Security Leader, Global Proserve Security

Amazon; Canberra; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is looking for a Security Leader to join their Global Proserve Security team in Canberra, Australia. This role focuses on assisting clients in strengthening their security capabilities within cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in IT security, strong consulting skills, and the ability to engage with customers on complex security projects. Candidates should possess relevant certifications and have at least 5 years of cloud-based solution experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience.
• 10+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience.
• 5+ years of cloud-based solution experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver security advice and architecture guidance.
• Manage key customer relationships and engage in projects.
• Support the delivery of technical engagements with customers.

Skills

IT/cyber security

cloud computing concepts

consulting experience

security risk management

IT implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree or 7+ years of professional or military experience

CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification

Job description

Security Leader, Global Proserve Security

Are you a security focused professional who loves working with others on helping them understand, assess and uplift their security capabilities? Are you excited about assisting others implement security for their cloud journeys? If so, we are looking for you! 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 deliver customer engagements. AWS consultants will collaborate with customers to address security risk and achieve security outcomes, and implementing and migrating customer solutions and workloads onto cloud. AWS consultants will also have a drive to continue to learn and improve, including coaching/mentoring others. This role will specialise 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.

Required Experience and Credentials

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
• 10+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience
• 5+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
• 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification

EEO Statement

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