AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box making complex things easy and hard things possible with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.
The Security Assurance Services 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 address 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 AWS Support is seeking a talented Assurance Consultant 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 helping 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 qualified who has the ability to handle a wide range of compliance requirements is willing to dive in to the details can translate those requirements into scalable solutions and is able to communicate at all levels within an organization.
Key job responsibilities
Expertise - Leads teams that include Amazonians partners and customers to enhance security assurance and compliance programs.
Solutions - Lead 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.
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
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- 8 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- Ability to obtain Canadian federal security clearance or valid Secret or Top Secret clearance.
- 5 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite S/4HANA SAP Business Warehouse SAP HANA SAP Business Objects etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA SAP Cloud Platform SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private
- Experience in SAP clean core design concepts including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI and data & analytics
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D; insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN ON Ottawa - 146000.00 - 211600.00 CAD annually