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

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch); Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in Greater London is seeking a Practice Manager for its Security Assurance Services team. The role focuses on building a high-performing team that addresses customer security and compliance challenges during cloud migration. The right candidate will have significant experience in IT security, risk management, and compliance, along with the ability to lead and inspire teams. This position offers opportunities to impact significant security outcomes while working collaboratively within the broader AWS organization.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Mentorship and career growth

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading teams in IT security and compliance.
• 3+ years advising on NIST-based architectures.
• Experience with enterprise risk management methods.

Responsibilities

• Build technical teams for governance and security objectives.
• Resolve security assurance questions and manage risk.
• Lead efforts conveying customer feedback to engineering.

Skills

Leadership in IT security

Risk management

Compliance expertise

Cloud architecture understanding

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related

Job description

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 team works with our largest enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud. Are you a Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance leader who can build a team that addresses 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 GSS, is seeking a talented Practice Manager 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 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 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 and project strategy and then drives consensus across the team to achieve a vision.

Key job responsibilities

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

Solutions - Builds a technical 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 – 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.

Ability to travel to customer sites as needed.

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

About the team

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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years’ experience in leading teams within IT security, compliance and risk management, data privacy, or security controls.
• 3+ years’ experience advising customers on architectures meeting NIST-based industry standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CMMC.
• 3+ years’ experience with enterprise risk management methods
• 3+ years’ experience assessing the security posture and producing evidence of control effectiveness in cloud environments
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes.
• Experience with Agile, CI / CD, DevOps approach and how they impact risk management and compliance.
• Audit certification such as Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)CMMC certification such as CMMC CCP
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Use of attack and threat modeling techniques to inform enterprise risk
• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience.