Insider Risk Specialist AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider providing virtualized infrastructure storage networking messaging and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment operating at massive levels of scale. Businesses from startups to enterprises run their operations and applications on AWS multitenant infrastructure

AWS is looking for an exceptional Insider Risk Specialist to join our security team.

This position will be working as part of a wider team of industryleading security experts working with UK customers. It will support the Insider Risk Lead by owning developing and implementing critical insider risk workstream operational activity.

This role is peoplefacing on two levels: external customers and internal customers that the insider risk team is responsible for providing guidance to and carrying out investigations for.

As a result the ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills excellent prioritisation and time management analytical capabilities from prior experience with investigations excellent communication abilities and experience in security risk management or wider security processes.

Key job responsibilities
Among other responsibilities the Insider Risk Specialist will:
Support with preparation and followup actions for recurring governance meetings with senior stakeholders
Develop and maintain insider risk workstream documentation including SOPs runbooks and policy
Support with project management activities and reporting to leadership
Develop and implement rolespecific security training programs for various audiences
Create and manage training compliance mechanisms
Support with security culture initiatives through newsletters briefings and events
Collaborate with the communications team to identify gaps in employees understanding of security policies
Develop and track key metrics for insider risk mitigation assessment
Build trend analysis reports from insider risk incident data
Support with implementing risk management frameworks
Collaborate with other security teams on wider investigations processes
Handle insider riskrelated casework through its full lifecycle including:
Participate in tabletop exercises for insider risk scenarios
Engage with corporate partners to optimise collaboration and support
Develop mentoring mechanisms for knowledgesharing across security teams


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Minimum of 5 years experience in the security field
Minimum of 2 years experience with data analysis and working with business intelligence and data visualisation tools to manage large datasets (i.e. AmazonBI Quicksight). Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
Strong time management skills and ability to prioritise in a fastpaced environment

This position requires a detailoriented individual who can handle multiple priorities while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships and contributing to the overall security posture of the organisation. An entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to drive innovation independently; have a passion to improve at every opportunity

Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business
Ability to able to credibly coordinate between technical teams and business stakeholders
Demonstrated maturity judgment negotiation/influence skills analytical skills and leadership skills. Familiarity with web services multitiered systems workflow modelling and enterprise application integration

Ideal candidate will have an intermediate or better level of knowledge of a variety of regulated security programs in multiple fields (personnel security program security physical security and education awareness and training)

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