Senior Privacy Consultant , AWS Security Assurance Services

Job summary
The AWS Security Assurance Services (AWS SAS) team works with our largest enterprise customers to address their privacy compliance requirements using cloud native technology, while adopting scalable security and risk control measures across their infrastructure. Are you excited by the possibility of using automation and event driven computing to achieve continuous compliance? Do you want to dive deeper into cloud technology, while redefining traditional security measures? Are you interested in applying your assessment and advisory skills to workloads that use emerging technologies in new and interesting ways?

At AWS SAS, we are hiring technical privacy experts with a background in security and compliance to lead a variety of customer focused engagements that include architecture and compliance guidance. This role will specialize in privacy advisory work for well-known frameworks, standards and regulations as well as risk management methodologies. You will pioneer technically excellent privacy solutions supporting customer initiatives that are meaningful to their business. Building on those experiences you’ll collaborate AWS service teams on new features, innovate with new technologies and explore new challenges.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organization—leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.




Key job responsibilities
• Expertise - Lead teams to help partners and customers understand the opportunities for cloud technology to handle privacy requirements in key market verticals and regulated industries, such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and energy.

• Solutions: Scope and lead on-site engagements with partners and customers. This includes leading pre-sales conversations, understanding customer security and compliance requirements to propose, build, and deliver packaged offerings or custom solution engagements.

• Delivery: Engagements include short on-site projects leading to architecture or compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, etc. Engagements will include assessments and reporting on various aspects of a customer's security and compliance posture.

• Insights: Collaborate with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.




A day in the life
This role requires privacy thought leaders that understand how to leverage deep technical skills in solving complex problems with our largest AWS customers.


About the team
The AWS SAS team is a team of technical leaders solving compliance challenges for customers as they adopt AWS services. A team of innovative builders bridging the gap between the technical implementation and the control requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
• 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
• 7+ years of consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions experience
• 5+ years of software development with object oriented language experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience

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