Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
The Security Assurance Services (SAS) team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) builds scalable security solutions for internal and external customers to drive business outcomes. Our mission is to secure the world's workloads and build a brighter future by delivering bar-raising security outcomes and investing in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers. The AWS Security Assurance Services team partners with large enterprise customers to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they migrate to the cloud.

We are seeking a talented Senior Assurance Consultant to expand the Security Assurance practice and educate customers on how our product-led, people-powered services help operate their business securely on AWS while demonstrating compliance assurance. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, cybersecurity, and compliance, engaging with multiple lines of business and diverse security and compliance use cases.

This is a customer-facing role where success is measured by enabling customers to move workloads and regulated data into the cloud by addressing risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements. You will lead teams including Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs, define innovative compliance and risk management approaches, and deliver strategic presentations and hands-on demonstrations of automating compliance in the AWS environment.

You will also collaborate with AWS engineering, support, and business teams to provide partner and customer feedback that informs AWS technology roadmaps. Occasional travel to customer sites may be required.

Amazon values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We offer a flexible hybrid work model near Amazon offices to support innovation and collaboration.

Experience
- Minimum 3 years advising customers on architectures meeting industry standards and regulations such as NIST 800-53 and GDPR
- Experience in information security and compliance
- 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 with understanding of scalability, performance, and reliability design

About You
- Innovative security/compliance professional able to handle a wide range of compliance requirements
- Strong communicator capable of engaging at all organizational levels
- Willingness to dive into details and translate requirements into scalable solutions
- Ability to lead teams and collaborate across multiple stakeholders
- Comfortable with occasional travel to customer sites

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security, or related fields
- Preferred certifications: CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA, CISSP, CISM or equivalent risk, audit, or compliance credentials
- Experience performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, and IT processes
- Clear understanding of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps approaches and their impact on risk management and compliance
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Information Security or equivalent experience is a plus