Security Assurance Manager, Global Assurance Enablement, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an innovative firm where security is paramount! As a Security Assurance Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance and security for our most trusted clients. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders, manage audits, and drive improvements across AWS's security controls. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence security strategies and enhance customer trust on a global scale. If you're passionate about security and compliance and have a knack for project management, this role is perfect for you. Be part of a culture that values ownership, diversity, and innovation while you make a significant impact in the world of cloud security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security, audits, customer trust, and risk assessments.
• Expertise in assessing complex technical processes and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage assurance lifecycle for global customer audits across multiple regions.
• Communicate key risks and areas of program improvement to leadership.
• Lead projects to improve compliance program delivery at scale.

Skills

Security Audits

Risk Assessments

Compliance Frameworks

Project Management

Cloud Computing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems Management

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Auditing

Tools

AWS Security Controls

Compliance Monitoring Tools

Job description

Security Assurance Manager, Global Assurance Enablement, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Job ID: 2947551 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Compliance and Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, establishing and maintaining customers and regulatory relationships for security requirements and establish long-term strategies to meet customer and regulatory security assurance needs and requirements. At AWS' scale, we hire experienced builders to design and operate scalable mechanisms to provide the highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers.

We are seeking a highly motivated Security Assurance Manager to join our assurance team. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our most security-conscious customers and internal security stakeholders. You will work alongside audit teams who are experts in their respective frameworks delivering assurance artifacts to demonstrate key risk objectives to strategically address compliance. Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding AWS’ operational and technical control environment while using high-judgement to demonstrate and communicate control posture to customers and stakeholders globally.

The successful candidate will work across many customer groups and compliance frameworks (Cloud Control Matrix, NIST, ISO etc.) to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. The team culture will encourage ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. You will work directly with most divisions within AWS service to improve AWS’ ability to demonstrate assurances for our internal and external customers.

In this role, you will facilitate open and transparent relationships with AWS internal stakeholders, customers, and third-party auditors. We seek an experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand core compliance frameworks, dive deep into IT processes, communicate to auditors, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities

1. Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around AWS security controls.
2. Manage assurance lifecycle for supported global customer audits across US, APJ and EMEA regions.
3. Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
4. Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of AWS control activities and implementation to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
5. Bridge communication with key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate control implementation.
6. Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.
7. Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
8. Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges.
9. Setting the vision and connecting the vision between technology, business strategies and requirements.
10. Communicating to senior leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts.
11. Diving 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.
12. Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Mathematics, Accounting/Auditing, or other related fields
· 5+ years of experience in security, audits, customer trust, control assessments, or risk assessments.
· 5+ years of experience assessing complex technical processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Demonstrated understanding of cloud computing services/architecture.
· Experience with monitoring and automating security controls.
· Experience in third-party and/or internal audit examinations.
· Demonstrates high judgement and risk decision making abilities.
· Have experience in performing technical assessments and documentation of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes, including working knowledge of key controls across a number of industry best practices.
· Direct experience in identification, management, monitoring and reporting risks/POA&Ms.
· Have an industry certification such as CISSP, CISA, and CISM.

Posted: March 18, 2025 (Updated about 4 hours ago)