AWS Security Assurance Services, Practice Manager, UAE, AWS Security Assurance Services

Amazon Web Services EMEA Dubai FZ Branch; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company in Dubai is seeking a professional with extensive experience in IT consulting and project management to drive governance and security initiatives. The candidate will build teams, engage customers, and lead compliance efforts in the AWS Cloud environment. Strong experience in enterprise architecture and stakeholder engagement is essential. The role involves traveling to customer sites as needed and collaborating across AWS teams to enhance customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT consulting/management experience.
• 3+ years leading project managers in multi-project programs.
• Knowledge of IaaS transition challenges.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and large-scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Build teams to deliver governance, risk, compliance, and security.
• Define security and compliance approaches for customer workloads.
• Engage in resolving security assurance questions and managing risks.
• Lead insights gathering from customer feedback for AWS roadmaps.
• Develop long-lasting relationships with strategic stakeholders.

Skills

IT consulting

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Compliance objectives

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Overview

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.

Key job responsibilities

Expertise – Builds teams that deliver on innovative governance, risk, compliance and security objectives

Solutions – Builds a team that can define security, 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 security and compliance objectives 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.

Relationships – Build long-lasting customer relationships with strategic stakeholders, supporting the Business Development and Customer Success efforts of AWS Security Assurance Services.

Ability to travel to customer sites as needed

About the team

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of IT consulting / management with IT Transformation in customer-facing roles experience
• 3+ years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges
• Experience in IT consulting / management with IT Transformation in a customer-facing role
• Experience in program or engagement management, leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects
• Experience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture
• Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of enterprise IT management frameworks like COBIT or ITIL
• Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
• Experience with customer relationship management, especially C-suite level customer engagement
• Experience with design of modern, scalable delivery models for technology consulting services

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