3P Security Specialist III, Third Party Security, Third Party Security

This position is available in Bangalore, India
The Third Party Security (TPS) team looking for a highly motivated Security Specialist III. 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
- Acting as subject matter expert on risk-based security reviews and assessments
- Conducting peer reviews and sample testing to maintain a high-bar of quality for risk assessments
- Ensuring the risk assessment framework is up to date on the latest industry controls and applicable threats
- Coordinating contractors, employees, and vendors in conducting assessments, testing controls, and implementing remediation
- 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
- Reviewing exceptions to Amazon policy and determining risk and impact
- Serving as an advisor on security & compliance issues for operations staff
- 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.
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.
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.
Mentorship and 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
- 5-7+ years of technical risk assessment experience and bachelor’s degree in information security, computer science, risk Management, or additional equivalent technology experience.
- Experience running complex assessments across multiple security domains, creating findings, and reviewing remediation items.
- Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work well on a largely geographically distributed.
- Ability to effectively coordinate between and communicate with technical teams and business (non-tech) stakeholders.
- Strong customer focus, ownership, sense of urgency and drive, demonstrate innovative security approaches in non-traditional IT environments.
- CISSP, CISA, or related Information Security certification.
- Consistent demonstration of utilizing automation to solve recurring problems at scale.