Senior DevSecOps Consultant, National Security Professional Services

Job summary
Are you a professional with hands-on experience building and automating processes for large-scale cloud applications and integrating security into their pipelines and process? Would you like to work with our customers to help them architect, develop, and secure their deployments to fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers use cloud computing to do big new things faster and at lower cost?

The ideal candidate should be a highly technical security professional who has the ability to take customers on a journey through securing their infrastructure.

We are hiring hands-on technical experts, who have experience and technical depth across the DevSecOps spectrum and can help our clients and partners deploy and operate their business-critical applications taking advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high-availability features of the AWS cloud all the while being more secure than we they started. Our consultants will collaborate with partner and client teams to deliver proof-of-concept projects, conduct topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions built with CDK/CloudFormation, Our Security Suite of Tools (SecurityHub, GuardDuty, etc.), and OpenSource tools (Prowler, CDK-NAG, checkov, etc.)

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen, must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. In compliance with the U.S. government requirement that employees of its contractors, and employees who work on or in connection with U.S government contracts must receive the COVID-19 vaccine, this position may require that the candidate selected be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. A person is considered fully vaccinated by completing the full regimen of the COVID-19 vaccine (two doses for Pfizer or Moderna and one dose for Johnson & Johnson).

**This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. In compliance with the U.S. government requirement that employees of its contractors, and employees who work on or in connection with U.S government contracts must receive the COVID-19 vaccine, this position may require that the candidate selected be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. A person is
considered fully vaccinated by completing the full regimen of the COVID-19 vaccine (two doses for Pfizer or Moderna and one dose for Johnson & Johnson).**

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

* 5+ years of experience, with at least 2 years designing and implementing CI/CD workflows, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Git in Production environments.
* 2+ years of hands-on experience with programming or scripting languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Ruby or Bash.
* 1+ years of experience with US Government compliance and security standards, including NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, ICD 503.
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
* Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

* AWS Associate or Professional or specialty certification or ability to get certified within three months of hire.
* Experience with more advanced DevOps practices, such as Observability, Fault Injection, DevSecOps, Blue/Green Deployments, etc.
* Experience with family of AWS Security offerings (AWS WAF, GuardDuty, Config, etc.)
* Experience deploying solutions using AWS CDK.
* Strong scripting skills, i.e., PowerShell, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
* Proficiency in driving a security focused software development lifecycle.
* Technical expertise (design and/or implementation) in Cloud Computing technologies.
* Ability to communicate complex topics to an audience with various functional knowledge.
* Experience enabling developers to deliver faster results through DevOps practices.
* Experience with Coding and Best Practices for the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
* Strong verbal and written communications skills. DevOps is about Development and Operations teams collaborating closely, so you will need these to tear some walls down.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.


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