Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about creating innovative solutions that solve challenging National Security problems? Do you like helping customers envision new ways of securing a cloud infrastructure? Do you have ideas for new ways to experience security operations instead of traditional lecture and documented best practice?
Amazon Web Services is looking for a passionate and innovative technical security, risk, and compliance thinker to help the expansion of our US Federal Security Professional Services team. This is a role for someone that is looking to change the way that AWS interacts with our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to create new security experiences and environments for our customers, covering topics including strategy and risk management, building and deploying security infrastructure, automating security operations, and beyond.
The ideal candidate should be a highly technical security professional who has the ability to take customers on a journey through securing their infrastructure. Has the ability to lead challenging security focused workstreams and be able to develop highly scalable applications that adhere to cloud and security best practices.
In this role you will:
• Deliver architecture guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects, and conduct customer/partner workshops.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to address the security, risk, and compliance needs of their AWS workloads.
• Specialize in all aspects of information security management as well as business and regulatory compliance using cloud services in large-scale computing environments.
This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
For additional information or to send your resume directly, please email Dan Hunt at dhuntmz@amazon.com
About the team
About AWS
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, 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
- 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- 7+ years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications or equivalent education experience
- 7+ years of defending workloads from threat actors with defensive tools and methodologies
- Technical degree or equivalent experience
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
Job Tags
Full time,