Amazon Security is looking for a Security Industry Specialist focused on driving information security compliance for Amazons Healthcare and Payments systems. This role will provide advisory guidance to new and existing businesses at Amazon and will regularly conduct deep dives into critical risk areas. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the strategic security and compliance direction of a large global organization this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. You will be responsible for driving consensus across teams to define and influence the secure and compliant design of systems worldwide in a scalable way.
Key job responsibilities
Understands and rationalizes compliance requirements in the healthcare and payments domains. Provides business specific interpretations and supports automation opportunities while working with Dev teams.
Establishes credibility and maintains strong working relationships with groups involved with payment security and compliance matters (Stores Security Legal Business Development Internal Audit Fraud Physical Security Developer Community Networking Systems etc..
Collaborates with Compliance Specialists and business/service teams to understand and validate assessment scope.
Reviews security controls that are technical in nature such as access controls data encryption in transit and at rest and auditing and logging user activity to assess whether the controls are implemented and operating effectively.
Responsible for building and influencing security as a core competency throughout our relationships with internal teams/partners/vendor; this includes providing education and training to the organization.
Delivers recommendations and risk interpretations in a clear concise and audiencespecific format
Engages with the Business and SMEs to ensure compliance to information security policies
Supports data analysis requests to identify trends and provide valuable insights to the leadership.
About the team
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Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems Computer Science or relevant field
3 years of relevant industry experience including information assurance data privacy and compliance in healthcare domains.
3 years of information security governance audit risk management or related client service or consulting experience.
Skilled in risk management business risk analysis and making complex business/risk tradeoff recommendations and decisions.
Technical knowledge and familiarity with information security standards and frameworks such as: HIPAA HITRUST PCI DSS GLBA ISO NIST or other regulatory regimes
Master degree in Management Information Systems Computer Science or relevant field with 5 years of relevant industry experience including information assurance data privacy and compliance in healthcare domains.
Experience in control framework development and implementation
Related security control and compliance experience in various frameworks such as: HIPAA HITRUST PCI DSS GLBA ISO NIST or other regulatory regimes
CISSP CISA CISM CIPP CEH and/or other comparable security controls or audit certifications preferred.
Experience with AWS Cloud services managing security for AWS Cloud services
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