Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

About the role

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 are seeking a talented Assurance Consultant to help expand the Security Assurance practice and educate our customers on how our product-led, people-powered services help operate their business 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 job responsibilities

• Expertise – Delivers in teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs
• Solutions – 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
• Delivery – Engagements will require working to resolve security assurance questions and to 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
• Insights – Work with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps
• Ability to travel to customer sites as needed

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3)
• 4+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• 4+ years experience assessing the security posture and producing evidence of control effectiveness in cloud environments
• 4+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting NIST-based industry standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CMMC

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
• Experience in 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
• US government security clearance of top secret or above

About the team

AWS Security Assurance Services LLC, a PCI-QSAC (Payment Card Industry-Qualified Security Assessor company) and HITRUST External Assessor Firm, is a team of industry certified assessors, helping our customers achieve, maintain, and automate compliance in the cloud by tying together applicable audit standards to AWS service specific features and functionality.

Pay

Base salary range varies by location. Compensation package also includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

USA, GA, Atlanta – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York – 144,500.00 - 195,400.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville – 124,700.00 - 168,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, AUSTIN – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, DALLAS – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, HOUSTON – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Houston – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle – 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

Benefits

Amazon 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.

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