Security Assurance Specialist, Security Assurance

Amazon Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in the United Kingdom seeks a Security Assurance Specialist to demonstrate security controls for AWS services. You will lead day-to-day assurance activities, evaluate compliance, and provide evidence to meet the needs of highly security-conscious customers.

Ideal candidates will learn security control implementations, AWS services, and cloud auditing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and influence across teams.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in technical assessments or audits within a cloud environment.
• Experience with AWS or cloud technologies.
• Strong analytical and data-driven reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to establish baselines and agree security requirements and controls.
• Manage requests for evidence relating to key security controls with internal and external stakeholders.
• Review the security of proposed new AWS systems, networks, and software designs for potential risks and resolve integration issues.
• Liaise between stakeholders and AWS communities to articulate security control implementation.
• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to understand security activities and control implementations for customers and stakeholders.
• Maintain information security documentation across AWS teams.

Skills

Cloud security

Auditing

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Job description

Security Assurance Specialist, Security Assurance

Job ID: 10583506 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

The Security Service Assurance Specialist will be part of the team which is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. This position will be focused on the Security Assurance function, leading on day-to-day security assurance activities, evaluating compliance and providing evidence of how they meet the requirements of our most security conscious customers.

At AWS we are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. This role facilitates our ability to build and maintain that trust through our internal Security Assurance processes and mechanisms. Ideal candidates will have the ability to learn and comprehend security control implementations and operational effectiveness, AWS services, and IT and cloud auditing processes. They will also be able to evaluate opportunities for improvement, and influence across organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to establish baselines and agree the security requirements and associated security controls.
• Manage requests for evidence relating to key security controls, by working in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for reviewing the security of proposed new AWS systems, networks, and software designs for potential system security risks, and resolving integration issues related to the implementation of new services within the existing cloud infrastructure.
• Liaise between key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate security control implementation.
• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to enable these to be articulated to both customers and internal/external stakeholders.
• Work across a wide variety of AWS teams to establish and maintain information security documentation.

A day in the life

Our customer needs to work with the most secure AWS services, this role will work with AWS security teams to ensure that our services meet a high security bar before they get into customer control. This will involve performing security assessments and working with teams to support threat modelling on AWS services. Each change to a service represents a new risk, so this role will ensure changes are adequately assessed and any vulnerabilities addressed. If you have worked with security assurance or compliance in the past, this role could be a perfect fit!

About the team

This role sits within the Security Assurance Team. This team covers AWS service and physical security assurance.

You will need to be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
• 2+ years of professional experience in performing technical assessments or audits within a cloud environment, including working knowledge of foundational security principles and industry best practices.
• Proven analytical and quantitative skills, and an ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop detailed reporting and drive process improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST
• Solid foundation in service-oriented and web-service technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing systems using AWS. Familiarity with Information Security or Audit frameworks. Experience in the delivery of projects and programs across multiple teams.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to use data to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.

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