Security Assurance Analyst, AWS

The AWS Cross Domain Services Operations team is seeking a Security Assurance Analyst with a strong understanding and awareness of the role assurance can play in delivering excellent services to our customers.

The Security Assurance Analyst will be part of the team that provides governance and controls to the the services that connect AWS regions of differing security classifications. This position will work as part of an assurance function, leading on day to day operational assurance activities, ensuring compliance with standards, processes and customer requirements.

At AWS we are obsessed with earning and maintaining customer trust. AWS is delivering exciting and complex distributed systems, and the AWS Cross Domain Services team is essential to how these are operated and secured. We need talented adaptable Security Assurance Analysts to help us implement and operate these complex systems. The role holder will have to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of information security, as well as undertaking of a wide range of internal security audits.

Key job responsibilities

• Establish monitoring and auditing to facilitate the analysis of the processes in place for data flow control

• Fulfil requests around evidence to illustrate the key controls that exist across the environment

• Ensure control frameworks and compliance risks are recorded and managed

• Analyse processes to determine compliance to the design specification (source to target) and expected/anticipated behaviours

• Participate in the creation and management of the internal controls, policies, and procedures

• Promote Information Security policy, procedures and practice, also act as an SME to ensure appropriate cyber security measures are incorporated.

• Develop and implement the data assurance and governance strategies to ensure data quality and compliance, and drive the adoption of these strategies into the business processes

• Communicate to key stakeholders the operational processes around AWS security practices and how controls are implemented across the environment

• Communicate to leadership key risks and areas of process improvement, as well as seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts

• Field and address requests in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

• Report, investigate and resolve non-compliance issues

• As part of this opportunity the role holder will be eligible for great training opportunities and certification.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Have experience in performing technical assessments of network, operating systems, application security, as well as auditing IT processes, including working knowledge of key controls across a number of industry best practices

• Proven analytical and quantitative skills, and an ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases, and complete root cause analyses

• Experience in security, audits, customer trust, control assessments, or risk assessments

• Demonstrate high judgement and risk decision making abilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Involvement in the delivery of projects and programs across multiple teams

• Strong critical thinking, verbal and written communication skills, and attention to detail

• Good presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

• Working knowledge of data analysis technologies

• Ability to work successfully in a team environment and build effective working relationships inside and outside of the group.

• Experience assessing complex technical processes.

• Highly organised

• Familiarity with web services, multi-tiered systems, workflow modelling and enterprise application integration

• Knowledge of a variety of security programs in multiple fields (personnel security, program security, physical security, and education, awareness, and training)

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