Senior Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services (Ottawa)

Overview

AWS 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.

You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

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 world’s 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 helps 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 professional 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 cutting‑edge 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 and in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative / Agentic AI and data & analytics

Compensation and Locations

The base salary range for this position is listed below.

CAN, BC, Vancouver – 146,000.00 – 211,600.00 CAD annually

CAN, ON, Ottawa – 146,000.00 – 211,600.00 CAD annually

CAN, ON, Toronto – 146,000.00 – 211,600.00 CAD annually

Benefits

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.