At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS 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 evidence management 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 evidence 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. Our team members balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. 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.
This role can be located in Seattle, WA.
Key job responsibilities
• Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around AWS security controls
• Manage evidence lifecycle for supported global customer audits across US, APJ and EMEA regions
• Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
• 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.
• Bridge communication with key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate control implementation.
• Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.
• Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
• Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges
• Setting the vision and connecting the vision between technology, business strategies and requirements
• Communicating to senior leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts.
• 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.
• Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.
About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
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.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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 $185,000/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.