Security Assurance - Technical Program Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in driving exceptional security for customers? Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies? Do you see compliance as a business enabler? Amazon Web Services (AWS) business is rapidly expanding its global presence and we are looking for a highly motivated security Assurance Program Manager to help lead our Security Assurance Engineering and Architecture Readiness team. As part of the AWS Security Assurance team, this role will build the bridges between security, technology and compliance by working directly with our AWS service teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and related Amazon corporate teams. This candidate should be a technically experienced and an innovative security/compliance professional who has the ability to dive deep into a variety of complex architectures, understand IT processes, and map product offerings to existing and emerging compliance standards. The role will help drive and scale the engineering and architecture readiness program through innovative process changes across multiple organizations and teams.

Key Responsibilities
This position will be responsible for:
· Evaluating business processes to align AWS services to AWS controls and compliance programs
· Developing process documentation and managing changes to business processes
· Performing service impact assessments of existing and emerging compliance programs
· Supporting process improvement and control implementation projects in coordination with the service teams
· Managing communications to service teams and stakeholders of compliance program requirements and service impact
· Confirming readiness of services for audit and/or certification
· Liaising between AWS Security Assurance program and AWS Service teams and managing stakeholder relationships
· Developing a working knowledge of the operational processes and controls in place that support the AWS Security Assurance program, including commercial and regulatory compliance programs, and guiding control owners in documenting their control activities
· Assist stakeholders with aligning: standard operating procedures,
controls, monitoring, and reporting with the goal of improving operations, compliance policies, and risk management effectiveness
· Innovation of mechanisms to better meet business processes and compliance requirements.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications
·Bachelor's Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Mathematics, Accounting/Auditing, or other related fields.
·3+ years of experience in project/program management in a technical field
·3+ years of experience in security or compliance consulting or advisory work in support of a highly technical environment.
· 3+ years of experience in performing and/or participating in technical assessments of complex IT architecture
·3+ years of experience developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships across large organizations.