AWS Security Risk Manager

About the role

Located in Houston with additional offices in Atlanta - Peachtree Rd, Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Tampa. Protiviti’s career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver. At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to translate complex business and data requirements into practical AWS Security solutions.
• Develop trusted client relationships.
• Mentor Consultants and Senior Consultants.
• Contribute to proposals.
• Help expand Protiviti’s AWS data engineering capabilities.

Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on security experience across cloud and/or enterprise environments.
• 2+ years of consulting or professional services delivery experience and 1+ year of direct AWS experience in a security-focused capacity.
• Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Prior delivery experience in a large, regulated enterprise environment (financial services strongly preferred); comfortable operating under change-control and audit scrutiny.
• Able to produce clear written documentation (architecture decision records, security patterns, runbooks) suitable for client Tech Risk review.
• Strong stakeholder communication; can work directly with client engineering, security, and compliance teams as an embedded SME.
• Works to the stated engagement location / time-zone overlap and follows AWS ProServe and client onboarding, security, and vetting requirements.
• Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise data platforms and pipelines on AWS.
• Strong client advisory, facilitation, executive communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, IS, Comp Sci., etc.).
• 5+ years working in professional services or industry.
• Professional Certification Required: AWS