Assurance Solutions Architect, Aws Security Assurance Services

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Herndon, VA · Solutions Architect

This role is for an Assurance Solutions Architect within AWS Security Assurance Services. The primary focus is on helping enterprise customers design, build, and operate secure cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) as they migrate workloads and regulated data to the AWS cloud. The role involves understanding and addressing specific risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements, translating them into scalable solutions, and communicating with stakeholders at all levels. While the team works with generative AI innovation centers, this specific role is centered on security and compliance in the cloud, not on building or directly deploying AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Expertise – Delivers in teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs
  2. Solutions – 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. 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.
  4. Insights – 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

  • 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
  • 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
  • Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
  • 4+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
  • 4+ years experience assessing the security posture and producing evidence of control effectiveness in cloud environments
  • 4+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting NIST-based industry standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CMMC

Nice to have

  • 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
  • Clear understanding of Agile, CI/CD, DevOps approach and how they impact risk management and compliance
  • US government security clearance of top secret or above

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years experience assessing the security posture and producing evidence of control effectiveness in cloud environments
  • 4+ years experience advising customers on architectures meeting NIST-based industry standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CMMC
  • US government security clearance of top secret or above