Security Consultant, Global Proserve Security

At AWS, we're hiring an experienced Security Consulting professional to help our customers and partners develop technical expertise and capacity, and to work with our partners on key customer engagements.

Our consultants deliver security advice, architecture guidance, and security engineering; lead proof-of-concept projects; and deliver customer engagements. AWS consultants collaborate with customers to address security risk, achieve security outcomes, and implement and migrate customer solutions and workloads to the cloud. AWS consultants also have a drive to continue to learn and improve, including coaching and mentoring others.

This role specialises in all aspects of information and cyber security management, as well as business and regulatory compliance using cloud services in large-scale computing environments.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as the technical leader for customer engagements, particularly the security workstreams, leading teams of consultants.
• Design and implement complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Lead internal security initiatives that deliver quantifiable impact, and develop strategic relationships with internal and external security leaders.
• Enable and engage delivery partners to support secure project delivery and drive adoption of security best practices.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to develop others in cloud security, compliance, and risk management.

A day in the life

You'll work with colleagues, customers, and partners to design, develop, and implement security solutions that solve real-world problems. You'll have full access to all of AWS's infrastructure and agentic AI tools. You'll spend your days innovating, building, and deploying industry-leading technology.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and 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

Basic Qualifications

• Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• 5+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience, or Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• 2+ years of hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
• Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
• Knowledge of and experience with cloud infrastructure technologies
• Experience in web security, or experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem and experience with threat modeling and penetration testing
• CISSP, CISA, CISM or other security certification, or GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials) or Security+