Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

The AWS Security Assurance Services 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. Are you a Governance, Risk, and Compliance professional who can address the challenges of migrating systems and workloads to the cloud? Are you skilled at helping executives address their enterprise risk management requirements using highly scalable computing architectures?

The AWS Security Assurance Service team, within AWS Support, is seeking a talented Security Assurance Solutions Architect to help the expansion of the Security Assurance practice and educate our customers on how our product‑led, people‑powered services help operate their businesses securely on AWS while also demonstrating assurance that compliance objectives can be achieved. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute at the intersection of cloud, cyber security, and compliance. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple lines of business, and learn from (and contribute to) a variety of security and compliance use cases. This is a customer‑facing role where success is measured by helping enable our customers in moving their workloads and regulated data into the cloud by addressing specific risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

We are looking for an innovative security/compliance professional who has the ability to handle a wide range of compliance requirements, is willing to dive in to the details, can translate those requirements into scalable solutions, and is able to communicate at all levels within an organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver in teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs.
• Work with 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.
• 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.
• Work 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.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in risk management and internal audit including performing risk assessments and audits, designing controls, managing enterprise control frameworks, and prioritizing risk.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security, or other related fields.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA).
• 2+ years of experience advising customers on architectures meeting industry standards and regulations such as NIST 800‑53 and GDPR.
• Experience in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other security certification, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler), GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials), or Security+.
• CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA, or equivalent risk, audit, or compliance credentials.
• Experience in performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

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