Security Solution Architect, Security SA, APJ

Do you have the passion for helping customers and partners design and create robust security architectures to address their enterprise risk management requirements using cloud computing? Do you enjoy helping customers become more secure across their workloads and assisting them meet compliance accreditation? Would you like to do this using the world’s most advanced cloud computing technologies? Are you one of those rare technologists with the communication, consulting, and leadership skills to help guide major projects to success? The AWS Solutions Architecture team is hiring!

Come join the team as a Security Solutions Architect within Amazon Web Services (AWS) APJ team. In this role, you will deliver architecture guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects and conduct customer workshops. You will also drive collaboration with customers and partners to address security as well as compliance challenges.

Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects, working cross-organizationally to facilitate widespread use and adoption of the AWS platform, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS security technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are securely constructed using the AWS platform. The ideal candidate will possess customer facing skills that will allow them to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technology challenges.

The ideal candidate will look like this…

Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. As the right candidate, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge.

Enjoy working with customers of all shapes and sizes. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud computing systems for a diverse and challenging set of customers.

Have a strong understanding of large scale cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a security systems engineer or security architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills and developing new ones, so that you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions around securing systems and applications in the cloud. You regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises along with technical deep dive drive technical discussions to create world class security solutions for AWS.

AWS Global Sales (AGS) 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.

Key job responsibilities

Candidates should have experience in most of the following areas:

Security Compliance experience - must have strong experience and understanding of customer security/compliance requirements.

Speaking and presentation skills - Presentations, white boarding, large and small group speaking.

Technical - broad and deep knowledge of fundamental security principles and technologies, Security services development/deployment experience, and IT systems and network engineering experience.

Operational Security - should have experience in operationalizing both infrastructure and application security controls

Economic and business - RFP/Acquisition support; market analysis; cost benefit analysis, etc.

Experience in engaging enterprise class environment and complex architecture designs.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Experience working with end user or developer communities

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