Snr Security Consultant, - Global Accounts, Professional Services, AWSI-SDT-APJ-Japan
DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Web Services Industry (AWSI) Professional Services Japan team is a consulting organization that works with our global enterprise customers in various industries to achieve their business outcomes securely and faster in the cloud. Through project-based support, our security consultants work with our customers on innovative solutions that promote cloud technology for the purpose of solving customer business problems faster and for long-term business expansion.
The AWSI Professional Services Japan team is seeking a Senior Security Consultant who can lead a variety of customer engagements, including building security strategies and roadmaps, architecture design and implementation support technical assessments, incident response and security control implementation support. You will work with AWS sales, engineering, training & certifications and support teams as well as partners to provide technical assistance to customers to ensure they are successful in achieving their security business outcomes on AWS. This includes leading pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements, and proposing and delivering security solution in customer engagements. These Global Engagements include short on-site or remote projects leading to architecture or compliance roadmaps, security guidelines, security gap assessments, security architecture and design reviews as well as implementation of security controls and services.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Security Consultant, you have solid consulting, technology management, or service operations experience in the field of Cyber Security. You have experience in the design/implementation in multiple areas of Cyber Security, such as Identity and Access management, Infrastructure Security, Data Security, Application Security or Incident Detection and Response. You’ve been hands-on as a software developer, system administrator, network engineer, or systems architect and have experience leading larger delivery teams or other IT and Cyber Security professionals. You have an good technical understanding of Cloud and IT systems and are familiar with the advantages of commercial cloud, zero-trust architectures, secure software development practices, and application of advanced technologies.
This role requires effective verbal and written communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work backwards from ambiguous requirements to distill vast amounts of information into clear, concise communications. The right candidate is data-driven, comfortable working effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and is adaptable managing priorities and working effectively across a number of internal stakeholders. This role involves frequent engagement with both customer’s technical and business stakeholder and a candidate who can effectively influence multiple internal and external teams and is viewed as a trusted advisor.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
- 7+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience
- 3+ years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience
- 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders (Japanese language preferred along with English as second language)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in consulting, design and implementation of serverless distributed solutions
- Experience in software development with object oriented language
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