Security Assurance Specialist
Amazon.com
Amazon Web Services is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. We provide a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. We provide organisations with building block web services that allow them to innovate faster and operate their software more cost-effectively. These services-in-the-cloud include on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, querying of structured data, message queuing, and more. The AWS team is building and delivering the next generation of cloud computing that supports public AWS offerings like S3, EC2, and CloudFront. We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable distributed systems.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers. AWS Security is looking for a Security Assurance Specialist who can prioritize well, communicate early and clearly, and has a solid understanding of security and compliance within a cloud environment.
The Security Assurance Specialist will be part of the team which is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. This position will be focused on the Security Assurance function, leading on day-to-day security assurance activities, evaluating compliance and providing evidence of how they meet the requirements of our most security conscious customers.
At AWS we are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. This role facilitates our ability to build and maintain that trust through our internal Security Assurance processes and mechanisms. Ideal candidates will have the ability to learn and comprehend security control implementations and operational effectiveness, AWS services, and IT and cloud auditing processes. They will also be able to evaluate opportunities for improvement, and influence across organizations and teams.
Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to establish baselines and agree the security requirements and associated security controls.
• Manage requests for evidence relating to key security controls, by working in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for reviewing the security of proposed new AWS systems, networks, and software designs for potential system security risks, and resolving integration issues related to the implementation of new services within the existing cloud infrastructure.
• Liaise between key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate security control implementation.
• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to enable these to be articulated to both customers and internal/external stakeholders.
• Work across a wide variety of AWS teams to establish and maintain information security documentation.
About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
About the team
About Amazon Security
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers. AWS Security is looking for a Security Assurance Specialist who can prioritize well, communicate early and clearly, and has a solid understanding of security and compliance within a cloud environment.
The Security Assurance Specialist will be part of the team which is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. This position will be focused on the Security Assurance function, leading on day-to-day security assurance activities, evaluating compliance and providing evidence of how they meet the requirements of our most security conscious customers.
At AWS we are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. This role facilitates our ability to build and maintain that trust through our internal Security Assurance processes and mechanisms. Ideal candidates will have the ability to learn and comprehend security control implementations and operational effectiveness, AWS services, and IT and cloud auditing processes. They will also be able to evaluate opportunities for improvement, and influence across organizations and teams.
Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to establish baselines and agree the security requirements and associated security controls.
• Manage requests for evidence relating to key security controls, by working in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for reviewing the security of proposed new AWS systems, networks, and software designs for potential system security risks, and resolving integration issues related to the implementation of new services within the existing cloud infrastructure.
• Liaise between key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate security control implementation.
• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to enable these to be articulated to both customers and internal/external stakeholders.
• Work across a wide variety of AWS teams to establish and maintain information security documentation.
About the team
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
About the team
About Amazon Security
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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