Technical Account Manager, National Security, National Security - ES US-ADC

Amazon • Herndon, VA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS? At AWS Enterprise Support we’re looking for a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to support our customers’ creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies, including Compute, Storage, Database, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, Security, Networking, Serverless and more. This is not a sales role, but rather an opportunity to be the strategic technical advisor and ‘voice of the customer’ to National Security customers. As a TAM, you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers’ adoption and use of AWS services, including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, SageMaker, ECS/EKS, GuardDuty, Systems Manager, CodePipeline, IoT, and many more. Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customer’s environment, and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support and risk management. You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep your customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed. The TAM is the centerpiece of value to our National Security customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation, come join us! This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 2+ years of technical engineering experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• US Citizen

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience
• Experience recognizing a challenge and working with a variety of teams and data sources to diagnose the problem and recommend solutions
• Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead
• Experience with development in a distributed systems environment
• Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
• Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and ability to properly apply them to existing or new customer architecture, implementations, and/or solutions

Responsibilities

• Help craft and execute strategies to drive customer adoption and use of AWS services.
• Provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices.
• Proactively keep customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy.
• Understand customer business/operational needs and technical challenges to help them achieve the greatest value from AWS.
• Represent AWS within a customer’s environment.
• Drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support and risk management.

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: Mid Level