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Your team will keep these systems secure, available, and scalable, and will automate operations so the security organization can move faster.\nYou will own your team's infrastructure and operations roadmap, including infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and system health. You'll work with software development, security engineering, program management, and Government counterparts to set priorities and deliver results. You will hire and develop strong engineers and build a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.\nThis position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.\nKey job responsibilities\n- Lead, hire, and develop a team of systems development engineers, and set clear goals and performance expectations.\n- Own the infrastructure and operations roadmap for security tooling, from design through deployment and sustainment.\n- Drive automation of infrastructure as code, configuration management, and deployment to reduce manual operational work.\n- Set operational excellence standards, including availability and health metrics, monitoring, alerting, and on-call health.\n- Partner with software development, security engineering, TPM, and Government stakeholders to prioritize work and remove blockers.\n- Report operational performance, risks, and results clearly to senior leadership.\nA day in the life\nYou start by reviewing overnight availability and health metrics with your team, then help an engineer through an infrastructure issue that's blocking a deployment. Mid-morning, you lead a design review for an automation change that will remove a manual maintenance task, and push the team to make it simpler and more reliable. You meet with the software development manager to line up infrastructure work with upcoming tooling releases. In the afternoon, you coach an engineer one-on-one, interview a candidate, and brief leadership on operational risk. Your team keeps critical security systems running on a classified program.\nAbout the team\nDiverse Experiences\nAmazon 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. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.\nWhy Amazon Security?\nAt 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. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.\nInclusive Team Culture\nIn Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.\nTraining & Career Growth\nWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.\nWork/Life Balance\nWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.\nBasic qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)\n- 3+ years of engineering team management experience\n- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience\n- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure\n- Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible\n- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI.\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience with AWS products and services\n- Experience operating security tooling or security infrastructure.\n- Experience leading engineering teams in classified or regulated environments.\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\nThe base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. 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