Regulatory & Security Compliance Lead, ANZ, Compliance & Security Assurance

Overview

Regulatory & Security Compliance Lead, ANZ, Compliance & Security Assurance
Job ID: 3089717 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Amazon obsesses over customers; delivering results for customers is what we do. We are looking for independent, passionate, and deeply experienced professionals in the Security, Compliance and Assurance domain to provide depth in assisting our partners, customers and their stakeholders to understand and address their security, regulatory and compliance requirements in moving their sensitive workloads and heavily regulated data into the cloud.

This candidate should be a technically experienced and innovative security/compliance professional who has the ability to handle a wide range of regulatory and government security and privacy requirements and can translate those requirements into applications for cloud computing. This position will have high visibility at the most senior levels of government agencies, financial institutions, and AWS including frequent interaction with Regulators, CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership to ensure compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies. This role, as part of the AWS Compliance & Security Assurance team in Australia, requires the ability to develop long-term projects and define processes and methods to ensure execution and productivity across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including customers and regulatory agencies. This role can be based in Sydney, Melbourne or Canberra.

Responsibilities

- Serve as an expert to AWS, customers, auditors, and regulators on regional and domestic regulations on security, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, technology, outsourcing and operational resilience in the industry.
- Anticipate new or potential laws and regulations for potential impact to AWS and our customers and develop appropriate mitigation and implementation approaches. Escalate and manage escalations as necessary.
- Develop and execute long-term security and compliance projects and initiatives, which may have broad scope and complexity, for AWS and AWS' regulated customers.
- Innovate to develop mechanisms that continuously improve the customer experience of security assurance.
- Perform compliance impact and market assessments of emerging compliance programs.
- Develop thought leadership material on cloud and emerging technologies for regulators, internal teams and customers.
- Track and report on changes to security controls and requirements standards across the region.
- Manage tight deadlines and drive for results, while being extremely detail oriented.
- Prepare project plans and track projects through fruition.
- Support metrics, implement data collection mechanisms, analyze data and make recommendations.
- Successful applicant must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years experience in regulatory compliance, banking or non-banking supervision and examination, or government agencies involved in cybersecurity management and/or operations.
- A track record of experience in work related to security assurance, such as cybersecurity, audit or security architecture.
- Experience in program design and management.
- Advanced degree in related area of study (Computer Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, IT Security Management).
- Familiarity with cloud computing, technology risks, security and outsourcing.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working on governance, risk and compliance programs that involve direct engagement with regulators.
- Demonstrated technical avcumen in software engineering, security engineering, or cloud architecture, as well as experience leveraging AI to improve productivity.
- Experience working with or consulting on cloud migrations with a security risk assessment or architectural focus.
- Experience working with sensitive or classified systems of government.
- Demonstrated understanding of privacy, security and resilience requirements across regulated sectors of government, financial services and national critical infrastructure.

Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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