The Global Services, Security (GSS) 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 (AWS SAS) team works with our largest enterprise customers to address their security and compliance requirements using cloud native technology, while adopting scalable security and risk control measures across their infrastructure. Are you excited by the possibility of using automation and event driven computing to achieve continuous compliance? Do you want to dive deeper into cloud technology, while redefining traditional security measures? Are you interested in applying your assessment and advisory skills to workloads that use emerging technologies in new and interesting ways?
At AWS SAS, we are hiring technical security experts with a background in security assessments to lead a variety of customer focused engagements that include architecture and compliance guidance. You will also work with industry and standards bodies to further the creation of security guidance that leverages the advantages of cloud technology. This role will specialize in assessments and advisory work for well-known security frameworks, standards and regulations as well as risk management methodologies.
This is a customer facing role where success is measured by developing a high performing team of consultants who help enable our customers in moving their workloads and regulated data into the cloud by addressing specific risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements. You will be expected to also support our Business Development team, positioning our AWS sellers to position the value and applicability of your team into customer projects and long-term relationships.
We are looking for an innovative security and compliance leader who enjoys establishing team strategy and then drives consensus across the team to achieve a vision.
Key job responsibilities
Expertise - Lead technical teams to help partners and customers understand the opportunities for cloud technology to handle security and compliance requirements in key market verticals and regulated industries, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and energy.
Solutions – Support in scoping of and lead on-site engagements with partners and customers. This includes leading pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements, and delivering packaged offerings or custom solution engagements.
Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects leading to architecture or compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, etc. Engagements will include assessments and reporting on various aspects of a customer's security and compliance posture.
Insights - Collaborate with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
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- Experience in information security and compliance
- Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or experience in IT Security
- CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification, or Associate's degree or above
- Experience implementing scalable compliance solutions (technology, procedures, processes, etc.) in a regulated environment
- Experience in creating fully automated solutions
- Experience in one or more of the following domains: access- control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
- Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience in risk assessment and enabling organizations to make security decisions
- Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
- Experience in application security architecture, security code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure
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