Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant to join our team as a full-time remote employee. This role involves end-to-end planning, building, and deploying software systems, with a focus on driving the programming of well-constructed, testable code.
As an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, you will implement technical solutions for customer engagements, requiring strong teamwork, communication, patience, and organization skills to ensure customer success.
At Vertical Relevance, we deliver excellence through teamwork, automation, continuous learning, and ownership of outcomes. Are you ready to join us?
Responsibilities
- Guide customers in adopting the cloud and provide technical and strategic guidance on their cloud journey.
- Consult, plan, design, and implement security solutions on cloud platforms.
- Design and automate security and compliance solutions.
- Become a deep technical resource to earn customer trust.
- Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers.
- Innovate for customers and translate ideas into measurable results.
- Support solution development by conveying customer needs to technology roadmaps and sharing implementation challenges.
- Assist with technical briefs and reference architecture implementations.
- Contribute to brand development through thought leadership, including writing blog posts and case studies.
Qualifications
- Experience architecting/operating automated Security & Compliance / DevSecOps solutions on AWS.
- Customer-facing software/technology experience.
- Knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS, policy-as-code frameworks (OPA), compliance-as-code strategies, and custom controls.
- Expertise in audit readiness, evidence collection, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting.
- Familiarity with Agile project governance and backlog management.
Sample Activities
Creating a Self-Service Account Framework
- Assist customers with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates.
- Develop referenceable playbooks and sample code for AWS account setup and configuration automation.
Creating Security Threat Analytics and Dashboard Solutions
- Create frameworks for security event data analysis in AWS.
- Select and leverage AWS security services like Macie, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Security Hub.
- Automate security analytics and reporting workflows.
Creating a Self-Service Compliance Framework
- Build Policy-as-Code controls and develop supporting playbooks and runbooks.
- Define policies, develop logical tests, and automate compliance assertions.
Primary Languages and Technologies
- Python, Java, Bash, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK.
- AWS services: S3, Lambda, EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Direct Connect, Control Tower, Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Config, CloudTrail, Service Catalog, Systems Manager, IAM, Inspector, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, Detective, GuardDuty, Macie, HSM, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield, Firewall Manager.
The Company
Vertical Relevance helps businesses drive value through transformation programs. We offer strategy, design, implementation, and training services, with industry expertise in Financial Services and Customer Experience. We focus on delivering rapid, tangible improvements and leverage product partnerships for CRM, analytics, and cloud transformation.
Vertical Relevance is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants without discrimination based on sex, gender, race, religion, or other protected characteristics.