Practice Manager, AWS Security Assurance Services

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 worlds 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 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.
We are looking for an innovative security/compliance leader who enjoys establishing strategy and then drives consensus across the team to achieve a vision.

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design build operate and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services upskill with AWS Training and Certification optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners AWS Sovereign Cloud AWS International Product and the Generative AI Innovation Center. Youll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

Key job responsibilities
- Expertise Builds teams that deliver on innovative governance risk and compliance objectives
- Solutions - Builds a team that can define 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
AWS Security Assurance Services LLC a PCI-QSAC (Payment Card Industry-Qualified Security Assessor company) and HITRUST External Assessor Firm is a team of industry certified assessors helping our customers achieve maintain and automate compliance in the cloud by tying together applicable audit standards to AWS service specific features and functionality.
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- 10 years of IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in customer-facing roles experience
- 3 years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Math or a related field
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges
- Experience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture

- Knowledge of enterprise IT management frameworks like COBIT or ITIL
- Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g. Microsoft IBM Oracle HP SAP)
- Experience with customer relationship management especially C-suite level customer engagement
- Experience with design of modern scalable delivery models for technology consulting services

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $152100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.