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

Amazon • San Diego, CA

2d • $153,600 - $239,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking 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. This role requires a unique combination of in-depth technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills. The candidate will be a skilled identity professional who enjoys helping 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. Experience designing and implementing security for generative AI technologies is also important. The ideal candidate should be a technical identity professional who can consult and build a wide range of workforce and customer identity capabilities, advise on securing generative AI applications, dive into details, build scalable solutions, and communicate effectively at all levels within an organization. A demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, security, and technical challenges is also expected.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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)

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 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.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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