AWS Assurance Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security
Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of
services offered by AWS. At AWS' scale, we must invent new ways to provide the
highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers.

We are looking for a highly motivated assurance expert to join our team. As part
of the team, you will manage targeted campaigns to solve complex compliance
challenges, improve processes, and drive greater efficiencies across the
security assurance organization. This role facilitates our ability to grow and
scale our internal compliance processes to meet the compliance and regulatory
expectations in markets and industries around the globe. You should be an
experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand IT and
compliance processes, evaluate opportunities for improvement, and to be able to
drive innovative campaigns through multiple organizations and teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience handling confidential information

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
• Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
• Experience with SQL and Excel

Responsibilities

• Participating in assurance engagements as an SME
• Lead and manage areas of examination with excellent project management skills.
• Communicate to team leads on the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
• Fielding and addressing requests for team support in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Dive deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.
• Lead assurance engagements articulating AWS security control design and operational effectiveness to diverse stakeholders
• Make diligent decisions on regulatory and auditor engagement approaches with minimal oversight, iterating on mechanisms to scale for diverse customer requirements
• Analyze compliance impact of new regulations and customer requirements, developing mitigation strategies with public policy and cross-functional teams
• Deliver presentations and technical documentation to regulatory bodies, customers, and internal leadership to drive alignment on security compliance strategies
• Define business problems, set objectives, and influence resource allocation to drive security assurance improvements and operational excellence

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level