Principal Threat Intelligence Manager, AWS Region Services
About the role
AWS Region Services is looking for a Senior Threat Intelligence Manager 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. You will champion AWS' engagements to ensure operational effectiveness and alert fidelity, while continuously identifying gaps and managing improvements in security response processes, technologies, and monitoring. Working closely with 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 lifecycle.
Key job responsibilities
- Identify, define, and mitigate threats to AWS by liaising with the intelligence community, security researchers, and international partners
- Build and grow a massively scalable Threat Management and Incident Response service core to all AWS users
- Own the definition of best practices for cybersecurity during the software development lifecycle used by engineers, including design, implementation, testing, and operational characteristics
- Work as part of cross-functional teams to develop secure and scalable solutions for customers both domestically and internationally
- Obtain and maintain relationships within the global intelligence and security community to provide early threat intelligence capabilities
- Communicate with influential customers to explain AWS incident response and threat mitigation capabilities
- Ensure detailed operational metrics and support for your team
What you'll be expected to do
- 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
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Pay
Base salary range: $142,000 - $248,400 USD annually (Herndon, VA). Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave