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Senior Assurance Consultant, AWS Security Assurance Services
Senior Assurance Consultant
Security Assurance Services (SAS) – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
About the Role
The Security Assurance Services (SAS) team at Amazon Web Services drives scalable security solutions for internal and external customers, ensuring seamless cloud adoption while delivering high-impact security outcomes.
We empower clients to operationalize the shared responsibility model as they transition to the cloud, helping leaders mitigate risk while leveraging scalable, automated security mechanisms.
As a Senior Assurance Consultant, you’ll play a pivotal role in:
- Expanding AWS’s Security Assurance practice
- Educating customers on how AWS’s product-led, people-powered services enable secure operations while ensuring compliance
- Guiding regulated enterprises through cloud migration, addressing risk, regulatory, and compliance challenges
- Collaborating across lines of business to shape the future of AWS’s security and compliance strategies
This is a customer-facing position, where success is measured by enabling workload migration, regulating data shifts, and achieving compliance objectives.
Key Responsibilities
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Expertise
- Lead cross-functional teams (Amazonians, partners, and customers) in enhancing security assurance and compliance programs
- Drive innovative compliance and risk management approaches, shaping how customers transition sensitive workloads to AWS
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Solutions
- Define architecture strategies aligned with industry standards (e.g., NIST 800-53, GDPR) to accelerate secure cloud adoption
- Translate complex compliance requirements into scalable solutions
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Delivery
- Translate customer compliance challenges into risk mitigation strategies via:
- Deep-dive technical discussions
- Strategic presentations & recommendations
- Hands-on compliance automation demonstrations
- Collaborate on resolving security assurance questions
- Translate customer compliance challenges into risk mitigation strategies via:
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Insights
- Bridge feedback from partners and customers to AWS engineering and business teams, influencing tech roadmapping
- Acting as a strategic advisor on compliance challenges in today’s cloud-first world
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Travel: Occasional on-site visits as part of customer engagements.
About the Team
At AWS, we thrive on diverse perspectives — whether you have a traditional background or an unconventional career path, we encourage all applicants to join us.
Be part of a team committed to innovation, where:
- Work-life balance is prioritized
- Diversity and inclusion drive a culture where everyone’s contributions matter
- Professional growth is nurtured through mentorship and resource sharing
- Flexibility allows for both hybrid and In-office collaboration
Basic Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Information Security, or related fields
- Proven expertise in:
- Information security & compliance
- Risk management & internal audit, including:
- Conducting risk assessments and audits
- Designing controls within enterprise frameworks
- Prioritizing and managing risks
- 3+ years of experience in:
- Advising customers on cloud architectures meeting NIST 800-53, GDPR, or other regulatory standards
- Scalable systems experience: Architectures built for performance, reliability, and security
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Preferred Qualifications
Technical & Professional Certifications
- Credentialed risk, audit, or compliance professionals (CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA)
- Security assessments & auditing experience, including:
- Networking, OS, application security
- IT process auditing
- Cloud Security & DevOps expertise, including:
- Understanding Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps impact on risk and compliance
- Familiarity with cloud-native scalable security frameworks
- Advanced credentials: CISSP, CISM, or equivalent technical certifications
- Strategic thinking skills: Ability to integrate business, product, and technical challenges
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent (or applicable field experience)
Join us to shape the future of trusted cloud computing.
Candidate Considerations
- Job Type: Hybrid
- Enrollment Status: Full-time permanent
- Location: United States, virtual first with periodic onsite presence
- Department: AWS Services
- Team Identities: SAS – Security Assurance Services
Amazon is committed to equal opportunity and prohibits discrimination or harassment based on any protected characteristic. (Note: This role’s equal opportunity statement was abbreviated for clarity.)
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