Security jobs in United States

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (AWS ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Senior Delivery Consultant to join our Cloud Security team. As a Senior Security Consultant, you’ll work closely with customers to design, implement, and automate solutions in AWS to protect customer assets, enable customer security teams to operate more effectively, and ensure customers don’t accept unnecessary risk. You will work in fast-paced, complex projects that focus on delivering transformative business and security outcomes for customers globally. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled technical security professional with the ability to coach and guide executive security and cloud leaders in their journey, addressing topics such as security strategy and optimizing cloud security operations while being able to dive deep into AWS security technology. Along the way, you’ll be expected to invent, extend, and adapt technology to tailor solutions to customer needs as well as coach and mentor junior consultants to enable their success.
The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.



Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional, you will be expected to:
1. Act as the technical leader for customer engagements and/or the security workstreams of engagements, leading teams of consultants.
2. Lead internal initiatives to deliver quantifiable impact
3. Develop strategic relationships with internal and external leaders
4. Design and implement complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
5. Enable and engage delivery partners in project delivery
6. Provide mentorship and coaching to develop others


About the team
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.


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- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture and implementation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ year(s) of experience in IT security, compliance, or risk management
- 5+ years experience in technology automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment

- AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
- AWS Professional level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
- Experience with automation and scripting (e.g. Terraform, Python)
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Work experience in any of the following industries: financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or other segments), automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media & entertainment, or manufacturing.
- Hands-on technical expertise in building security capabilities in code, deploying infrastructure as code, and implementing enterprise security solutions (e.g. WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, SIEM)

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