Amazons Specialized Businesses Security Compliance team is growing and looking for a highly motivated security compliance specialist to help us enhance and integrate our governance and compliance programs. You will help to determine the high security bar we hold for our products analyze regulatory and certification requirements and ensure we have sufficient enforcement mechanisms to keep our products and services safe for our customers. You should be a technically experienced and innovative security governance risk and compliance professional who has the ability to understand systems security and privacy processes communicate to customers and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.
Key job responsibilities
* Understand and rationalize compliance requirements for service and device security.
* Provide business specific interpretations and support automation opportunities
* Review security controls that are technical in nature such as access controls data encryption in transit and at rest and auditing and logging user activity
* Engage with the Business and SMEs to define and ensure compliance to information security policies
* Maintain control libraries and compliance requirements and guidance materials for various security standards and regulations
About the team
The Specialized Businesses Security Compliance Team supports Amazons advertising devices and media businesses by defining the security bar for our products and services ensuring regulatory compliance and obtaining and maintaining industry certifications and standards. We work across products like Alexa FireTV Eero and others as well as services like Prime Video and Amazons advertising platform to ensure the safety and security of our customers and their data.
* 6 years experience in security or compliance work in support of a highly technical environment
* 3 years experience designing implementing and/or running technical GRC solutions
* Experience working with multiple security frameworks and regulations like ISO 27001/2 HIPAA NIST 80053 NIST CSF
* Experience writing technical documents and/or policies and standards
* Bachelors degree in Information Security Computer Science Risk Management Engineering Information Systems or related discipline or 5 years equivalent technology experience
* Experience working directly with security engineers auditors and development teams
* Solid technical background and familiarity with AWS core services (EC2 S3 DDB RDS KMS etc.
* Experience with hardware and software development processes products launches and lifecycles of devices and/or services
* Consistent demonstration of utilizing automation to solve recurring problems at scale
* Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills while engaging both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
* Technical knowledge in multiple security domains such as engineering applications system and network security identity and authentication security protocols
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $91800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $196300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.