At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, establishing and maintaining customers and regulatory relationships for security requirements and establish long-term strategies to meet customer and regulatory security assurance needs and requirements. 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.

We are seeking a highly motivated Security Assurance Lead to join our evidence management team. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our most security-conscious customers and internal security stakeholders. You will work alongside audit teams who are experts in their respective frameworks delivering evidence artifacts to demonstrate key risk objectives to strategically address compliance. Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding AWS’ operational and technical control environment while using high-judgement to demonstrate and communicate control posture to customers and stakeholders globally.

The successful candidate will work across many customer groups and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, ISO, PCI, HITRUST etc.) to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. The team culture will encourage ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. Our team members balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will work directly with most divisions within AWS service to improve AWS’ ability to demonstrate assurances for our internal and external customers.

This role facilitates our ability to grow and scale our internal compliance processes and mechanisms to meet the compliance and regulatory expectations globally. You should have the ability to learn and comprehend regulatory requirements, control implementations and operational effectiveness, AWS services, and IT and compliance processes. You should be able to evaluate opportunities for improvement, and influence across organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities
• Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around AWS security controls
• Manage evidence lifecycle for supported global, third-party and customer audits across US, APJ and EMEA regions
• Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
• Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of AWS control activities and implementation to articulate compliance to key stakeholders.
• Bridge communication with key stakeholders and AWS technical communities to articulate control implementation.
• Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.
• Leading projects and supporting campaigns with excellent project management skills.
• Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges
• Communicating to leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and contributing to improvement efforts.
• Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to support process improvement initiatives.

A day in the life
In this role, you will work directly with audit program managers and AWS service teams to ensure the right evidence are delivered to support ongoing compliance programs and customer audits. You will work across the Security Assurance organization as needed to support evidence collection for audits including but not limited to SOC, ISO, FedRAMP, PCI, HIPAA and HITRUST.
Additional work will include, but is not limited to:
- coordinating with Audit Program Managers
- suggesting uplift for evidence requirements
- working with internal and external auditors
- working on process improvements
- coordinating with other security teams.

About the team
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.