Security Consultant, 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 an experienced Security Consulting professional to help our customers and partners develop technical expertise and capacity, and to work with our partners on key customer engagements. Our 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.

Must hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see https://www1.defence.gov.au/security/clearances).

Key job responsibilities
- Deliver IT/cyber security, security or compliance and security risk management, including privacy, controls, etc.
- Provide advice and support to customers regarding cloud computing concepts, technologies and/or workload transition.
- Guide customers on architectures and practices meeting industry standards/frameworks, such as PSPF, ISM, ISO 27k, SOC, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, etc.
- Manage availability concepts and archive, backup/recovery and business continuity processes.
- Deliver consulting and/or implementation with enterprise security solutions such as identity management, federation systems, WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, and SIEM.
- Provide technical expertise in security architecture, automation, integration, and deployment (DevOps).
- Build enterprise security strategy, including for cloud adoption or driving the evolution to meet new requirements.

A day in the life
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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Work/Life Balance - We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of IT implementation experience
- Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
- Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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