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Amazon Senior Security Solutions Architect (Threat Detection & Incident Response), Security Specialist SAs in Seattle, Washington
Description
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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate and experienced professional to help our customers in moving their workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific threat detection and incident response requirements.
Do you have a unique combination of in-depth technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills? Are you skilled at helping customers to build cloud-native threat detection and incident response capabilities using highly scalable computing architectures? Do you like helping organizational leaders think through how to secure workloads in the Cloud?
The ideal candidate should be a technical security professional who has the ability to consult and build a wide range of threat detection and incident response capabilities, is willing to dive in to the details, can build scalable solutions, and is able to communicate at all levels within an organization. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, security, and technical challenges.
Key job responsibilities
Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to design and build threat detection and incident response capabilities
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.
Some travel required (up to 20%)
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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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.
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
4+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
BS degree in computer science, MIS, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Experience in a customer-facing, sales-aligned role such as consultant, solutions engineer or solutions architect.
An advanced degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or related discipline, and relevant industry certifications (CISSP, CISA/M, CCSP) or equivalent experience
Hands-on technical expertise in building scripts, tools, or methodologies that enhance customers’ threat detection and incident response capabilities
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.