Description

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers. Do you want to innovate around solutions to scale security and compliance? Are you excited about automating compliance operations giving them unprecedented capability and agility? Do you enjoy driving fast-paced complex projects focused on game changing outcomes? As a senior member of the AWS Security Assurance Team you will have the opportunity to pioneer technically excellent solutions that are meaningful to AWS’ business. Building on those experiences you’ll collaborate with key stakeholders across AWS to innovate with new technologies and drive maturity of processes around complex and evolving challenges.

We are looking for a highly motivated leader with security, compliance, and cloud experience to join our team. As part of the team, you will need to demonstrate the ability to think strategically about compliance challenges, scale, and security risk and build and convey compelling plans to innovate for the future. A successful candidate is one that has a natural ability to balance multiple projects, work within a high-growth and constantly evolving environment, and collaborate across diverse stakeholders. As a leader on this team you will be responsible for understanding key AWS security controls, processes leveraged to support compliance initiatives, and supporting technology and looking for ways to continuously improve for scale, efficiency, and quality in-line with customer expectations.

The successful candidate is one who loves working across many stakeholders to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Our team members and management alike 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 directly with most divisions within AWS service to show AWS’ ability to demonstrate and communicate key controls within given control domains.

In this role, you will facilitate open and transparent relationships with key AWS stakeholders. We seek an experienced and industry professional who has the ability to understand IT processes, security controls, communicate across a variety of stakeholder, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

This position can work out of our AWS offices in Arlington or Herndon, VA; and Seattle, WA.

This position will be responsible for the following activities:

• Understand and serve as a subject-matter expert around AWS’ security controls, along with the supporting processes and technology enablement

• Become a deep technical and compliance resource that earns the trust of executive stakeholders

• Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of program improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.

• Innovate on behalf of AWS Security Assurance, translating your thoughts into action yielding measurable results

• Operate a quality rhythm of the business for managing multiple stakeholder expectations simultaneously.

• Lead teams that define technology requirements and drive automation

• Lead teams that coordinate and deliver across the assurance engagement lifecycle (audits, customer inquiries, direct exams, etc)

Inclusive Team Culture

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 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.

Work/Life Balance

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work. We are looking for a highly motivated leader with security domain and controls subject-matter expert to join our team. As part of the team, you will be responsible for understanding key AWS security controls, understand evidence that strategically address these controls, and work with control owners to generate evidence that fulfills AWS compliance requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for understanding AWS’ operational processes around controls within these domains and be able to clearly articulate and communicate to various stakeholder audiences in a variety of forms (e.g., demos, interviews, etc.).

About the team

About AmSec:

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.

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.

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 and 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience

• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience

• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $141,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.