Amazon Web Services (AWS) prioritizes security and is seeking a Security Control Assessor to join their Compliance and Security Assurance team. The role involves performing control reviews related to compliance frameworks and ensuring services are audit ready at launch, while also facilitating internal compliance processes and communicating effectively across teams.
Responsibilities
- Evaluating the control effectiveness and efficiency of services and features, recommending improvements to ensure they are audit ready at launch
- Working with service teams to perform assessment and remediation work in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate
- Communicating with your leadership the status and key deliverables of your initiatives, seeking diverse opinions
- Bridging communication with technical engineering and business teams to successfully capture and implement business requirements
- 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
- Transforming raw thoughts into clear technical documentation and/or direction while developing and maintaining success and operational metrics
- Operating a quality rhythm of the business for managing compliance expectations
- Leading one project or campaign to meet the evolving needs of our customers
- Coordinating with Audit Program Managers
- Suggesting uplift for evidence requirements
- Working with internal and external auditors
- Creating success and operational metrics
- Developing status reporting
- Working on process improvements
- Coordinating with other security teams
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
- 1+ years of experience in Control Assessments, Audit, or Federal Regulatory experience
- Bachelor's degree or above in Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field
- Experience using AWS services
- Experience leveraging technology to drive process improvements
- Experience performing security and privacy assessments and related remediation work
- Knowledge of assessments, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud services and products
- Experience developing a security compliance strategy based on product roadmap
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Company Overview
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://aws.amazon.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 22803 in 2025, 21175 in 2024, 19057 in 2023, 24088 in 2022, 12233 in 2021, 14881 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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