Amazon
AWS Application Security Manager, AWS Proactive Security
$175K–$237K
Austin, TX · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years managing and developing teams; 5+ years of progressive work within a software security team or related operating environment.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
About the job
Leads an application security team responsible for security reviews, threat modeling, and penetration test coordination, while setting strategy and measuring security outcomes across an AWS portfolio.
What you'll do
- Lead, develop, and organize application security engineers, including recruiting and team composition.
- Set security strategy and evolve assurance processes; own security reviews, threat modeling, and penetration test coordination.
- Define outcome-focused metrics, drive cross-AWS initiatives, and communicate security results to leaders.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Knowledge of security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security; experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent.
Nice to have
- CCSP or CEH or CFR or Cloud+ or CySA+ or GCED or GICSP or PenTest+.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field; experience managing remote team members.
Pay
175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols, operating system security
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