Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS Security & Networking - North America

About the role

AWS Global Sales (AGS) drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate and experienced professional to assist customers in migrating workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will address customer identity and access management requirements across both workforce and customer identity, and help them secure their generative AI applications. You will help customers securely manage access to workloads and applications using AWS Identity services like AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, AgentCore Identity, and AWS Organizations.

Responsibilities

• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to design and build both workforce and customer identity capabilities.
• Provide security expertise and support for customers implementing generative AI technologies, ensuring secure and compliant deployments.
• Design and build solutions to automate security, risk, and compliance on AWS.
• Develop high-quality technical artifacts, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help customers, partners, solution architects, and consultants build secure solutions.
• Work with AWS customers to convey cloud computing security, risk, and compliance best practices.
• Work with other teams within AWS to influence and drive adoption of security, risk, and compliance products.
• Provide mentorship across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams regarding security to build skills in the field.
• Represent AWS at trade events by delivering security presentations and workshops.
• Travel required (up to 20%).

A day in the life

The AGS Security Solutions Architecture team is the trusted security partner to some of AWS's largest and most security-conscious customers in North America. We hold the security relationship and security agenda continuously, helping customers design, operate, and advance their security programs on AWS across multi-year journeys, securing new workloads, navigating the use and integration of new services, and keeping pace with an evolving threat landscape. The work spans the boardroom and the keyboard in the same week: framing a Zero Trust or AI-security roadmap a CISO can defend to their board, leading a hands-on architecture review with their engineers, and publishing guidance the security community uses to strengthen their defenses. We lead with prescription over generic advice, stay a step ahead of fast-moving threats and technology, and trust every person to carry the most senior security conversations with the customers we support.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in specific technology domain areas (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• Experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies.
• Master's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
• Hands-on technical expertise designing and implementing security for AI and agentic workloads.
• Expertise in designing solutions with IAM platforms (i.e., Okta, Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS Cognito, etc.) in enabling single sign-on services for applications.
• Hands-on experience using identity standards (including SAML 2.0, OAuth 2, OIDC), and modern security principles (i.e., zero trust, multi-factor authentication, passwordless technologies).

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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

• Inclusive Team Culture: AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams.
• 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.

Pay

• USA, CA, Irvine: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, CA, San Diego: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, CA, San Francisco: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, CO, Denver: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, FL, Miami: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, GA, Atlanta: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, MA, Boston: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits.