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Security Consultant
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Security Consultant
Cloud Security Consultant
Company Description
One of Ireland’s most trusted technology partners, Version 1 has provided best-in-class transformation solutions to global brands for over 30 years. Our expertise helps customers navigate the rapidly changing technology landscape by delivering secure, scalable, and tailored AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle solutions—unlocking their innovation potential.
As an award-winning AWS Partner, Microsoft & Oracle partner, and lead technology consultancy, we foster long-term partnerships with leading global brands. Our 3,300+ employees drive a €350m/£300m revenue business, while our commitment to employee performance, wellbeing, and culture has earned us top global recognition, including:
- Great Place to Work in Ireland & the UK (10+ years in a row)
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK
We are a values-driven company. You’ll bring passion to our mission of customer success—and we’ll support and inspire you to flourish in return.
Job Description
As a Cloud Security Consultant, you will be the technical security expert driving customers throughout their AWS cloud transformation journey. Your expertise ensures security is measurable, visible, and governed, while making enterprise-class tools and processes actionable.
About the Role
You’ll act as a trusted advisor, leading security design workstreams, implementing compliance controls, and engaging with stakeholders to address risks. Leveraging your deep technical expertise and stakeholder collaboration skills, you’ll drive customer success tactically, operationally, and strategically, transforming security maturity through:
- Consultative leadership: Lead technical and security workstreams to design resilient environments and support deployments.
- Strategic initiatives: Partner with Architecture & DevOps teams to build and evolve security automation frameworks and project delivery.
- Knowledge sharing: Mentor team members, enabling AWS security best practices across engagements.
Your Responsibilities
- Technical leadership: Guide security implementation across tools and plans for infrastructure, development teams, and emerging risks.
- Close collaboration: Work with Enterprise Architecture and IT Operations to strengthen security posture in innovation-led and mainframe tech stacks.
- Strategic security delivery:
- Drive quantitative impacts by hardening customers’ environments.
- Mitigate risks through preventive controls (e.g., DLP, SIEM, monitoring).
- Apply security lead practices to transform company security outcomes.
- Support & scale:
- Manage pre-, mid-, and post-project solutions for compliance, technical debt, architecture, and workstream execution.
- Enable teams via the patterns, methodologies, and tools instilled in engagements.
- Continuous improvement:
- Engage with customers to maintain enterprise security features, automation, and governance.
- Build a techno-commercial strategy and influence key decision-makers to advocate for prioritisation of security.
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Qualifications
Basic Requirements
- 7–8+ years of hands-on experience in cloud architecture with a focus on AWS security solutions.
- 7–8+ years of security expertise, with practical experience in at least two of the following:
- Cloud Security (e.g., AWS security services)
- Application Security (e.g., threat modeling, secure coding, SDLC)
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Network Security (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection)
- Data Protection (e.g., encryption, data loss prevention)
- Incident Response (e.g., incident triage, forensics)
- Broad enterprise security tool experience (e.g., SIEM tools, WAF, Firewalls).
- Familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
Preferred
- Certified as an AWS Professional (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional).
- Hands-on experience with automation (e.g., Terraform, Python) and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience establishing Security as Code principles in projects.
- Proactive communication skills, both in technical discussions and pre-sales engagements.
Why Version 1?
Our Commitment to You
We focus on balancing purpose and progress—we believe investing in diversity, inclusion, and respect ensures innovation, creativity, and collaboration. At Version 1, you’ll join a purpose-led culture with ambitious, forward-thinking colleagues who help each other flourish.
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To past and future employees, we offer:
- Growth & development: Strength in Balance programme, mentorship, quarterly Pathways career development, and incentives for certifications.
- Educational & professional support: Curated Version 1 University which covers multiple certification opportunities.
- Financial support: Attractive pension contributions and Stronger Together profit share, alongside savings plans. A Private Healthcare Plan and group insurance (including life assurance) are provided from day one.
- Flexibility & balance: Tailored to your life. Student loans? Mortgage? No stress—we’re flexible to help you balance.
- Wellbeing:
- larger-than-average holidays (e.g., 30 days).
- Extended parental leave (maternity/paternity, adoption).
- Key life milestones (e.g., Marriage & Civil Partnership Leave).
- Professional support via Help & Wellbeing Programme and Mindfulness initiatives.
- Discounted gym, cycling, and mental & physical wellness services.
- Inclusivity & purpose: Engage in giveback programs, diverse employee resource groups (Quorum OutLoud—LGBTQ+, GrowTogether–Women’s community), and environmental impact projects.
Diversity & Inclusion
We value and invest in diversity, not just for what’s right but for what’s also brilliant. Our community includes different cultures, backgrounds, identities, and experiences because—at its core—Version 1’s strength is found in the many ways its people contribute.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your needs—whether it’s accessible facilities, assistance during the recruitment process, or understanding any other adjustment you require—then please get in touch with us.
We’re all ears. Email us at [contact email], and we’ll do everything possible to practicably and confidentially support you. #LI-SS1.
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