About the Role
The Security Assurance Services (SAS) team, a part of Amazon Web Services, leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes. Our goal of securing the world’s workloads and building a brighter future for humanity requires us to focus on reliable delivery of bar‑raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers.
The AWS Security Assurance Services team works with our largest enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud. We seek a talented Senior Assurance Consultant to help expand the Security Assurance practice and educate our customers on how our product‑led, people‑powered services helps operate their business securely on AWS while also demonstrating assurance that compliance objectives can be achieved.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs.
- Lead a team to define innovative compliance and risk management approaches to customers that help the customer understand how to move sensitive workloads onto the cloud faster.
- Engage to resolve security assurance questions and understand how to manage risk and achieve compliance while operating in the AWS Cloud through deep‑dive discussions, strategic presentations/recommendations, and hands‑on demonstrations of automating compliance in the AWS environment.
- Lead efforts with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
- Travel to customer sites as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security or other related fields.
- Experience in information security and compliance.
- Experience in risk management and internal audit including performing risk assessments and audits, designing controls, managing enterprise control frameworks, and prioritizing risk.
- Experience securing cloud software services and understanding design for scalability, performance, and reliability.
- 3+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting industry standards and regulations such as NIST 800‑53 and GDPR.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA or equivalent risk, audit, or compliance credentials.
- Experience performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes.
- Clear understanding of Agile, CI/CD, DevOps approach and how they impact risk management and compliance.
- Technical security certification such as CISSP or CISM.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience.
Legal
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.
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