Security Control Assessor, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) prioritizes security, and the Compliance and Security Assurance team is tasked with ensuring regulatory and security standards are met. The Security Control Assessor will conduct control reviews and assessments, collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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 experience
• Bachelor's degree or above in Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field
• Experience using AWS services
• Experience leveraging technology to drive process improvements
• Experience performing security and privacy assessments and related remediation work
• Knowledge of assessments, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud services and products
• Experience developing a security compliance strategy based on product roadmap

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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