Project Kuiper is an Amazon initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of over 3,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities worldwide. At Project Kuiper, we are obsessed with customer trust and are seeking an individual contributor who is creative, and passionate about delivering Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions to meet Kuiper's regulatory and external assurance needs. In this role, you will work collaboratively with various business and security teams across Amazon to identify compliance needs, assess the maturity of processes and controls, design, build, and execute high-impact security or compliance programs and liaise with external auditors to ensure successful audit executions.
This role is open for Sunnyvale, CA, and Redmond, WA locations.

The Security Compliance Specialist in Project Kuiper's Security team will drive regulatory and certification compliance requirements for our world-class cyber and information security throughout Kuiper's technology, systems, and infrastructure. This role is at the forefront of delivering highly secure space and terrestrial broadband telecommunication services for consumer, enterprise, telecom, transportation and government customers around the world.

The ideal candidate is technically experienced and innovative security, risk, compliance, and audit professional who has the ability to understand systems, security, and privacy processes, communicate to customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams. You have implemented NIST control frameworks, reviewed control activities, evidence collection, and liaised with auditors.


Export Control Requirement:

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.


Key job responsibilities
- Design and drive scalable processes within a GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) framework to ensure compliance with Kuiper's regulatory and contractual security requirements;
- Building ISO 27001, ISO 22301, NIST 800-53 and other compliance certifications and attestation programs, identifying applicable security controls, assessing compliance gaps and readiness, developing remediation strategies, and driving remediation activities to completion;
- Driving certifications and assurance programs by liaising with external auditors and other Amazon security teams, articulating control implementation and impact, and establishing considerations for applying security, and risk concepts to a highly technical and complex environment;
- Communicating to key stakeholders and leadership on controls implementation, audit results, compliance program metrics, key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as, seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts;
- Working closely with engineering, compliance, security, and Legal teams to identify future compliance and regulatory requirements and define compliance solutions;
- Serving as a subject matter expert and advisor on complex compliance issues;
- Be comfortable with hands-on day-to-day problem solving and implementing quick and effective action plans to meet short- and long-term priorities.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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