At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our most security conscious customers.
We are looking for a independent and motivated IT audit specialist with security controls experience to join our team. As part of the team, you will be responsible for maintaining our internal AWS security controls product to serve our external audit function. You will understand AWS’s internal controls that strategically address our customers’ goals and objectives, and work with builders to document security controls that fulfills AWS compliance requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for helping maintain the product’s lifecycle: from control validation to review cycles, to bar-raising our internal controls.
The successful candidate is one who can dive deep into AWS’s security architecture and understand how the different components work together to build comprehensive security and compliance strategies. We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management alike take a high degree of ownership for their program vision, execute their own ideas, and hold themselves and team members to a high bar. Our team members balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will work directly with divisions within AWS service to improve AWS’ ability to demonstrate assurances for our internal and external customers.
In this role, you will document, refine, and improve our current control workpapers, and helps us engineer and design tech-backed solutions to provide a good customer experience with the security controls product. We seek a security industry professional who can understand core compliance frameworks, dive deep into IT processes, document our best practices, and drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Review, document, develop, and maintain security controls
- Communicate our security controls to internal stakeholders and customers
- Communicate to key stakeholders the operational processes around AWS security practices and how controls are implemented across the environment.
- 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 implementations to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
- Be able to deliver independently, but seek guidance from managers and mentors.
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.- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Mathematics, Accounting/Auditing, or other related fields
- 3+ years of experience in security, audits, customer trust, control assessments, and/or security controls.
- 3+ years of experience assessing complex technical processes
- Experience with monitoring and automating security controls.
- Experience in third-party, Government, and/or internal audit examinations.
- Demonstrates high judgement and risk decision making abilities.
- Experience with understanding, implementing, and/or writing IT security policies
- 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
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