Cloud Security - Senior Associate - CyberOps & Assurance

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American Express is on an exciting cloud transformation journey driven today by a successful, high-energy, delivery-focused team that enables our vision of “security-as-code” and integrations across a diverse set of teams and tools to ensure public cloud security equivalency with on-premises security capabilities, methods, and processes for all cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and workloads. The Cloud Security Sr. Associate will collaboratively lead the Strategic Program Management, Governance, and Operations functions of the technology risk and cyber security controls and capabilities required to secure the American Express cloud journey, including both our private/public cloud. The Cloud Security Sr. Associate will play a key role in leading cloud security compliance initiatives across American Express’s private and public cloud environments. This position will focus on ensuring adherence to regulatory, audit, and internal policy requirements by working collaboratively across security domain teams, technology partners, and external cloud providers. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving cloud compliance strategy, governance, and oversight, with a primary emphasis on preparing and delivering audit responses for cloud security. This includes coordinating with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Operations, Information Security teams, and enterprise risk partners to ensure alignment with a standardized, risk-based compliance model.

Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the implementation of processes and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to information security standards and methodologies; facilitate migration of non-compliant environments to compliant environments
• Leads and prepares materials (reports, presentations, spreadsheets, etc) to enable informed decision-making; guide the verification of completeness, accuracy and relevance of data gathered
• Maintains internal documentation to ensure that process and other documentation is regularly updated to reflect the latest operational processes and requirements
• Provides analytical guidance as needed for issue management, project assessments, and reporting
• Facilitates and collaborates with cross-functional teams for finding remediation efforts
• Provides advice on controls, standards, processes, and procedures
• Deliver a broad range of communications including technology strategy updates, and employee communications
• Drive organizational optimization and business process improvement
• Act as a mentor and coach for employees and assist them in solving business problems
• Execute on operational risk activities such as conducting risk assessment with the business, mapping of processes, identification of risks, and definition and testing of controls
• Engages and Coordinates audit related activities
• Keeps abreast of Regulatory changes and requirements.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in Information Security Roles
• Experience with Cloud Control Matrix and CIS benchmarks for gap assessment
• Broad understanding of all IS disciplines including, Governance, Cyber Threat, Identity and Access, Infrastructure, Endpoint, Vulnerability, Data Protection, Operations, Application, Incident Response.
• Experience working with auditors and regulators
• Understanding of Cloud Fundamentals, including containers, software-defined networks, high availability design, multi-cloud, and serverless compute.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile environments, application design, software development, and testing.

Educational Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience
• Information Security Certification preferred, CISM or similar.

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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