Manager, Security Engineering, AWS Security Incident Response
AmazonManager, Security Engineering, AWS Security Incident Response
AmazonLocation
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/16/2026
Compensation
$175,100 - $236,900 per year
Job description
The AWS Security Incident Response team is seeking a Security Manager to lead a regional team of security engineers through a transformation towards AI-native security operations. This role involves ensuring operational excellence, engaging with customer security executives, and driving improvements in automation and incident response. The team operates 24/7, providing critical security monitoring and response for AWS environments. The ideal candidate will blend technical expertise with leadership skills to enhance the team's effectiveness and customer trust.
Requirements
- 5+ years of managing and developing teams experience
- 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
- Experience establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across organizations
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Hands-on experience conducting or leading information security investigations during complex incidents
- Information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.)
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience triaging and developing security alerts and response automation
- Experience managing teams or experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals
- Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing operations environment
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operations across threat detection, triage, investigation, and incident response for a regional team of security engineers.
- Manage investigation queue health, enforce response time targets, and drive the team toward zero pending tickets at all times.
- Engage directly with customer security executives to communicate findings and lead post-incident reviews.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex or high-severity incidents.
- Drive the response-to-automation flywheel by capturing lessons from investigations to improve automation.
- Oversee how engineers work alongside AI investigation agents and maintain human-in-the-loop guarantees.
- Partner with peer managers across global time zones to maintain 24/7 coverage.
- Coach and develop security engineers, building a team culture that values root cause analysis.
Benefits
- Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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