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Senior Security Consultant, AWSI-SDT-APJ, AWSI-SDT-APJ-Japan

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Senior Security Consultant, AWSI-SDT-APJ, AWSI-SDT-APJ-Japan

Job ID: 2795307 | Amazon Web Services Japan GK

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.

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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Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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