Security Operations Centre Manager , AWS Security

Security Operations Centre Manager , AWS Security

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualised infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses, from start-ups to enterprises, run their operations and applications on AWS’ multi‑tenant infrastructure.

AWS is looking for an exceptional Security Operations Centre (SOC) Manager, to work in a team of technical and non‑technical experts, with experience in building and developing teams that excel, as well as experience in improving processes and response to events through automation and efficiencies.

You will own and develop a team of high performing security engineers and incident responders to support UK customers and their cloud workloads. You’ll work in a high pace, high visibility environment to execute the team’s mission and continue to raise the security bar for our customers. You will have visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS including interaction with CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.

You will be working within a broader team of industry‑leading security experts working with UK customers to operate and continuously improve industry‑leading security programs and processes. This broader team manages the underlying security programs and processes for personnel security, physical and logical accreditation, education, awareness and training and assurance.

This role will contribute to the development of the team, at a high pace, in a high visibility environment, to execute the team’s vision. We’re looking for an experienced and self‑motivated candidate who can prioritise well and can communicate clearly and compellingly.

This Security Operations Centre Manager will have a broad and deep technical knowledge, specifically in the fields of operating system security, network security, cryptography, software security, malware analysis, forensics, security operations, incident response, and emergent security intelligence.

• Provide leadership, strategy and direction to the operational team for security operations for the UK region.
• Build, develop and maintain SOC policies, procedures and processes that enable an effective and efficient region.
• Ensure information and security data is continuously collected, correlated and analysed to detect external and internal threats and vulnerabilities to our services.
• Gather evidence, evaluate risk and deliver a plan to respond to contain and remove security threats as quickly and safely as possible.
• Define and review key security performance indicators that ensure service delivery and service improvements.
• Ensure integration and handover of new security services within the monitoring and detection capability.
• Develop and create reports for management updates and escalations using key program performance metrics.
• Optimise tools and processes that prepare the SOC to respond to security threats of the future.
• Engage with AWS colleagues and customer leadership teams on a regular basis.

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