Security Assurance Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Security Assurance Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Job ID: Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (Irish Branch)

At AWS, Security is priority zero. As part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security team, we are looking for a technically deep Industry Specialist who is passionate about owning far-reaching projects to drive continuous improvement across AWS at unparalleled scale. As a part of AWS Compliance and Security Assurance you'll have an opportunity to operate in a constantly changing environment, working with AWS business and engineering teams on business critical, security projects and programs. We work across AWS to drive strategic security initiatives, design and deliver tooling and automation, and continue to raise the bar on security at AWS. Our team also drives programs to enable customers that operate in regulated markets, such as Healthcare, Finance, Government, etc.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the operational services, processes, and controls in place that support AWS's security posture.
• Understand our Risk and Control Library and how it relates to our assessment processes.
• Perform service, feature, and other related assessment work for customer and audit requirements.
• Work with service, infrastructure and administrative teams to develop and deliver tooling that improves AWS's security posture.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and high risk areas.
• Work with service owners to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Manage the build and deployment of new tooling to streamline and automate security related initiatives.
• Support process improvement and security related projects in coordination with service teams.
• Manage communications to service teams and stakeholders.

A Day in the Life

• Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop technical understanding of control implementation, and articulate compliance implications to internal and external audit functions.
• Set strategic direction, improve documentation, track progress, coordinate improvement efforts, and monitor process improvement effectiveness.
• Develop broad domain and technical knowledge in AWS security solutions including the operational processes and controls in place that support AWS compliance programs.
• Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve the organization by being a trusted advisor, facilitator and creative problem solver.
• Develop and share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.
• Liaise with auditors, articulate control implementation and impact, and establish considerations for applying security, privacy and compliance concepts to a technical cloud environment.
• Effectively communicate compliance program results, including assessment status, workflow, remediation, and reporting, to a broad audience including peers and senior leaders.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in security or compliance consulting or advisory work in support of a highly technical environment
• Experience performing technical audits/assessments in direct support of a major compliance effort (e.g., ISO, NIST, SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and other regulatory/industry certifications)
• Bachelor's degree or above in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with audit or risk program design, control environment process documentation, and control mapping
• Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
• Experience defining roadmap strategy and prioritizing deliverables for your team products
• Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment, or experience working with stakeholders

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