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Job Details
Posted date: Mar 25, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $188,600
Range: $138,200 - $239,000
Description
AWS Security Specialist Organization is seeking a passionate and experienced security professional to help our customers build and enhance their security incident response capabilities in the cloud. You'll help customers design, implement, and optimize their threat detection and incident response programs while leveraging AWS's comprehensive security services portfolio.AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!
Key job responsibilities
* Lead strategic conversations with customers about their incident response requirements and guide them in building cloud-native security capabilities
* Design and implement automated incident response solutions using AWS security services
* Develop technical artifacts including playbooks, reference architectures, and automation tools to enable customers and partners
* Drive best practices for security incident handling and response across AWS customers
* Collaborate with AWS product teams to influence security service roadmaps based on customer needs
* Provide thought leadership in cloud security incident response through white papers, presentations, and workshops
* Mentor AWS sales and solutions architecture teams on security incident response capabilities
* Travel as required (up to 20%)
A day in the life
Drive strategic conversations with C-level executives and security leaders at an enterprise customer, discussing their cloud security strategy and incident response capabilities
Lead a cross-functional workshop to craft and deliver security best practices for a new customer migrating their critical workloads to AWS
Host a thought leadership webinar for the greater AWS security community, sharing insights on emerging threats and innovative response techniques in cloud environments
Collaborate with product teams to conceptualize a new feature that could revolutionize threat detection and incident response
Participate in a strategy session with internal teams to develop scalable solutions that will empower an entire industry vertical to improve their security posture
About the team
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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. We work backwards from our customer's most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job 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.
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.
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 and 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.
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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
Extended Qualifications
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Deep understanding of threat detection, incident response, and forensics methodologies
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
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