Senior Security Assurance Specialist, UAE, AWS Compliance and Security Assurance

Amazon obsesses over customers, and delivering secure cloud solutions for customers is our priority. We are looking for a cybersecurity professional with security assurance and compliance experience to support AWS's cybersecurity initiatives in the UAE region.

In this role, the successful candidate will enjoy working across many stakeholders, including internal and external customers, to design solutions for complex compliance challenges. You are passionate about the security of the cloud and you want to solve real business problems.

We have a team culture that encourages ownership, diversity, inclusion, and innovation. We expect team members and management alike to take a high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. We expect this person to balance their unique perspective with those of the diverse perspectives of the team and its stakeholders. You will have an opportunity to work directly with senior leadership within Amazon to improve our ability to demonstrate assurance for regulated customers.

You should be a technically experienced and innovative security, compliance, and audit professional who has the ability to understand IT processes, communicate clearly and transparently with customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

**You should be UAE National to be considered for this role.**

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responsibilities

As part of the team, you will work with customers and regulators to demonstrate Amazon security controls applicable to local requirements. You will join our team in helping customers understand how our infrastructure is designed, operated, maintained, and protected in accordance with global regulated industry standards.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following activities:

• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to articulate compliance implications to…

• 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 working experience in performing and/or participating in IT audits and assessments of highly technical cloud-based environments.
• 5+ years working in highly regulated industries (e.g. financial services, healthcare, and energy, telecommunications).
• Business level proficiency in English (verbal and written) and Arabic language (verbal)
• 5+ years of one or more of the following: big data, DevOps, security, systems administration, software development, cloud technology experience
• 1 or more industry-recognized security, cloud, or audit professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCSP, Amazon Cloud Practitioner

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