Security Control Assessor, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

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, maintaining regulatory and security requirements, and establishing strategies to meet current and upcoming customer and regulatory security needs. 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.

• Evaluating the control effectiveness and efficiency of services and features, recommending improvements to ensure they are audit ready at launch.
• Working with service teams to perform assessment and remediation work in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate.
• Communicating with your leadership the status and key deliverables of your initiatives, seeking diverse opinions.
• Bridging communication with technical engineering and business teams to successfully capture and implement business requirements.
• 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.
• Transforming raw thoughts into clear technical documentation and/or direction while developing and maintaining success and operational metrics.
• Operating a quality rhythm of the business for managing compliance expectations.
• Leading one project or campaign to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

In this role, you will work directly with service teams and internal stakeholders evaluating control implementations to ensure services and features are audit ready at general availability launch. You will work across the assessment organization as needed within our control frameworks, including but not limited to SOC, ISO, FedRAMP, PCI, HIPAA and privacy requirements.

• Coordinating with Audit Program Managers
• Suggesting uplift for evidence requirements
• Working with internal and external auditors
• Creating success and operational metrics
• Developing status reporting
• Working on process improvements
• Coordinating with other security teams

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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.

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.

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• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
• 1+ years of experience in Control Assessments, Audit, or Federal Regulatory…