Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

Amazon Inc.; Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, München; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect for AWS Security Assurance Services to guide security and compliance across enterprise workloads in cloud environments. The role focuses on translating regulatory requirements into scalable, customer-ready solutions and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.

You will engage with customers, partners, and AWS teams to drive security assurances, adopt risk-based controls, and demonstrate ongoing compliance while enabling rapid

Qualifications

• Experience in information security and compliance.
• Experience securing cloud software services.
• Experience advising customers on architectures meeting industry standards (NIST 800-53, GDPR).
• Security certifications (CISSP, CISA, CISM, etc.) or GIAC/Security+ preferred.
• Bachelor’s or higher in CS, Engineering, Information Security or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to enhance security assurance and compliance programs for customers and partners.
• Define innovative compliance and risk management approaches to help customers move sensitive workloads to the cloud.
• Address security assurance questions and manage risk while operating in the AWS Cloud with demonstrations of automating compliance.
• Collaborate with AWS engineering and business teams to feed customer feedback into roadmaps.
• Travel to customer sites as needed.

Skills

Security architecture

Compliance

Risk management

Cloud security

Engagement leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

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 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 is seeking a talented Senior Security Assurance Solution Architect 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

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.

Requirements

• Experience in information security and compliance
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security or other related fields
• Experience in risk management and internal audit including: performing risk assessments and audits, designing controls, managing enterprise control frameworks, and prioritizing risk
• Experience securing cloud software services and understanding design for scalability, performance and reliability
• 3+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting industry standards and regulations such as NIST 800-53 and GDPR.
• CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA or equivalent risk, audit, or compliance credentials
• Experience in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+
• Experience in performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult your Privacy Notice ( https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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