Senior Security Operations Lead: VM & IR

Amazon Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo Security is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response for Project Leo. You will scale 24x7 monitoring, drive risk-based prioritization, and coordinate containment and recovery during incidents.

This on-site role is based in Redmond, WA and requires deep technical and leadership experience. You will define metrics, lead a team of engineers, and partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
• 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience.
• 10+ years of team management and building (coaching and mentoring) experience.
• 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Security Operations function, including 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, triage, and threat hunting across ground and satellite control systems.
• Own the end-to-end Vulnerability Management (VM) program — asset discovery, scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting against service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Direct the Security Incident Response (SIR) program, including preparedness, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident Correction of Errors (COE) reviews.
• Define and report operational metrics and Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) that give leadership clear visibility into risk and program health.
• Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) through automation, tooling, and continuous runbook improvement.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set clear goals, career paths, and a strong culture of ownership.
• Partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security into the development lifecycle and meet critical-security (CRIT-SEC) readiness requirements.

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Team leadership

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Leo Security is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response for Project Leo. You will scale 24x7 monitoring, drive risk-based prioritization, and coordinate containment and recovery during incidents.

This on-site role is based in Redmond, WA and requires deep technical and leadership experience. You will define metrics, lead a team of engineers, and partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security