Security Compliance Specialist

About the Role

Amazon Leo (previously known as Project Kuiper) is an 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. The Leo Security team owns the security of product and operations of Leo end-to-end.

This role is for an individual contributor who is creative and passionate about delivering Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions to meet Leo's regulatory and external assurance needs. You will work collaboratively with various business and security teams across Amazon.

Locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA

Key Responsibilities

• Design and drive scalable processes within a GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) framework to ensure compliance with Leo's regulatory and contractual security and privacy requirements.
• Build and maintain compliance certifications such as ISO 27001, ISO 22301, NIST 800-53, ISO27701, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA.
• Identify applicable security controls, assess compliance gaps and readiness, develop remediation strategies, and drive remediation activities to completion.
• Drive certifications and assurance programs by liaising with external auditors and other Amazon security teams.
• Articulate control implementation and impact, and establish considerations for applying security and risk concepts to a highly technical and complex environment.
• Communicate to key stakeholders and leadership on controls implementation, audit results, compliance program metrics, key risks, and areas of program improvement.
• Seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
• Work closely with engineering, compliance, security, bizdev, and Legal teams to identify future compliance and regulatory requirements and define compliance solutions.
• Serve as an advisor on audit remediation issues.
• Understand and manage cross-functional GRC requirements to translate them into GRC tool.
• Be comfortable with hands-on day-to-day problem solving and implementing quick and effective action plans to meet short- and long-term priorities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST.
• 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).

Qualifications

• 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.
• Even if you do not meet all the qualifications and skills listed, you are encouraged to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.