At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. At AWS’ scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers.
We are looking for a highly motivated Industry Specialist (IS) with security domain and controls subject-matter expert to join our team. As part of the team, you will be responsible for understanding key AWS security controls, emerging compliance requirements with impact to AWS, and how to strategically work with service teams and control owners to fulfill these requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding AWS’ operational processes around controls within these domains and be able to clearly articulate and communicate to various stakeholder audiences in a variety of forms (e.g., written documents, demos, interviews).
The successful candidate is one who loves working across many stakeholders to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management alike take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Our team members balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will work directly with most divisions within AWS to help teams forecast, plan, resource, and budget for upcoming security assurance activities that may impact their business.
In this role, you will facilitate open and transparent relationships with key AWS stakeholders. We seek an experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand IT processes, security controls, communicate across a variety of stakeholder, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.
This position can work out of Arlington, VA, Herndon, VA or Seattle, WA.
Key job responsibilities
– Engaging service teams and working closely with engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and security teams to meet compliance requirements and plan for assurance activities.
– Communicating to key stakeholders and leadership the operational processes around AWS security practices and how controls are implemented across the environment.
– Communicating to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as, seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
– Fielding and addressing compliance information requests in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
– Diving deep into the AWS control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of AWS control activities and implementation to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
– Bridging communication with key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate how compliance requirements impact AWS.
– Operate a quality rhythm of the business for managing multiple stakeholder expectations simultaneously.
About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we 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.
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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life-both in and outside of work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Mathematics, Accounting/Auditing, or other related fields
– Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the security field
– Minimum of 6 years’ experience in risk management, assurance and compliance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience with monitoring and automating security controls.
– Experience in third-party audits and regional/regulatory examinations.
– Experience with generating automated metrics to measure service and program effectiveness and consistency.
– Demonstrates high judgement and risk decision making abilities.
– Experience in understanding compliance requirements, key controls, and security processes, as well as, auditing IT processes, including working knowledge of key controls across a number of industry best practices
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $127,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.