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

About the role

The Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS Security & Networking - North America, assists customers in migrating workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will address customer threat detection and incident response requirements, and help them secure their generative AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to design and build both threat detection and incident response 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 our 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

Requirements

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 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
• Hands-on technical expertise designing and implementing security for AI and agentic workloads

Qualifications

• Passionate and experienced professional with a unique combination of in-depth technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills
• Skilled at helping customers to build cloud-native threat detection and incident response capabilities using highly scalable computing architectures
• Willing to dive in to the details and build scalable solutions
• Able to communicate at all levels within an organization
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, security, and technical challenges

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Some travel required (up to 20%)