Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

The Security Assurance Services (SAS) team, a part of Amazon Web Services, leverages 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.

We are seeking a talented Senior Security Assurance Solution Architect to help expand the Security Assurance practice and educate customers on how our product‑led, people‑powered services help operate their business securely on AWS while demonstrating that compliance objectives can be achieved.

This customer‑facing role measures success by enabling customers to move workloads and regulated data into the cloud by addressing specific risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

• Key Job Responsibilities
• Lead 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 that help customers understand how to move sensitive workloads onto the cloud faster.
• Engage in resolving security‑assurance questions and understanding 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.
• Basic Qualifications
• Experience in information security and compliance.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security, or other related fields.
• 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 of 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 in Agile methodologies and Dev Ops practices.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+.
• Experience performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, and auditing IT processes.
• 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.

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