Canada Security Assurance Lead, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

AWS is seeking a Security Assurance Specialist who will drive the strategy that enables every customer in every sector of Canada. This position is based in Ottawa ON and will require travel to cover special projects.

If you have a deep understanding of security privacy and resilience and you are passionate about building and sustaining trust with our customers then this role is for you.

You will think big and have long-term strategic thinking accountable for security assurance of AWS services in your region but you will sustain a bias for action and attention to detail that drives continuous rapid improvement. You will have a desire to learn and understand the complexities of legal regulatory and compliance requirements across all sectors of your region. You will be interested in understanding regulatory complexities and compliance requirements and translate to teams in engineering operations audit public policy legal and sales.

You recognize that success and value in security is measured by the pace of innovation and the safe management of risk. You will aspire to change the experience of security assurance to be more valuable and frictionless for all of our customers.

You will be comfortable supporting engagements with regulators and customer auditors architects security officers lawyers and policy-makers. You will be proficient in understanding the diverse needs of regulators and government assurance agencies. You will put the customer first working at the center of an extended team of specialists program managers and engineers who are together working to earn and sustain the trust of our customers.

You will have a good understanding of cloud technologies experience in security assurance and demonstrated success in driving innovative strategies to overcome obstacles.

If you are ready to bring all your experience energy and talent to transform how security assurance in the cloud is experienced by our customers in the region then we would like to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
Serve as regulatory security expert to AWS customers auditors and regulators on regional and domestic regulations on outsourcing cybersecurity and operational resilience.
Work with public policy to analyze initiatives for laws and regulations for potential impact on AWS and our customers and develop appropriate mitigation and implementation approaches.
Develop and execute long-term regulatory projects and initiatives which may have broad scope and complexity for AWS and AWS customers.
Identify potential regulatory trends in the region.
Create optimize and support cross-functional groups and projects.
Develop thought leadership material on cloud and emerging technologies for regulators and internal customers.
Manage tight deadlines and drive for results while being extremely detail orientated.

A day in the life
On a daily basis you will:

Work with extended teams when interacting with regulatory bodies.
Analise and perform compliance impact assessments
Deliver presentations to regulatory bodies and customers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why Amazon Security
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Work/Life Balance
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- Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cybersecurity or other related discipline
- 6 years of working directly with government officials and regulatory bodies experience
- 5 years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks identity and access controls incident response mobile security cloud computing and security AI security threat intelligence and penetration testing experience
- 6 years of design program management experience

- Experience communicating to senior management and customers verbally and in writing
- Experience in any combination of the following: application security frameworks security code reviews incident response secure infrastructure penetration testing mobile security cloud security AI security identity and access controls threat modeling cryptography threat intelligence or secure software development
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security privacy SOX HIPAA etc.)
- Experience working with sensitive or classified systems of government.

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