Security Industry Specialist, CISC Customer and Industry Security Compliance

The Stores Security and Regulatory Compliance (Stores SRC) organization is currently hiring for a Security Industry Specialist to join our Customer and Industry Security Compliance (CISC) team.

SRC is comprised of teams that provide consistent high-level judgement to help Amazon businesses and subsidiaries comply with security regulations policies and Amazons high bar for security. The CISC Team sits within Stores SRC and serves as the primary Security Assurance team for Enterprise certifications of ISO 27001 SOC2 type 2 PCI DSS CE and CE as well as Compliance reviews and external security due diligence reviews for sales enablement in Amazon.

The CISC team is hiring a Security Compliance Specialist to focus on preparing for and supporting third-party attestation audits. This includes preparing reports and regulatory/industry certifications along with developing standard security response protocols for third-party inquiries submitted to Amazon Amazons corporate customers business associates and other third party (3P) partners.

The SRC team obsesses over our customers and work to ensure that they are confident that Amazon cares about data confidentiality integrity and availability by providing third-party attestations as proof of compliance. To support successful attestations the SRC team identifies applicable controls assesses their effectiveness and works with control owners to remediate the findings.

The successful candidate will be a technically experienced and innovative security and compliance professional who has the ability to understand security processes effectively communicate with technical teams and business leaders alike and be able to drive automated and scalable process improvements across internal organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities
- Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around Amazon security controls
- Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of control activities and implementation to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
- Developing a knowledge base of Amazon control activities and implementations; vetting with business partners and security stakeholders
- Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
- Develop broad domain and technical understanding of Industry requirements and regulatory expectations to drive process improvement initiatives
- Preparing for and supporting assessments and audits for PCI DSS SOC2 ISO 27001 US Government regulations/standards and other certifications and assessments by identifying applicable controls assessing control readiness for third-party assessments recommending appropriate remediation strategies and tracking remediation activities to completion.
- Driving and managing individual projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
- Clearly communicating vision deliverables and project status to management and key technical and business stakeholders.
- Delivering recommendations and risk interpretations in a clear concise and audience-specific format.

A day in the life
Daily activities involve the full spectrum and full lifecycle of GRC activities in support of a range of different audits and attestation activities and once familiar with workflows including identifying and innovating ways to improve existing processes

About the team
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The CISC Team has a manager responsible for several PCI DSS team members an ISO 27001 team member also responsible for CE/CE certification a SOC2 type 2 team member a Sales Enablement team member and one dedicated to Regulatory compliance risk assessment and implementation. Culture is per the Privacy main mission - deliver Trust to internal and external customers nailing the North star of delivering Audits Attestations and making things clear repeatable and smooth for all stakeholders.

- 5 years experience assessing complex technical processes
- Experience in developing unified frameworks that include more than one of the following: ISO SOC NIST PCI DSS common regulatory regimes e.g. GDPR US relevant regulations etc.
- Direct experience in working with security and business teams on controls design to address regulatory compliance requirements

- Bachelors degree or BS degree
- Demonstrated understanding of cloud computing services/architecture
- Experience with using GRC tooling
- Have a standard industry recognized certification such as (but not limited to) CISSP CISA CRISC and CISM.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 102000.00 - 178400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 102000.00 - 178400.00 USD annually