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Amazon Government Compliance Specialist, AWS Security Assurance in Austin, Texas
Description
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 regulatory and authority 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 looking for a highly motivated industry expert to join our Government Compliance Team. As part of the team, you will own and lead a strategic element of our US Government Compliance Program (e.g. FedRAMP, DoD). Our team solves complex compliance challenges, dives deep into compliance requirements for both AWS and our customers, improves processes, and drives greater efficiencies in meeting expectations. This role facilitates our ability to grow and scale our internal compliance processes and mechanisms to meet the compliance and regulatory expectations in the US Public Sector Market. You should be an experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand IT and compliance processes, evaluate opportunities for improvement, and to be able to drive innovative campaigns across organizations and teams.
Key job responsibilities
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.
Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges
Simplifying and decomposing security compliance requirements into clear technical specifications and policies
Setting the vision and connecting the vision between technology, business strategies and requirements
Communicating to senior leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts. Leading Escalations
Influencing incoming and present regulations, legislation, mandates and standards for the betterment of AWS and our customers and reduce the impact to our internal and external stakeholders
Fielding and addressing requests for team support in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.
Bridging communication with both technical engineering and business teams to successfully capture and implement business requirements.
Transforming raw thoughts into clear technical documentation and/or direction.
Operating a quality rhythm of the business for managing compliance expectations.
Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.
Leading a large, challenging initiative.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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.
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity or other related fields, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience in project/program management in a technical field.
3+ years of IT security audit, compliance and/or relevant Federal regulatory experience.
2+ years of FedRAMP or NIST compliance program assessment experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated understanding of cloud computing services/deployment architecture.
Experience working with US Government Compliance Frameworks/Programs including: FedRAMP, DoD SRG, NIST, ISO, FISMA, RMF, OSCAL
Have a record of delivery of IT process improvement projects with technology processes and/or major tech companies.
Have experience in cloud technologies.
Have experience performing 3PAO assessments
Have experience performing FedRAMP advisory projects
Have working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 in relation to cloud technologies.
Have experience in assessments, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud services and products
Have experience in performing technical assessments and documentation of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes.
Have experience developing a security compliance strategy based on product roadmap.
Have an understanding of evaluating the design and effectiveness of IT controls.
Experience in identification, management, monitoring and reporting risks/POA&Ms
Have an industry certification such as CISSP, CISA, and CISM.
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