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3P Security Specialist II, Third Party Security

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Austin, Texas, USA
$91.8K a year
Full-time

The Third Party Security (TPS) team looking for a highly motivated Security Specialist II. TPS is responsible for assessing the security of third party who get access to Amazon’s data, to determine if the third party meets Amazon’s security bar.

If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.

Key job responsibilities

  • Performing risk-based security reviews and assessments of use cases involving third party vendors
  • Collecting / reviewing data from multiple sources to assess a third party's security
  • Building, evolving, and improving sustainable processes and measurement systems to ensure that security policy requirements are maintained
  • Preparing reports for senior management on the state of vendor compliance
  • Maintaining a broad understanding of the global regulatory landscape impacting Amazon
  • Advising project and legal teams on ensuring the required security terms are in contracts and participate in contract negotiations with sensitive external partners at a global level
  • Determining strategy for highly sensitive and / or high profile assessments
  • Maintaining metrics on global vendor security and compliance
  • Ensuring the team delivers on security goals, and make recommendations for incremental process improvement
  • Occasional travel may be required

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

  • Technical knowledge in two or more security domains such as engineering, system and network security authentication, or security protocols
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent, or any bachelor’s degree combined with a relevant certification such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, TPRCA, CC (Certified in Cybersecurity), or PCIP
  • 5+ years of relevant Information Security experience
  • 2+ years of technical Risk Assessment experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • CISSP, CISA, or related Information Security certification
  • Consistent demonstration of utilizing automation to solve recurring problems at scale
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
  • Excellent leadership, teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis, and making complex business / risk trade-off recommendations and decisions
  • 30+ days ago
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