AWS Security & Compliance Consultant

AWS Security & Compliance Consultant

Our client, a 3rd-generation management consulting firm, is now looking to add to their team. They are hiring an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant. This position is available in New York or New Jersey office or 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 SecOps 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 o Design and automate security and compliance solutions o Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust o Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud o 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. o Assist with technical briefs that document solutions o Assist with reference architecture implementations

Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership: o Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts o 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

Assist Customer in creating a framework to automatically gather, transform and interpret security event data in AWS. Assist Customer in selecting defining Identify security requirements and determine where: o Macie can be leveraged o GuardDuty can be leveraged o Inspector can be leveraged o Security Hub can be leveraged o Alternative security products can be leveraged

Codify the provisioning of security analytics and reporting workflow: o Implement Security Hub with in a central account with inputs from all accounts o Implement GuardDuty for global security events o Implement Macie for detection of sensitive data in 23 buckets o Develop AWS Config rules to enforce security configurations in CIS AWS Foundations standard o Implementing Inspector to gather findings from EC2 instances o Enable CloudTrail for monitoring API activity o Enable FlowLogs for VPC traffic

Creating a Self-Service Compliance Framework

Assist in selecting tools for building Policy-as-Code controls (preventative, detective, and responsive) Assist Customer in the development of referenceable playbooks, supported by relevant code examples for controls Assist Customer in the development of sample runbooks to automate the implementation of controls: o Policy Definition Identification and documentation of Customer Policy in the form of specific statements that must be true about configuration of AWS resources o 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 o 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 Assist Customer with the 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