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

Overview

Amazon obsesses over customers, and delivering secure cloud solutions 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.

• Dive deep into the Amazon control environment to develop a broad domain and technical understanding of our security activities and control implementations to articulate compliance implications to both customers and internal/external audit functions.
• Develop an understanding of regulated industry compliance requirements and communicate how we control activities to meet global regulatory obligations.
• Liaise with customers, regulators, and auditors, articulate control implementation, and describe considerations for applying security and compliance concepts to monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve the organization by being a trusted advisor, facilitator, and creative problem solver.
• Implement continuous improvements to the security organization and the program management process. Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization.

• 5+ years of experience in big data, Dev Ops, security, systems administration, software development, or cloud technology.
• 1 or more industry‑recognized security, cloud, or audit professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCSP, Amazon Cloud Practitioner).

• 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 experience performing 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, energy, telecommunications).
• Business‑level proficiency in English (verbal and written) and Arabic language (verbal).

Must be a UAE National to be considered for this role.

You will have the opportunity to work directly with senior leadership within Amazon to improve our ability to demonstrate assurance for regulated customers. You will also enjoy working across many stakeholders, including internal and external customers, to design solutions for complex compliance challenges.

You’ll be working directly with customers to respond to their assurance needs, helping third‑party auditors understand the AWS control environment, or talking to regulators about how AWS views cloud security. You’ll also talk to AWS service teams about how the technology works under the hood and help translate that technology into meaningful security and compliance outcomes.