Senior Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

Job summary

The role involves leading teams to define innovative compliance and risk management approaches for enterprise customers migrating to the AWS cloud. You will act as a consultant to resolve security assurance questions and enable customers to operate securely while meeting regulatory requirements.

Job details

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset. The 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 leader 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 Assurance Consultant to help the expansion of 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 - Leads teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs. • Solutions - 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. • 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 - Lead efforts 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. About the team Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud. Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Basic Qualifications: - 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience - 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience - 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience - Ability to obtain Canadian federal security clearance, or valid Secret or Top Secret clearance. Preferred Qualifications: - 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience - Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs - Experience working with end user or developer communities - Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners - Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private - Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI, and data & analytics Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations [https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations] for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status. CAN, ON, Ottawa - 146,000.00 - 211,600.00 CAD annually

What you’ll do

The role involves leading teams to define innovative compliance and risk management approaches for enterprise customers migrating to the AWS cloud. You will act as a consultant to resolve security assurance questions and enable customers to operate securely while meeting regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Candidates must have over 10 years of IT development or consulting experience and at least 8 years in specific technology domains like cloud computing or security. The ability to obtain Canadian federal security clearance is a mandatory requirement.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Prescription insurance
• Basic life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan
• Paid time off

Listed skills

• Compliance · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Amazon Web Services · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Cloud security
• Compliance
• Risk management
• Governance
• Infrastructure architecture
• Security assurance
• AWS
• Enterprise risk management
• Automation
• Consulting
• SAP systems
• Networking
• Data & analytics
• Strategic presentations
• Stakeholder management
• Database Architecture
• Ingenuity
• Agentic AI
• Infrastructure Architecture
• SAP S/4HANA
• Relationship Management
• Security Solutions
• Curiosity
• Time Off Management
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
• Top Secret Clearance
• Infrastructure Security
• Amazon Web Services
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Assurance Services
• SAP Business Suite
• Investments
• Customer Service
• Cloud Computing
• Cyber Security
• Engineering Support
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Scalability
• Innovation
• Risk Management
• Medical Prescription
• Mentorship
• Presentations
• Technology Roadmaps
• Restricted Stock
• SAP Applications
• SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
• SAP HANA
• Security Clearance

Job areas

• Technology
• Security & Safety
• Consulting
• Software
• Management & Leadership
• Assurance Services Manager
• Chief Information Security Officer
• Information and Communications Technology Service Managers
• Computer and Information Systems Managers

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