AWS Customer Assurance Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
We are looking for an independent passionate and deeply knowledgeable leader with experience and expertise in developing and implementing compliance and assurance programs in global environments. You will join our team in helping customers understand how our infrastructure is designed operated maintained and protected in accordance with global regulated industry standards. You will engage AWS customers to rationalize and satisfy their audit compliance and risk requirements specific to AWS. A successful candidate will have deep knowledge of regulatory compliance audit and risk management principles. We are looking for an experienced industry professional who understands complex IT and compliance processes and evaluates opportunities for improvement.
The successful candidate is one who loves working across many stakeholders including internal and external customers to design solutions for compliance challenges. You are passionate about the security of the cloud and you want to solve real business problems. You are a technically experienced and innovative security compliance and audit professional who has the ability to understand IT processes communicate clearly and transparently with customers and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams. You will be a positive influencer across diverse teams be able to effectively rally support for your initiatives and be able to collaborate with others to drive simple scalable solutions to meet customer and regulator expectations. You will have an opportunity to work directly with senior leadership within AWS to improve AWS ability to demonstrate assurance for regulated customers.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for the following activities:
- Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of AWS security activities and control implementations to articulate compliance implications to both customers and internal/external audit functions.
- Develop understanding of regulated industry compliance requirements and communicate how AWS control activities meet customer obligations.
- Simplify and decompose security compliance requirements into clear technical control specifications and policies.
- Field and address requests for team support in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Liaise with customers regulators and auditors articulate control implementation and describe considerations for applying security and compliance concepts to a technical cloud environment.
- Apply a working knowledge of global information security regulation and policy to articulate customer and control impact and drive alignment to AWS controls.
- Implement mechanisms to address key business trends recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges.
- Identify deep actionable insights of our global assurance capabilities to enhance the program with an emphasis on efficiency and scale.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.
Training & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing training and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
- 4 years of compliance program management legal governance audit risk/loss prevention or equivalent experience
- Experience in program requirements definition together with data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements
- Bachelors degree in Auditing Information Systems Management Computer Science Cyber Security or other related fields
- Experience with technical compliance frameworks / programs such as NIST ISO PCI GDPR
- 3 years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
- Professional auditing qualification or similar risk or compliance credentials
- Regulatory compliance experience including responding to and driving action from regulatory findings
- Experience working with third and fourth party risk management programs
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 NY New York - 81600.00 - 142800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 74200.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 74200.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
IC
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