Summary
Amazon is hiring a Security Assurance Specialist to support AWS cybersecurity initiatives in the UAE. The role involves explaining security controls to customers, regulators and auditors, assessing compliance requirements, and improving security and program-management processes. Applicants need a degree or equivalent experience, at least five years of relevant experience in IT audits, regulated industries, and technical or cloud environments, and a recognized security, cloud or audit certification. Business-level English and spoken Arabic are required, and candidates must be UAE nationals.
The posting
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Amazon obsesses over customers, and delivering secure cloud solutions for customers is our priority. We are looking for a cybersecurity professional with security assurance and compliance experience to support AWS's cybersecurity initiatives in the UAE region.
In this role, the successful candidate will enjoy working across many stakeholders, including internal and external customers, to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. You are passionate about the security of the cloud and you want to solve real business problems.
We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. We expect team members and management alike to take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. We expect this person to balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will have an opportunity to work directly with senior leadership within Amazon to improve our ability to demonstrate assurance for regulated customers.
You should be a technically experienced and innovative security, compliance, and audit professional who has the ability to understand IT processes, communicate clearly and transparently with customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.
**You should be UAE National to be considered for this role.**
Key job responsibilities
As part of the team, you will work with customers and regulators to demonstrate Amazon security controls applicable to local requirements. You will join our team in helping customers understand how our infrastructure is designed, operated, maintained, and protected in accordance with global regulated industry standards.
In this role, you will be responsible for the following activities:
- Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to articulate compliance implications to both customers and internal/external audit functions.
- Develop understanding of regulated industry compliance requirements and communicate how we control activities to meet global regulatory obligations.
- Liaise with customers, regulators and auditors, articulate control implementation, and describe considerations for applying security and compliance concepts to monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve the organization by being a trusted advisor, facilitator and creative problem solver.
- Implement continuous improvements to the security organization and the program management process. Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.
Apply a working knowledge of global information security regulation and policy to articulate customer and control impact and drive alignment to Amazon controls.
A day in the life
On any given day, you'll be working directly with customers to respond to their assurance needs, helping third-party auditors understand the AWS control environment, or talking to regulators about how AWS views cloud security. You'll be talking to AWS service teams about how the technology works under the hood and helping translate that technology into meaningful security and compliance outcomes.
About the team
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. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. 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.
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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent technology experience
- 5+ years of working experience in performing and/or participating in IT audits and assessments of highly technical cloud-based environments.
- 5+ years working in highly regulated industries (e.g. financial services, healthcare, and energy, telecommunications).
- Business level proficiency in English (verbal and written) and Arabic (verbal)
- 5+ years of one or more of the following: big data, DevOps, security, systems administration, software development, cloud technology experience
- 1 or more industry-recognized security, cloud, or audit professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCSP, Amazon Cloud Practitioner
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