Sr. Prototyping Architect, AGS Security Engineering
About the role
This new team is the security engineering function for AWS Global Sales (AGS), helping the field engage customers securely and keeping the business secure. You'll work closely with AWS Account Teams and Prototyping Teams, AGS leaders, and partner teams across AWS security, tooling, and legal.
Responsibilities
Partner on the highest-risk and most ambiguous engagements as the accountable security owner, building the secure solution directly with autonomy and consulting the team's security engineers when hitting something the frameworks don't cover
Build security capabilities as the deliverable, such as automated detection-and-response pipelines, policy-as-code guardrails, or identity and access management migrations
Co-build on prototyping and customer engagements globally, bringing additional security expertise and continuously raising the security bar on how we engage
Feed what you learn building into our frameworks, governance, and training, and into the feature requests that shape how AWS service teams support secure building
Work with the team's security engineers to develop or integrate the secure design and builder patterns that get codified into the steering docs, skills, MCPs, agents, and tools the field builds with
Build and maintain the internal security tooling the team and field relies on with the team's security engineers, and help secure the critical open-source projects AGS owns and customers depend on
Enable the field to build securely, running build sessions and reusable demos that show how to build secure-by-default with AI-assisted tooling
Qualifications
8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience