Are you a Security and Compliance specialist who can address the challenges of migrating systems and workloads to the public cloud? Are you skilled at helping customers and partners to address their information security requirements using cloud computing architectures? Do you want to learn the very latest in cloud web services technologies and apply them to some of the most interesting computing workloads in the world?

At AWS, we’re hiring Security Consultants to help our customers and partners develop technical expertise and capacity, and to work with our partners on key customer engagements. Our security consultants will manage key customer relationships, deliver security advice and architecture guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects, and conduct customer workshops. AWS consultants will collaborate with customers to address security risk and compliance challenges, and implementing and migrating customer solutions and workloads onto AWS. AWS consultants will also have a drive to continue to learn and improve.

This role will specialize in all aspects of information/cyber security management, as well as business and regulatory compliance using cloud web services in large scale computing environments.

Responsibilities:

Expertise - Knowledge of cloud technologies and the ability to collaborate with a broad range of AWS teams, including field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services (such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB/RDS databases, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security, Identity, & Compliance, etc).
Solutions - Provide advice and support the delivery technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings, and delivering custom solution engagements.
Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of AWS services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services, and how to ensure security is managed appropriately.
Business development - Contribute and lead engagements and initiatives to assist with growing the Professional Services Security business.
Insights - Work with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
Management - Contribute to the management of the practice, including knowledge transfer and mentoring.
Quality - Providing assurance services to ensure we understand and manage the quality of security and delivery outcomes internally and externally, including technical activities such as solution review.

Key job responsibilities
Experience in IT/cyber security, security or compliance and security risk management, including privacy, controls, etc.
Sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies and/or workload transition.
Notable consulting experience and collaboration skills.
Experience advising customers on architectures and practices meeting industry standards/frameworks, such as PSPF, ISM, ISO 27k, SOC, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, etc.
Familiarity with availability concepts and archive, backup/recovery and business continuity processes.
Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
Consulting and/or implementation experience with enterprise security solutions such as identity management, federation systems, WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, and SIEM.
Technical expertise in security architecture, automation, integration, and deployment (DevOps).
Highly technical and analytical, including potentially possessing IT implementation experience.
Experience building enterprise security strategy, including for cloud adoption or driving the evolution to meet new requirements.
Currently hold, or have the ability to obtain a government security clearance.