WW Specialist Solutions Architect, Security

Increasingly, companies are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to move their core business applications to the cloud. AWS is looking for passionate security professionals to work with these customers to help guide their vision, address risks and implement their security, resilience and compliance strategies on the AWS platform. This role will provide thought leadership and operate with a high degree of autonomy and visibility as part of our worldwide specialist team.

This role will challenge, dive in to the details, and show how AWS can support their security, availability, and compliance strategies, security operations personas. This particular role will also directly interface with our AWS partners and service teams to help customers move their business applications to the AWS cloud.
This position synthesizes industry trends and will have visibility at senior levels of customer organizations, including frequent interaction with customer Security Director, Security Architect, SecOps, and AWS peers. The position, as part of the AWS worldwide specialist organization, will act as the security interface with AWS customers and service teams working closely with AWS Sales and Solutions Architect teams. The candidate will create and foster key relationships, be able to interpret the impacts of industry and regulatory changes, and track and report on industry trends.


About the team
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) works backwards from customers to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses, and pride themselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

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