Cloud Standards Board (CSB) Lead

Elyon International•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Manage work of the Cloud Standards Board (CSB) and CSB Core Team (3 members). The CSB Lead directs technical analysis, validation, and standardization of cloud services for the enterprise. This role ensures that every cloud service reviewed by the Cloud Standards Board meets security and architecture requirements before the service controls are automated and deployed. You will bridge the gap between business requirements provided by the Service Enablement Product Owner (PO) and technical implementation executed by the Policy as Code (PaC) team.

Requirements

Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical reviews with security and architecture stakeholders.
Extensive experience in AWS architecture and security controls.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support multi-cloud initiatives.
Background in development, automating security controls or working with PaC teams.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the Service Enablement Product Owner (PO) and CSB Project Manager (PM) to reduce the time it takes to get a new service enabled by 30% in 2026 and improve the process for enabling services.
Plan reviews for CSB service enablement requests, and track/document states of requests to maintain statistics/metrics on service enablement. Report status weekly, or more often if required.
Incorporate use of AI into service enablement processes, including developing service enablement workbooks, metrics and other use cases. Support ongoing AI initiatives as needed.
Direct AWS, Azure and GCP analysts/architects to ensure cloud service documentation is accurate, actionable, and ready for review.
Work with the Service Enablement Product Owner (PO) and Project Manager (PM) to identify and address service enablement process bottlenecks. Standardize CSB work intake from tickets, waivers, and informal requests into enterprise work-tracking tools (GSEP, ADO) to improve velocity.
Serve as the primary point of contact for the Policy as Code (PaC) team regarding technical implementation issues, control gaps, or architectural blockers.
Lead meetings to review PaC controls, and validate that automated controls produced by PaC team accurately reflect the requirements defined by the Cloud Standards Board (CSB).
Evaluate cloud service usage and control maturity to promote services to Enterprise Standard status via the Architecture Standard Review (ASR) process. Develop process and cadence for reviewing and promoting services to standard.
Review and approve waivers for non-standard services at least twice weekly. Reduce the time that waivers for approved cloud services wait in queues for approval by Cloud Standards Board core team.
Lead service reviews before the Cloud Standards Board (a panel of Security, Perimeter, and Enterprise Architecture experts). Resolve blockers regarding service viability or security incompatibilities.