Assurance Consultant, Aws Security Assurance Services

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, ON +1 · Administrative Support

This role is for an Assurance Consultant within AWS Security Assurance Services. The primary focus is on helping enterprise customers design, build, and operate secure cloud environments on AWS, with a strong emphasis on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). The consultant will advise customers on meeting regulatory and compliance objectives, operationalizing the shared responsibility model, and demonstrating assurance for compliance in the cloud. While the role operates within AWS, which offers AI services, the core responsibilities are centered on security, compliance, and risk management for cloud workloads, not on building or directly implementing AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Delivers in teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs
  2. Work with 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Work with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
  5. Ability to travel to customer sites as needed.

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
  • 4+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
  • 2+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting NIST-based industry standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CMMC
  • 2+ years experience assessing the security posture and producing evidence of control effectiveness in cloud environments

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of IT implementation experience
  • degree in advanced technology, or AWS Professional level certification
  • Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
  • Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
  • Experience in performing security assessments and information system audits of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes

What the JD emphasized

  • compliance requirements
  • risk
  • security assurance
  • compliance