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 were 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.

About the team
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service unmatched technology and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customers unique challenges then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the worlds most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

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

Why AWS
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Work/Life Balance
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- 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
- Bachelors degree or 7 years of professional or military experience

- CISSP CISA CISM or other security certification

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