Security Consulting Leader

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 a Security Consulting Leader 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

• 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.

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.

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