AWS Cloud Security Consultant (Security Operations & Infrastructure)

Are you looking to take the next step in your career as an AWS Cloud Security Consultant? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!

Opportunity:

Virtual Service Operations is searching for an AWS Cloud Security Consultant to join our team. In this role, you'll protect customer workloads and catch threats before they do damage. The work spans detection engineering, incident response, network and host hardening, and edge protection across AWS environments.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and tune GuardDuty, Security Hub, Detective, Inspector, and CloudTrail across multi-account environments
• Engineer detections and feed AWS telemetry into the customer's SIEM (Splunk, Elastic/OpenSearch, or Sentinel)
• Build automated response playbooks with EventBridge, Lambda, and Step Functions, and lead incident response and forensics in AWS
• Design trust boundaries and network security: VPC segmentation, security groups, NACLs, AWS Network Firewall, Transit Gateway inspection, and PrivateLink
• Harden compute and OS baselines to DISA STIGs and CIS benchmarks, and drive patching and vulnerability remediation with Systems Manager and Inspector
• Implement edge protection with AWS WAF, Shield Advanced, CloudFront, and Route 53, including DDoS response planning
• Write runbooks and escalation paths that support 24/7 operations and handoff to the customer's SOC

Required Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CISSP, CCSP, or an equivalent GPS-approved certification
• Proficient with AWS security services, especially GuardDuty, Security Hub, Detective, and Inspector
• Understanding of security frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS), including STIG or CIS hardening on Linux and Windows
• Hands-on with at least one enterprise SIEM
• AWS network security experience: VPC design, security groups, and AWS Network Firewall or a third-party NGFW
• DoD 8140-compliant baseline certification (e.g., Security+, CySA+)
• Willing to complete annual AESP training

Preferred Qualifications:

• CySA+, GCIH, GCIA, or GCFA
• Prior SOC or CSSP experience in a DoD environment
• Palo Alto Networks VM-Series or Cloud NGFW experience
• Shield Advanced and WAF rule tuning at scale
• Python/Boto3 automation and infrastructure as code
• No security clearance is required to start; an active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance is preferred