AWS DevSecOps /Security & Compliance Cloud Consultant

Vertical Relevance•Clinton, MD

1d•Remote

About The Position

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Security & Compliance Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee in our 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 Security & Compliance 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. At Vertical Relevance we deliver with excellence through teamwork, automating everything, constantly learning and taking ownership for the outcomes our customers experience. Are you ready to join the team?

Requirements

Professional experience architecting/operating automated Security & Compliance / DevSecOps solutions built on AWS
Experience in software/technology customer facing experience
Knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS
Proficiency in policy-as-code frameworks (OPA)
Experience designing compliance-as-code strategies and custom controls (SCPs, Config Rules)
Strong audit-readiness advisory and evidence-collection expertise
Skilled in risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting
Familiarity with Agile project governance and backlog management
Lead discovery workshops to identify in-scope controls, services, and stakeholders
Primary Languages – Python, Java, Bash
Tooling, Services & Libraries – Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Splunk, OWASP, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, Fortify, Twistlock, Aqua Security
Python AWS security services (Control Tower, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Audit Manager) OPA, CloudFormation-guard
Knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS
Proficiency in policy-as-code frameworks (OPA)
Experience designing compliance-as-code strategies and custom controls (SCPs, Config Rules)
Strong audit-readiness advisory and evidence-collection expertise
Skilled in risk management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting
Familiarity with Agile project governance and backlog management
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

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
Design and automate security and compliance solutions
Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust
Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud
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.
Assist with technical briefs that document solutions
Assist with reference architecture implementations
Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership:
Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts
Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies