Amazon · 22 hours ago
Senior Compliance Specialist - FedRAMP, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$107K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a highly motivated senior industry expert to join their Government Compliance and Authorization Team. This role involves leading strategic elements of the US Government Compliance Program, solving complex compliance challenges, and improving processes to meet regulatory expectations.
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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
Qualification
Required
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 program management, project management or product management experience
5+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience, or degree in advanced technology
3+ years of FedRAMP or NIST compliance program experience
Preferred
Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
Understanding and experience implementing/overseeing Government compliance requirements/programs such as FedRAMP, DoD CSP-SRG, CMMC
Experience working with US Government Compliance Frameworks/Programs including: FedRAMP, DoD SRG, NIST, ISO, FISMA, RMF, OSCAL
Experience performing FedRAMP advisory projects
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
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2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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