AWS Security & Compliance Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in AWS Security & Compliance and DevSecOps solutions
  • Proven software/technology customer-facing experience
  • Strong understanding of AWS security tools and services
  • Legally authorized to work in the US without employer sponsorship
  • Proficiency in programming languages like Python and Java

Responsibilities

  • Guide customers in their cloud adoption journey and provide strategic advice
  • Design and implement security solutions on AWS for clients
  • Develop reference architectures and automation tools to aid customers
  • Support the creation of technical documentation and briefs
  • Drive brand development through thought leadership initiatives

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Opportunity for professional growth in cloud security
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Chance to contribute to high-impact customer projects
Full Job Description
Summary

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee in our work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of software systems. He/she will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed, testable code.

As an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience and organization skills needed to drive customer success.

Responsibilities
  • Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide our customers with technical and strategic guidance on their "cloud journey".
  • Consult, plan, design, and implement security solutions on the cloud customers
    • Design and automate security and compliance solutions
    • Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust
    • Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud
    • Innovate on behalf of customers and translate your thoughts into action yielding measurable results.
  • Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps. Share real world implementation challenges and recommend expansion of capabilities through enhanced and new offerings.
    • Assist with technical briefs that document solutions
    • Assist with reference architecture implementations
  • Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership:
    • Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts
    • Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies

Qualifications
  • Professional experience architecting/operating automated Security & Compliance / DevSecOps solutions built on AWS
  • Experience in software/technology customer facing experience
  • You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Sample Activities You'll Do

Creating a Self-Service Account Framework
  • Assist Customer with organizational hierarchy design and configuration templates
  • Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples
  • Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of AWS account setup and configuration
    • Account Framework - Developing an automated Continuous Delivery Pipeline framework that will be used to establish AWS Accounts to configured, tested infrastructure on AWS in a repeatable, reliable and secure manner eliminating the need for manual intervention.
    • Security Control Policies - Development of the Service Control Policies and account baselines associated with the Customer's security and compliance requirements
  • Assist Customer with the development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook

Creating Security Threat Analytics and Dashboard Solutions
  • Creating a framework to automatically gather, transform and interpret security event data in AWS.
  • Selecting, defining, identifying security requirements and determine where:
    • Macie can be leveraged
    • GuardDuty can be leveraged
    • Inspector can be leveraged
    • Security Hub can be leveraged
    • Alternative security products can be leveraged
  • Codify the provisioning of security analytics and reporting workflow:
    • Implement Security Hub with in a central account with inputs from all accounts
    • Implement GuardDuty for global security events
    • Implement Macie for detection of sensitive data in 23 buckets
    • Develop AWS Config rules to enforce security configurations in CIS AWS Foundations standard
    • Implementing Inspector to gather findings from EC2 instances
    • Enable CloudTrail for monitoring API activity
    • Enable FlowLogs for VPC traffic

Creating a Self-Service Compliance Framework
  • Selecting tools for building Policy-as-Code controls (preventative, detective, and responsive)
  • Development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for controls
  • Development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of controls:
    • Policy Definition - Identification and documentation of Customer Policy in the form of specific statements that must be true about configuration of AWS resources
    • Policy-as-Code Development - Development of the logical tests associated with each of the policies established to be used to assert the configuration state of infrastructure on AWS in order to block a build in the pipeline, take automated reactive action, or alert on violations to the policy
    • Framework Development - A design allowing for the execution of logical tests against infrastructure code or running AWS infrastructure in order to assert the configuration state of infrastructure resources on AWS and block a build in the pipeline, take automated reactive action, or alert on violations to the policy
  • Development of a report and supporting sample code addressing the controls as part of the playbook

Relevant Technical Tools
  • Primary Languages - Python, Java, Bash
  • Tooling, Services & Libraries - Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Splunk, OWASP, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, Fortify, Twistlock, Aqua Security

Relevant AWS Services
  • AWS Infrastructure Scripting - CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS CDK
  • AWS Storage Services - S3
  • AWS Compute Services - Lambda, EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR
  • AWS Networking Services - VPC, Route53, API Gateway, Direct Connect
  • AWS Developer Services - CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy
  • AWS Management and Governance Services - Control Tower, Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Config, CloudTrail, Service Catalog, Systems Manager
  • AWS Security, Identity, Compliance Services - IAM, Inspector, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, Detective, GuardDuty, Macie, HSM, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield, Firewall Manager, Detective
  • AWS Frameworks - Landing Zone

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