Systems Development Manager, Amazon Foundational Security Services

About the role

Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS) is seeking a Systems Development Manager to join our Identity and Access Management team, where you'll build and maintain the automation and infrastructure that powers Amazon's Microsoft Entra ID environment at unprecedented scale.

In this role, you'll own the end-to-end application registration, approval, and deployment process, manage conditional access policies across multiple tenants, and develop configuration-as-code frameworks that enable hundreds of thousands of users to securely access Microsoft 365, Azure, and integrated cloud services worldwide.

Responsibilities

As a Systems Development Manager, you'll design and implement the systems that handle application registration workflows from request through approval to deployment, ensuring secure and compliant integrations with Entra ID.

Your work will include implementing automated approval workflows, managing service principal lifecycles, handling API permission grants and certificate management, and creating observability platforms that provide real-time visibility into registration status, policy enforcement, and tenant health.

You'll collaborate with business leaders and service teams to understand their Azure and Entra integration requirements, guide them through the app registration and approval process, and build secure solutions that meet their needs while maintaining compliance with security policies.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Design and implement end-to-end application registration, approval, and deployment workflows for Entra ID, including service principal creation, API permission grants, and certificate management
• Manage conditional access policy lifecycles across multiple tenants using configuration-as-code frameworks, including policy creation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance
• Build self-service automation and portals that streamline app registration requests while maintaining security standards, approval workflows, and audit trails
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions for deploying identity configurations with automated testing, validation, and consistent security baselines
• Collaborate with business leaders and service teams to build secure Azure and Entra integrations, guide them through registration processes, and create observability platforms for tenant health monitoring

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications include:

• 5+ years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
• 3+ years of managing system or software development teams experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience in systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading-edge IT organization
• Experience with Microsoft technologies such as Entra Id, app registrations, Azure, or Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Preferred Qualifications include:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience with Agile engineering practices (Kanban, continuous delivery, etc.)
• Experience with AWS platforms, services, and design patterns

About The Team

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. The base salary range for this position is $166,300.00 - $225,000.00 USD annually, and your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).