AWS Security Assurance Services, Practice Manager, UAE, AWS Security Assurance Services

OverviewThe Global Services, Security (GSS) 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 Security, Governance, Risk, and Compliance leader who can build a team that addresses 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 GSS, is seeking a talented Practice Manager 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 developing a high performing team of consultants who help enable our customers in moving their workloads and regulated data into the cloud by addressing specific risk, regulatory, and compliance requirements. You will be expected to also work in a Business Development capacity, assisting our AWS sellers to position the value and applicability of your team into customer projects and long-term relationships. We are looking for an innovative security and compliance leader who enjoys establishing strategy and then drives consensus across the team to achieve a vision.Key job responsibilitiesExpertise - Builds teams that deliver on innovative governance, risk, compliance and security objectivesSolutions - Builds a team that can define security, 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 security and compliance objectives 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.Relationships - Build long-lasting customer relationships with strategic stakeholders, supporting the Business Development and Customer Success efforts of AWS Security Assurance Services.About the teamAWS Global Services 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.Basic Qualifications10+ years of IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in customer-facing roles experience3+ years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experienceBachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related fieldKnowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challengesExperience in IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in a customer-facing roleExperience in program or engagement management, leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projectsExperience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architectureExperience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projectsPreferred QualificationsKnowledge of enterprise IT management frameworks like COBIT or ITILExperience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)Experience with customer relationship management, especially C-suite level customer engagementExperience with design