Senior Security Assurance Specialist , AWS Compliance and Security Assurance EMEA
Amazon· AWS Security / Compliance and Security Assurance
LondonFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior level security assurance role focusing on demonstrating and scaling security controls for AWS services to meet local regulatory requirements in the EMEA region. Combines audit, compliance, and technical security expertise to engage customers, regulators, and internal teams, driving continuous improvements to the security program and governance across multiple organizations.
Responsibilities
- 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 both customers and internal/external audit functions.
- Develop 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.
- Apply a working knowledge of global information security regulation and policy to articulate customer and control impact and drive alignment to Amazon controls.
Qualifications
- - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent technology experience
- - Experience in Business English skills, both verbal and written
- - 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)
- - information security professional certification (SANS GIAC, CISSP etc.), or CCSP, CEH, CFR, Cloud+, CySA+, GCED, GICSP, PenTest+
- - Experience conducting IT audits based on ISAE 3402 and/or auditing in ISO standards (27001/22301), UK Cyber Essentials+
Skills
Required:Auditing and ComplianceRegulatory KnowledgeStakeholder Management
Benefits
- Diversity and inclusion focused culture
- Mentorship & career growth
- Flexible work life balance
- Access to internal leadership and cross-team collaboration
- Industry-leading security benefits and training opportunities
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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