DESCRIPTION

Are you excited to help us earn customer trust through delivery excellence and the implementation of security practices? Do you enjoy driving global initiatives within a fast-paced Professional Services organization?

Join us – a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History” and as a member of the AWS Professional Services team, you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications.

Our team works with AWS’s enterprise customers and partners to design, build, and improve & optimize their security posture, DevSecOps, and cloud infrastructure architecture to drive business results at a planetary scale. The Cloud Security Specialist opportunity is a hybrid role that entails consulting, effective customer-facing communication, and hands-on technical capabilities.

Key job responsibilities
– Define and deliver innovative compliance and risk management approaches to customers that help the customer understand how to move sensitive workloads onto the cloud faster. Build & deploy security infrastructure and automate security operations for customers.
– Innovate on behalf of customers; translate your thoughts into action yielding measurable results.
– Become a technical resource that earns our customers’ trust.
– Develop high-quality technical content such as tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our consultants, partners, and customers build on the work you deliver.
– Work with AWS engineering, support, and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.
– Help hire and onboard new contributors to scale the team.
– Collaborate on internal builder projects.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, 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.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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

– 8+ Years of experience in a technical position helping enterprise customers and 4+ Years developing and implementing security operations and technology in large, complex enterprises in multiple industry verticals, across a wide range of technology platforms or any Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, Google, others).
– Hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale.
– Experience in security principles such as least privilege access, defense in depth, preventative vs. detective controls, Infrastructure and Network Security, Data protection, and Incident response. Good technical knowledge of application security, system security, network security, authentication/authorization protocols, and cryptography.
– Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, libraries building, build processes, testing, and operations.
– Hands-on technical expertise in technology automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment using scripting and/or IaaC.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– AWS Solutions Architect Certified.
– AWS Security Speciality Certified.
– CISSP, CCSP, CISM, and/or other comparable certifications.
– Experience advising customers on industry standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27xxx, SOC, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST/DoD frameworks.
– Experience with agile approaches and Experience in DevOps or DevSecOps and how they impact risk management and compliance.