Senior Security Consultant, Professional Services, UK NatSec, WWPS

Are you interested in being part of AWS, the industry leading cloud computing platform? Are you excited about building security solutions at scale? Do you want to help UK public sector organisations operate safely in the cloud and better achieve their missions through the secure adoption of AWS? Eager to learn from many different organisations’ use cases of AWS security services? Our Worldwide Public Sector Professional Services organisation works together with our AWS customers to address their security needs.

At AWS, we’re hiring highly passionate and deeply technical Security Consultants to help our customers build comprehensive security models, transform how they secure their sensitive workloads and develop their technical expertise. Our security consultants deliver architecture guidance, develop security infrastructure and patterns in code, lead proof-of-concept projects, and conduct security workshops for customers. AWS security consultants collaborate with customers to address security and compliance challenges, and they help implement and migrate customer solutions and workloads onto AWS.
Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed with helping our customers succeed. We collaborate across the entire AWS organisation to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Solutions — You like working with customers to solve problems and identify opportunities. You’ll define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes understanding customer security and compliance requirements, proposing and delivering packaged security offerings, and helping to build bespoke security solutions to fit customers’ needs.

Expertise — Cloud is the new norm and customers are migrating increasingly more sensitive workloads to AWS. You’re an expert in operating within an enterprise security program and developing a security model in the AWS cloud – identity and access management, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, data protection, and incident response.

Delivery — As a consultant you will often go on-site to customers to deliver projects proving the use of AWS services and security technology to support information security in the cloud. Sometimes you might help migrate existing applications; sometimes you might help them develop new applications using AWS cloud services.

Insights — You’ll work with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.

Practice Development — Helping customers is our number one goal – but it’s not our only goal. With each engagement, you’re looking for ways to collect, capture, package and share your knowledge with new customers, partners, and AWS employees. You are a force-multiplier – developing tools, services, and new artefacts that help others build on the work you deliver.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Amazon offices.

Basic Qualifications

– Significant experience in IT security, compliance and risk management, including privacy, controls, etc.
– Proven and significant experience working with security reference architectures for all-in cloud deployments and/or hybrid scenarios
– Understanding architectural implications of meeting industry standards such as ISO 27001, UK Official
– Hands-on technical expertise in building AWS cloud security capabilities in code and deploying infrastructure in code
– Implementation experience with enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, and SIEM

Preferred Qualifications

– Experience in supporting internal and external customers. You understand what it means to draw out critical customer needs and focus your knowledge and creativity to deliver practical outcomes addressing those needs.
– Experience building enterprise security strategy for cloud adoption or driving the program’s evolution to meet new requirements
– AWS Certifications, e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Security Specialty.
– Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organisations
– Understanding of enterprise risk management methods and techniques to drive successful outcomes in complex public sector or highly regulated organisations
– Degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Math background preferred

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