AWS Support

About the role

This Cloud Security Consultant role focuses on facilitating security efforts, remediating vulnerabilities, and partnering with application teams to identify and close security gaps. The consultant will help develop policies and assist development teams in implementing solutions to meet enterprise security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Keep development teams accountable to metrics measuring risk
• Understand security requirements and risk tolerance baselines
• Track existing risk statements and work with risk owners to close gaps
• Maintain current knowledge on existing security procedures, directives, and technology controls including application testing, threat modeling, attack and penetration testing, data classification, and data handling

Requirements

• Basic understanding of AWS
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• 1–3 years of practical cloud experience
• 1–3 years of “level 2” IT operations experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3 years of IT security operations experience
• Experience with the Prisma Cloud toolset (Redlock, Twistlock, PureSec)
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Professional information security certification (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GISCP, GWAPT, GWEB, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills; demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical security concepts to non-security audiences
• Strong understanding and experience with information security technologies
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams in accomplishing process review and improvement
• Additional Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)
• Web Application Firewall experience
• Experience with a wide variety of information security processes and principles, such as:
  • Defense in depth
  • SDLC and product development processes
  • Identity and access management
  • Business process design
  • Web services security

Skills

• Excellent communication and work prioritization skills

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan – pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life insurance (voluntary life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short- and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time off/leave (PTO, vacation, or sick leave)

Pay

The pay range for this position is $35.00 – $35.00/hr. Individual compensation offered within this range will depend on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Schedule

This is a fully onsite position in Dallas, TX.