Are you looking to elevate your cyber career? Your technical skills? Your opportunity for growth? Deloitte's Government and Public Services Cyber Practice (GPS Cyber Practice) is the place for you! Our GPS Cyber Practice helps organizations create a cyber minded culture and become stronger, faster, and more innovative. You will become part of a team that advises, implements, and manages solutions across five verticals: Strategy, Defense and Response; Identity; Infrastructure; Data; and Application Security. Our dynamic team offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge cyber security tools and grow both vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate. Join our cyber team and elevate your career.

　　Work you'll do

　　Description

　　As an AWS Security Architect/Lead, you play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing security controls to secure cloud infrastructure solutions. You are responsible for ensuring the scalability, security, and reliability of cloud-based systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and efficiency. You will lead a team of AWS Security Engineers working with different AWS Security services, conducting a cloud security configuration review and assessment of client's AWS environment and implementing required controls to secure the workloads and cloud environment hosted.

　　Responsibilities:

　　• Responsible for architecting, deploying, configuring, and maintaining security baselines within the AWS cloud environment

　　• Provides oversight over the implementation of approved security architecture/policies/procedures. Initiate and conduct project security reviews to identify cloud infrastructure security risks

　　• Reviews and oversee the implementation of approved recommendations on cloud security design and implementation

　　• He/she should be knowledgeable about potential vulnerabilities of virtual machines, serverless architecture and container deployment systems

　　• Establish and enforce security best practices, conduct regular audits, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations

　　• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to troubleshoot issues, provide technical guidance, and support continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

　　• Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architecture, processes, and procedures. Generate reports on system performance and suggest improvements

　　• Implement monitoring tools and practices to ensure system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. Optimize resources based on usage patterns and demand using tools like Splunk, CloudWatch, Athena

　　The team

　　Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of more than 15,000 professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise

　　At Deloitte, we believe cyber is about starting things-not stopping them-and enabling the freedom to create a more secure future. Cyber Infrastructure is focused on rethinking how security is integrated across modernized infrastructure as cyber threats become more complex. If you're seeking a career implementing, architecting, and-in select cases-handling next generation controls to manage security risks and exposure, then the Cyber Infrastructure team at Deloitte is for you.

　　This role is located in Sacramento, CA.

　　Qualifications

　　Required:

　　The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in the following:

　　Developing and updating cloud templates, standards, and security best practices

　　Cloud platforms and their services (compute, storage, networking, databases) with AWS

　　Security best practices in cloud environments and familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, HIPAA) AWS Security services

　　Conducting a cloud security configuration review and assessment of client's AWS environment and implementing required controls to secure the workloads and cloud environment hosted.

　　Standardizing AWS Security best practices, processes, and procedures

　　Providing strategic and technical leadership for teams establishing cloud infrastructure design, migrating data centers to cloud, developing infrastructure as code, or deploying cloud solutions

　　Designing, and integrating marketplace leading vulnerability management, threat management, monitoring, and data protection processes and platform tools

　　Building and operating automated security operations

　　Designing and advising against security requirements to support cloud migration efforts

　　Containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

　　Serverless computing and microservices architecture

　　DevOps methodologies and tools

　　Networking concepts and protocols

　　Bachelor's degree

　　Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

　　Preferred:

　　AWS Certified Solutions Architect

　　AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certification

　　Strong knowledge of industry trends in security technology

　　Strong communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders at various levels of the organization

　　The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $110,000 to $184,000.

　　You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

　　All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.