Project Leo is an Amazon initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of over 3,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities worldwide. At Project Leo, we are obsessed with customer trust and are seeking an individual contributor who is creative, and passionate about delivering Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions to meet Leo's regulatory and external assurance needs. In this role, you will work collaboratively with various business and security teams across Amazon to identify compliance needs, assess the maturity of processes and controls, design, build, and execute high-impact security or compliance programs and liaise with external auditors to ensure successful audit executions.
This role is open for Redmond, WA location.
The Security Compliance Specialist in Project Leo's Security team will drive regulatory and certification compliance requirements for our world-class cyber and information security throughout Leo's technology, systems, and infrastructure. This role is at the forefront of delivering highly secure space and terrestrial broadband telecommunication services for consumer, enterprise, telecom, transportation and government customers around the world.
The ideal candidate is technically experienced and innovative security, risk, compliance, and audit professional who has the ability to understand systems, security, and privacy processes, communicate to customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams. You have implemented NIST control frameworks, reviewed control activities, evidence collection, and liaised with auditors.
Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
- Play a key role in Leo Security and work closely with the Leo business and product community, setting direction for security of key assets, data, and business processes; serving as a subject matter expert resource for security engineers, security champions, and business leaders inside and outside of our organization
- Proactively assess, identify and develop recommendations regarding data protection, insider threat, data sharing, identity and access management, and third party risk issues and vulnerabilities by working with multiple stakeholder teams, including Privacy, Legal, HR, IT, etc
- Lead and execute internal security and data usage assessments, investigations and security audits, while also supporting enterprise wide information security and cyber risk assessments with technical and non-technical teams
- Contribute to the development of business risk, insider threat, and third party risk management strategic control requirements and roadmaps
- Contribute to new, and provide feedback on existing security standards and control requirements, GRC policy exceptions and risk issue management process
- Develop and maintain relevant security risk metrics to promote transparency across the organization; measures, monitors and reports on information security risks to management
- Provide guidance on risk, compliance, and policy to technical and non-technical internal customers, including security training and outreach to internal teams and external supply chain partners
- Apply your security and business knowledge to drive secure and pragmatic improvements broadly to Kuiper people, process, and assets, while making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to work in a multi-tasking dynamic environment while maintaining a high level of ownership and accountability is a must
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience triaging security risks or vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed or mitigated
- 3+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with GRC technology (SAP GRC Access Controls, Process Controls and Risk Management), SAP Identity Management to support Identity and Access Management (Single Sign ON, User life cycle management)
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Redmond - 102,000.00 - 178,400.00 USD annually
