Security Governance, Risk and Assurance Manager, Security Governance, Risk and Assurance Manager

Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, offering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, and messaging services to customers worldwide. AWS operates a globally distributed environment at massive scale. From startups to enterprises, businesses run their operations and applications on AWS's multi tenant infrastructure.

AWS is looking for an exceptional Security Governance, Risk and Assurance Manager to join a team of technical and non technical experts. This team manages the underlying security programs and processes for personnel security, insider risk, physical security system design, accreditations, education, awareness, training, information assurance, and program security. The position provides visibility at senior levels of government agencies, commercial institutions, and AWS senior leadership.

You will work with Infrastructure, Networking, Security and AWS Service teams to build new AWS regions and maintain standards and accreditation of existing regions. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to assess risks, anticipate issues, help overcome technical obstacles, make trade off decisions, and balance business needs with technical constraints.

• Identify and manage physical, information and insider security risks, continually reviewing mitigation strategies.
• Implement and maintain frameworks to protect information and physical assets in alignment with AWS standards and customer requirements, such as Information Security and Insider Threat Protection Frameworks.
• Implement classification and handling guidelines, ensuring key stakeholders understand their roles and responsibilities in protecting AWS and customer information.
• Ensure security best practices are implemented and can scale to new demands.
• Triage and manage information security incidents, ensuring lessons learned are identified and used as preventive measures.
• Identify high risk information, assets and systems, ensuring security controls are in place and effective.
• Ensure security best practices are flowed down through the supply chain.
• Where relevant, develop specific policies and/or processes as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in Auditing, Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field.
• Experience driving security programs across large diverse organizations.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to support assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.
• Ability to thrive in a high energy environment where strategic and tactical activities are driven in parallel.
• Excellent business judgment and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done.

• Extensive experience implementing large scale technology products and programs.
• Leadership role in a team providing day to day support during the rollout/implementation of newer systems and processes.
• The ability to use formal and informal influencing skills across a cross matrix organization.

You will need to be a UK national and be able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance.

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Posted: May 29, 2026