Security Industry Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Security & Security Assurance

Amazon is hiring a Security Industry Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Security & Security Assurance in Dublin, Ireland. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, security assurance and compliance.
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Drive security compliance, risk assessments, and tooling automation across AWS services for regulated markets.

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At AWS, Security is priority zero. As part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security team, we are looking for a technically deep Industry Specialist who is passionate about owning far-reaching projects to drive continuous improvement across AWS at unparalleled scale. As a part of AWS Compliance and Security Assurance you’ll have an opportunity to operate in a constantly changing environment, working with AWS business and engineering teams on business-critical, security projects and programs. We work across AWS to drive strategic security initiatives, design and deliver tooling and automation, and continue to raise the bar on security at AWS. Our team also drives programs to enable customers that operate in regulated markets, such as Healthcare, Finance, Government, etc.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Develop a deep understanding of the operational services, processes, and controls in place that support AWS's security posture.
- Understand our Risk and Control Library and how it relates to our assessment processes.
- Perform service, feature, and other related assessment work for customer and audit requirements.
- Work with service, infrastructure and administrative teams to develop and deliver tooling that improves AWS's security posture.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and high risk areas.
- Work with service owners to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Manage the build and deployment of new tooling to streamline and automate security-related initiatives.
- Support process improvement and security-related projects in coordination with service teams.
- Manage communications to service teams and stakeholders.

A day in the life
- Dive deep into the AWS control environment to develop technical understanding of control implementation, and articulate compliance implications to internal and external audit functions.
- Set strategic direction, improve documentation, track progress, coordinate improvement efforts, and monitor process improvement effectiveness.
- Develop broad domain and technical knowledge in AWS security solutions including the operational processes and controls in place that support AWS compliance programs.
- Monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve the organization by being a trusted advisor, facilitator and creative problem solver.
- Develop and share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.
- Liaise with auditors, articulate control implementation and impact, and establish considerations for applying security, privacy and compliance concepts to a technical cloud environment.
- Effectively communicate compliance program results, including assessment status, workflow, remediation, and reporting, to a broad audience including peers and senior leaders.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates 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.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- Experience with technology risk, IT security audit, compliance and/or relevant regulatory knowledge
- Experience performing technical audits/assessments in direct support of a major compliance effort (e.g., ISO, NIST, SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and other regulatory/industry certifications)
- Bachelor's degree or above in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with audit or risk program design, control environment process documentation, and control mapping
- Experience communicating with customers, technical, regulatory, business teams, and management to collect requirements, describe product features, and technical designs
- Experience defining roadmap strategy and prioritizing deliverables for your team products
- Experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment, or experience working with stakeholders

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

How we rate this

Security Industry Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Security & Security Assurance at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Security Industry Specialist (Regulatory Operations Center), AWS Security & Security Assurance is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IE, D, Dublin.
The job was posted on October 13, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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