Senior Industry Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security is looking for an experienced, organized, self-driven, and results-oriented Security Industry Specialist to join the AWS Security Assurance team. This organization provides external stakeholders with judicious transparency and confidence regarding AWS's security posture, compliance capabilities, and risk management practices. In this role, you will lead cross-functional projects and programs that span multiple stakeholders, including internal product owners, engineers, operators, compliance specialists, finance and legal partners. You will partner with these teams to deeply understand and analyze new and emerging regulatory, customer, or third-party security requirements.

The unique aspect of this position is the opportunity to operationalize your analyses into real business outcomes. This means that in addition to providing an interpretation of requirements through writing comprehensive strategy documents, you will also deftly develop, communicate, and manage mitigation and implementation plans.

Your work will cover the entire lifecycle of AWS's infrastructure, services, and products, from inception to operationalization to development to deployment to operations. This role demands intellectual humility, curiosity, and a willingness to always be ready to learn new things.

While this position reports to the Asia-Pacific, Japan and China regional team, you should expect your work to support global operations and programs.

The AWS Security Assurance Organization is responsible for delivering regulatory, customer, and third-party products including audits, exams, and certifications. Our team members collaborate virtually from locations across Asia Pacific, Japan and China and locations across North America with internal AWS teams as well as external AWS partners, customers, and regulators. We are passionate about delivering industry-leading security solutions for our customers and supporting the AWS business, while innovating to create globally-applicable solutions.

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 Amazon’s 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.

In Amazon Security, it’s 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.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Requirements

• Experience driving security programs across large diverse organizations
• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Academic or work experience in Information Security, Risk Management, regulatory compliance, and Security Policies

Nice To Haves

• Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Experience working in international cross-functional teams
• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
• Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Experience with domestic or international travel coordination, or experience with end-to-end project management
• Travel up to 25% of the time
• Advanced Academic Studies, Professional Certifications, or equivalent working experience in a technical field such as engineering or information technology

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple, sometimes competing, priorities simultaneously;
• Distill complex and ambiguous technical problems to their core elements;
• Translate problems into business and technical requirements and tactical actions;
• Identify and engage subject matter experts across multiple organizations (tech and non-tech) and disciplines to define potential solutions;
• Scope the cost, technical, and operational impact of potential solutions;
• Develop recommendations based upon data;
• Craft clear written and verbal communications about the problem, solutions and recommendations for audiences across functions and all levels (including executive leadership); and
• Use technical knowledge, data and strong communication skills to influence partners, stakeholders, and leaders to drive clear and timely decisions.

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