AWS Assurance Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Do you enjoy innovating and developing simple solutions for complex problems? Do you thrive in the face of ambiguous challenges? Do you have a passion for analyzing requirements, partnering with legal, business, and builder teams, and articulating opinions and recommendations based on data and research? Do you want to drive that analysis into actions that enable business?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security is looking for an experienced, organized, self-driven, and results-oriented Security Industry Specialist to join the AWS Security Assurance team. This organization provides external stakeholders with judicious transparency and confidence regarding AWS"s security posture, compliance capabilities, and risk management practices. In this role, you will lead cross-functional projects and programs that span multiple stakeholders, including internal product owners, engineers, operators, compliance specialists, finance and legal partners. You will partner with these teams to deeply understand and analyze new and emerging regulatory, customer, or third-party security requirements.

Key job responsibilities

The leader in this role will be required to:

• Manage multiple, sometimes competing, priorities simultaneously;
• Distill complex and ambiguous technical problems to their core elements;
• Translate problems into business and technical requirements and tactical actions;
• Identify and engage subject matter experts across multiple organizations (tech and non-tech) and disciplines to define potential solutions;
• Scope the cost, technical, and operational impact of potential solutions;
• Develop recommendations based upon data;
• Craft clear written and verbal communications about the problem, solutions and recommendations for audiences across functions and all levels (including executive leadership); and
• Use technical knowledge, data and strong communication skills to influence partners, stakeholders, and leaders to drive clear and timely decisions.

A day in the life

The unique aspect of this position is the opportunity to operationalize your analyses into real business outcomes. This means that in addition to providing an interpretation of requirements through writing comprehensive strategy documents, you will also deftly develop, communicate, and manage mitigation and implementation plans.

Your work will cover the entire lifecycle of AWS"s infrastructure, services, and products, from inception to operationalization to development to deployment to operations. This role demands intellectual humility, curiosity, and a willingness to always be ready to learn new things.

While this position reports to the Asia-Pacific, Japan and China regional team, you should expect your work to support global operations and programs.

About the team

The AWS Security Assurance Organization is responsible for delivering regulatory, customer, and third-party products including audits, exams, and certifications. Our team members collaborate virtually from locations across Asia Pacific, Japan and China and locations across North America with internal AWS teams as well as external AWS partners, customers, and regulators. We are passionate about delivering industry-leading security solutions for our customers and supporting the AWS business, while innovating to create globally-applicable solutions.

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.