Amazon

Senior Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

Amazon$153K — $207K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in technology domains like software development, cloud computing, and security.
  • 3+ years of experience in design, implementation, or consulting of applications and infrastructures.
  • 10+ years of IT development or consulting experience within the software or Internet industries.
  • 5+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking.
  • Familiarity with SAP systems architecture and infrastructure needs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams to enhance security assurance and compliance programs for clients.
  • Develop innovative compliance and risk management strategies that facilitate cloud migration.
  • Engage with clients to resolve security assurance inquiries while ensuring compliance within the AWS Cloud.
  • Collaborate with engineering and business teams to integrate customer feedback into AWS service improvements.
  • Travel to customer locations as required to support engagements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) matching to support retirement savings.
  • Paid time off and parental leave to promote work-life balance.
  • Access to mental health and wellness programs, including EAP.
  • Flexible spending accounts available for healthcare and dependent care expenses.
Full Job Description
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 helps 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

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. Diverse Experiences AWS 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, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.

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

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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also 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.

USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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