Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries

Amazon • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an exceptional Principal Security Solutions Architect to join our AWS Industries Security Specialist SA team. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical security expertise, emerging AI security challenges, and strategic customer transformation. You will serve as a trusted security advisor to some of the largest and most complex global enterprise customers at AWS across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Automotive & Manufacturing, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, and Media & Entertainment industries, helping them accelerate innovation and unblock cloud adoption through strategic security and compliance solutions.
As a Principal Security SA, you will work backwards from customer success to transform security from a perceived barrier into a strong business enabler. You will lead transformational security initiatives that impact entire industries, establish thought leadership in emerging security domains, and influence AWS service roadmaps based on enterprise customer requirements. Your work will demonstrably accelerate time-to-market, increase customer trust, and enable competitive advantages through security excellence.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the 8 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?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Requirements

• 12+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• CISSP-ISSAP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) or CISSP-ISSEP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic security, risk, and compliance conversations with C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CEOs) at large multinational enterprises, helping them see security as a catalyst for faster innovation and competitive advantage
• Build and own relationships with senior security decision-makers, managing complex stakeholder environments across technical, legal, compliance, and business teams to drive consensus and outcomes
• Develop and apply deep expertise across six critical security domains: Identity & Access Management, Threat Detection & Incident Response, Data Protection & Privacy, Network & Infrastructure Security, Compliance & Governance, and Application & Workload Security - mastering both AWS native services and how leading third-party security solutions integrate to deliver comprehensive outcomes
• Architect and deliver highly complex, 400+ level technical security solutions for the most demanding enterprise environments, solving problems where standard patterns simply aren't enough
• Lead transformational, industry-scale security initiatives. These include ambitious, multi-month efforts that remove adoption barriers for entire customer segments, not just individual accounts
• Bring deep expertise in AI and Agentic AI security, helping customers securely adopt generative AI and autonomous agent systems
• Create thought leadership content, enable and scale through the broader field organization, and amplify customer feedback to directly influence AWS service roadmaps

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal