Principal Threat Intelligence Manager, AWS Region Services

Amazon • Herndon, VA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you excited at the prospect of keeping millions of customers’ data safe? Do you want to help secure government data and operations at scale within the cloud? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s leading cloud provider, delivering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. Information security is an integral part of AWS’ corporate culture. It is essential to maintaining our position as a leader in cloud computing, which is why AWS has made it a priority to create top-tier threat intelligence operations and incident response teams to defend our customers against evolving threats. If you would like to join a company where security is truly job zero, where you can work with like-minded peers who are passionate about the art & science of cyber defense, and where you can use state of the art tools for maximum impact, then we have a home for you. The AWS Region Services team is looking for a Senior Threat Intelligence Manager who is passionate about risk management, strategic thinking and navigating complex international interactions. As an expert in the Global Intelligence Community, you will be responsible for helping to facilitate AWS’ customer interactions, providing cyber response subject matter expertise and cyber threat advice, while collaborating and liaising with customers in the international cleared community. In this role you will champion AWS’ engagements, to ensure operational effectiveness and alert fidelity. In addition, you will be responsible for continuously identifying gaps and manage the improvements in security response process, technologies, and monitoring. Working closely with the AWS Security, Infrastructure, and Service teams, the Intelligence Community and Defense Industrial Base, you will ensure cyber-defense requirements are identified and communicated from the earliest moments in the project life-cycle. You are a leader, builder and operator. You have experience leading multiple, simultaneous efforts and/or IT projects and initiatives. You are able to balance technical leadership and are savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology. You’ll strive for simplicity and will demonstrate significant creativity. This position requires the candidate must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above
• Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross-functional teams
• 10+ years of building and leading large teams and working in matrixed operating structures
• Experience in strategic thinking about business, enterprise software products, and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of managing and developing high performance teams
• 5 + Years experience within the US Intelligence Community as a senior team member
• 5+ Years experience in dealing with other intelligence community partners

Responsibilities

• Identify, define and mitigate threats to AWS by liaising with the intelligence community, security researchers and international partners.
• Building and growing a massively scalable Threat Management and Incident Response service that is core to all of AWS’ users.
• Owning the definition of best practices as it pertains to cyber security during the software development lifecycle used by engineers, including design, implementation, testing, and operational characteristics.
• Working as part of cross-functional teams to develop secure and scalable solutions for our customers both domestically and internationally.
• Obtaining and maintaining relationships within the global intelligence and security community to provide early threat intelligence capabilities
• Communicating with influential customers to both explain AWS incident response and threat mitigation capabilities.
• Ensure detailed operational metrics and support for your team
• Own a very large program.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.
• Exert subject matter expertise and influence over multiple teams, increasing their security by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior