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Associate Consultant - AWS Security/WAFR
Onsite Chennai, India Posted 2 days ago
Job details
We are looking for an experienced AWS Security & Cloud Defense Specialist to strengthen the security posture of our customers’ cloud environments. You will lead Well-Architected Reviews (WAFR), conduct deep-dive security assessments, and support managed SOC operations to ensure workloads are secure, resilient, and aligned with AWS best practices.
This is a hands-on specialist role for someone who excels in both preventive cloud security and real-time threat detection, investigation, and response.
What You’ll Do
- AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews
- Conduct pillar-wise WAFR assessments across Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost, and Operational Excellence.
- Identify risks, misconfigurations, and resilience gaps.
- Present risk-ranked improvements to technical and business stakeholders.
- Cloud Security Assessments
- Review AWS IAM architecture, networking security, WAF, SG/NACLs, logging, monitoring, and compliance alignment.
- Map environments against CIS benchmarks and AWS best practices.
- Recommend hardening strategies and remediation plans.
- Cloud Threat Defense & SOC
- Monitor AWS logs and telemetry to investigate alerts and anomalies.
- Perform incident triage and support containment activities.
- Tune detection rules, reduce false positives, and enhance threat detection logic.
- Security Control & Hardening
- Evaluate and strengthen GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config, KMS, and Identity controls.
- Identify attack paths and exposure risks across multi-account AWS environments.
- Reporting & Stakeholder Communication
- Prepare assessment reports, SOC summaries, and risk insights.
- Communicate technical findings in clear, business-impact language.
