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Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 18 hours ago

Senior Compliance Specialist - FedRAMP, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$107K/yr - $230K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon Web Services (AWS) prioritizes security and 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, addressing complex compliance challenges, and improving processes to meet regulatory expectations.

Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

FedRAMP complianceNIST complianceProgram managementRisk managementGovernment complianceProject managementWritten communicationVerbal communicationTechnical documentation

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 Web Services (AWS)

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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.

Founded in 2002

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees