Highlights
You will partner with stakeholders across AWS-including service teams, finance, legal, compliance, and security-to ensure risks are consistently identified, measured, escalated, and mitigated within a structured governance framework. You will support the enterprise risk assessment lifecycle, maintain and enhance the risk register, evaluate mitigating activities, and produce risk insights that informs executive decision-making.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Arlington, VA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
AWS Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is seeking a Risk Specialist to join our team within Risk Management Excellence (RMX). In this role, you will help identify, assess, and manage enterprise-level risks that could affect AWS's operations, strategy, and compliance posture.
You will support the enterprise risk assessment lifecycle, maintain and enhance the risk register, evaluate mitigating activities, and produce risk insights that informs executive decision-making. You will partner with stakeholders across AWS-including service teams, finance, legal, compliance, and security-to ensure risks are consistently identified, measured, escalated, and mitigated within a structured governance framework.
The ideal candidate is analytically rigorous, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across organizational boundaries in a fast-moving cloud infrastructure environment. You bring a strong foundation in risk frameworks and a passion for translating complex risk data into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders.
Key job responsibilities
You will conduct enterprise risk assessments across AWS business units, identifying emerging and evolving risks through structured interviews, data analysis, and environmental scanning. You will maintain and enhance the enterprise risk register, ensuring risk owners are assigned, ratings are current, and mitigation plans are tracked to completion. You will produce executive-level risk reports and dashboards that translate complex opportunities into clear, decision-ready insights for senior leadership. You will support regulatory compliance efforts by coordinating evidence gathering, responding to audit inquiries, and tracking remediation activities. As a cross-functional risk advisor, you will partner with service teams, finance, legal, and security to embed risk awareness into business processes and strategic planning. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of risk policies, frameworks, and methodologies aligned to industry standards. Throughout, you will look for AWS ERM
opportunities to automate workflows, improve data quality, and scale the program's reach through better tooling and processes.
A day in the life
You start the day reviewing risk register updates and flagging items that need follow-up with risk owners. You shift to project work: conducting a risk assessment interview with a service team, building out a dashboard for an upcoming leadership review, or evaluating control effectiveness for a compliance inquiry. You may join a cross-functional call with Legal or Finance to align on an emerging risk theme. Refining assessment methodologies, drafting policy updates, or working with engineering on a workflow automation.
About the team
Professional certifications such as CRISC, CISA, CISM, CRM, or equivalent.
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles