AWS Customer Assurance Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 91,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology firm is seeking a passionate AWS Customer Assurance Specialist to enhance security and compliance for its customers. In this pivotal role, you will engage with diverse stakeholders to address regulatory challenges and ensure that AWS maintains its high security standards. You'll dive deep into compliance frameworks, communicate with customers about their obligations, and implement scalable solutions to meet regulatory expectations. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with senior leadership and influence the future of security assurance in the cloud, while fostering a culture of inclusivity and continuous learning.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Training & Career Growth Opportunities

Work-Life Balance

Diversity & Inclusion Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in risk management, audit, or compliance in regulated industries.
• Experience with technical compliance frameworks like NIST, ISO, PCI, GDPR.
• Industry-recognized certifications like CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP.

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into AWS control environment to develop understanding of security activities.
• Simplify compliance requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Liaise with customers and regulators to articulate control implementation.

Skills

Risk Management

Audit

Compliance

Technical Compliance Frameworks

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Information Systems Management

Diploma in Cybersecurity

Tools

NIST

ISO

PCI

GDPR

Job description

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Description

Do you have ideas about influencing the future of how AWS delivers assurance for its customers? At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. Come, join a creative team at Security Assurance dedicated to engaging with our most regulatory and security conscious customers. We solve customers’ most challenging regulatory compliance, audit, and risk management requirements to provide customers with the confidence to operate their most sensitive workloads securely on AWS.

Description

Do you have ideas about influencing the future of how AWS delivers assurance for its customers? At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. Come, join a creative team at Security Assurance dedicated to engaging with our most regulatory and security conscious customers. We solve customers’ most challenging regulatory compliance, audit, and risk management requirements to provide customers with the confidence to operate their most sensitive workloads securely on AWS.

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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t 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 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

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.

Training & Career Growth

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.

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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in either risk management, audit, or compliance in regulated industries or a provider of services to regulated industries.
• Experience delivering results with technical compliance frameworks / programs, such as NIST, ISO, PCI, GDPR.
• 1 or more industry-recognized assurance, risk, compliance, or security professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Auditing, Cybersecurity or other related fields.
• Experience in technical security design, compliance consulting, or advisory work in support of a highly technical environment.
• Experience working with third and fourth party risk management programs.
• Experience managing, performing, and/or overseeing IT self-assessments or audits, and the respective gap remediation.
• Experience responding to, and driving action from, regulatory findings.
  
  

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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $91,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $196,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2947473

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management, Management, and Product Management

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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