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Security Operations Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field. Australian professionals benefit from no annual cap and no lottery, making it straightforward to accept offers and file year-round.
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Leo Security is the team that protects Project Leo, Amazon's low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband initiative, spanning ground infrastructure, customer systems, and the software that operates our constellation. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response functions.
In this role you will own the programs that keep Leo's systems resilient against evolving threats. You will lead a team of security engineers and operations professionals, set the strategy for how we detect and respond to threats at scale, and drive measurable improvements to our security posture. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, dive deep into technical problems, and raise the bar for operational excellence across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable setting long-term strategy and leading the response to a high-severity event.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and scale the Security Operations function, including 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, triage, and threat hunting across ground and satellite control systems.
- Own the end-to-end Vulnerability Management (VM) program — asset discovery, scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting against service-level agreements (SLAs).
- Direct the Security Incident Response (SIR) program, including preparedness, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident Correction of Errors (COE) reviews.
- Define and report operational metrics and Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) that give leadership clear visibility into risk and program health.
- Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) through automation, tooling, and continuous runbook improvement.
- Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set clear goals, career paths, and a strong culture of ownership.
- Partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security into the development lifecycle and meet critical-security (CRIT-SEC) readiness requirements.
A day in the life
You start the day reviewing overnight detections and the vulnerability remediation queue with your operations leads, then join a WBR to walk senior leaders through risk trends and program metrics. Midday you dive deep with an incident responder on a high-severity investigation and unblock a remediation with a partner engineering team. In the afternoon you coach a manager on a hiring plan, review a detection-automation design, and set direction for the quarter's vulnerability-management priorities. This role is based on-site in Redmond, WA with the Leo Security team.
About the team
Leo Security protects Project Leo across all aspects of the business. From protecting customer data to satellite designs. We provide input on the design of ground stations, terminals, satellites, as well as the software that powers the network and customer management systems.
Diverse Experiences
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. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
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. 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.
Inclusive Team Culture
In 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.
Training & Career Growth
We’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.
Work/Life Balance
We 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.
We are a fast-growing team operating at the intersection of large-scale cloud systems and space technology, and we take pride in raising the security bar for one of Amazon's most ambitious initiatives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
- 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
- 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
- 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Experience with hands-on security engineering
- Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
- Experience in team management and building (including coaching and mentoring)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our 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.
The 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Location: USA, WA, Redmond - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Leo Security is the team that protects Project Leo, Amazon's low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband initiative, spanning ground infrastructure, customer systems, and the software that operates our constellation. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and Security Incident Response functions.
In this role you will own the programs that keep Leo's systems resilient against evolving threats. You will lead a team of security engineers and operations professionals, set the strategy for how we detect and respond to threats at scale, and drive measurable improvements to our security posture. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, dive deep into technical problems, and raise the bar for operational excellence across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable setting long-term strategy and leading the response to a high-severity event.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and scale the Security Operations function, including 24x7 monitoring, detection engineering, triage, and threat hunting across ground and satellite control systems.
- Own the end-to-end Vulnerability Management (VM) program — asset discovery, scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting against service-level agreements (SLAs).
- Direct the Security Incident Response (SIR) program, including preparedness, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident Correction of Errors (COE) reviews.
- Define and report operational metrics and Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) that give leadership clear visibility into risk and program health.
- Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) through automation, tooling, and continuous runbook improvement.
- Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team; set clear goals, career paths, and a strong culture of ownership.
- Partner with engineering, product, and compliance teams to embed security into the development lifecycle and meet critical-security (CRIT-SEC) readiness requirements.
A day in the life
You start the day reviewing overnight detections and the vulnerability remediation queue with your operations leads, then join a WBR to walk senior leaders through risk trends and program metrics. Midday you dive deep with an incident responder on a high-severity investigation and unblock a remediation with a partner engineering team. In the afternoon you coach a manager on a hiring plan, review a detection-automation design, and set direction for the quarter's vulnerability-management priorities. This role is based on-site in Redmond, WA with the Leo Security team.
About the team
Leo Security protects Project Leo across all aspects of the business. From protecting customer data to satellite designs. We provide input on the design of ground stations, terminals, satellites, as well as the software that powers the network and customer management systems.
Diverse Experiences
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. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
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. 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.
Inclusive Team Culture
In 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.
Training & Career Growth
We’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.
Work/Life Balance
We 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.
We are a fast-growing team operating at the intersection of large-scale cloud systems and space technology, and we take pride in raising the security bar for one of Amazon's most ambitious initiatives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of industry work with hands-on security engineering experience
- 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions experience
- 10+ years of team management and building (including coaching and mentoring) experience
- 10+ years of communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Experience with hands-on security engineering
- Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
- Experience in team management and building (including coaching and mentoring)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of information security risk-based prioritization
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience architecting, securing, and operating Amazon Web Services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our 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.
The 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Location: USA, WA, Redmond - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Security Operations Engineer
Translate your Australian certifications for U.S. employers
CREST ANZ credentials and AGSVA clearances don't map directly to U.S. equivalents. Frame them alongside CISSP, CEH, or CompTIA Security+ on your resume so hiring managers recognize their equivalency without extra explanation.
Target employers with active federal contracts
Defense contractors and federal IT services firms routinely sponsor E-3 visas for security operations roles because clearance-eligible candidates are scarce. Prioritize companies with GSA schedules or DoD contracts when building your target list.
Confirm the role qualifies before your first interview
Ask HR whether the position is classified as a specialty occupation under DOL guidelines. Hybrid roles blending general IT support with security duties sometimes fall outside E-3 eligibility, and confirming early prevents surprises at the LCA stage.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the full process
Once you have an offer, your employer needs to file an LCA with DOL before your consulate appointment can proceed. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so neither you nor your employer misses a step.
Prepare a degree equivalency letter before offers arrive
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted for E-3 eligibility, but some consular officers request a credential evaluation. Getting a NACES-member evaluation done in advance removes a common bottleneck from the offer-to-appointment timeline.
Check whether your employer needs E-Verify enrollment
If your role involves a STEM-designated function or your employer has federal contracts, E-Verify enrollment may already be required. Confirming enrollment status early matters because some employers don't realize it affects their ability to sponsor non-H-1B visas.
E-3 Visa Security Operations Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Security Operations Engineer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. Rather than filtering general job boards manually, Migrate Mate surfaces Security Operations Engineer openings from employers already familiar with the E-3 process, saving you from cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored the visa.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Security Operations Engineer role qualify as an E-3 specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, information security, or cybersecurity engineering. Roles focused primarily on Tier 1 alert monitoring without requiring a specific degree may not meet the specialty occupation threshold, so the job description wording matters when the employer files the LCA with DOL.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for Security Operations Engineer roles?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so your employer can file at any point during the year and you can start as soon as the visa is approved. H-1B registrations enter a lottery with limited slots each fiscal year, meaning most applicants wait until October 1 at the earliest. For security operations roles with urgent hiring timelines, the E-3's predictability is a practical advantage.
Can I switch employers after my E-3 is approved for a Security Operations Engineer position?
Yes, but the E-3 is employer-specific, so your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new visa stamp if you travel internationally before starting. You can begin working for the new employer once their LCA is certified and you have a valid status, but you cannot port the E-3 the way some other visas allow mid-petition transfers.