Sr. Security SA for Digital Sovereignty, Global Services Security - Product

The Global Services, Security (GSS) team, a part of Amazon Web Services, leverages the expertise and ingenuity of our builders to establish scalable security solutions for both internal and external customers that drive business outcomes. Our goal of securing the world’s workloads and building a brighter future for humanity requires us to focus on reliable delivery of bar raising security outcomes and investment in security mechanisms and automation on behalf of our customers.

Security is our highest priority at AWS. As an AWS customer, you benefit from an environment built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. As an Global Services, Security (GSS) team member, you will help secure that environment for our internal and external customers while working on cutting edge security products for a variety of platforms and technologies, all operating at massive scale.

This Sr. Security Architect for Digital Sovereignty role will advise and deliver strategic security and compliance outcomes across a wide range of strategic opportunities and challenging environments. They will be responsible for leading and evolving the security and compliance strategy and architecture for strategic national digital sovereignty opportunities in the public sector and highly regulated industries. They will drive change with customers, partners, regulators, and internal teams, and develop security strategies and architectures to win support for delivering creative/non-standard approaches and solutions.

This key position will have high visibility at the most senior levels of customer, partner and regulator organizations. The position will act as the security interface with AWS customers and service teams working closely with AWS Sales and Solutions Architect teams. The candidate will foster key relationships, interpret the impacts of industry and regulatory changes, and track and report on industry trends.


Key job responsibilities
* Lead the conversation on security, risk and compliance with strategic AWS customers and partners with sovereignty restrictions
* Manage disparate senior stakeholders within customer environments to deliver consensus and drive outcomes on the AWS platform
* Help customers understand how they can integrate AWS security controls into their own control frameworks and recommending approaches to implement their controls on AWS.
* Prioritize strategic customer outcomes that drive their business forward while complying with sovereignty requirements and increasing their overall security posture.
* Work with customers to resolve complex security concerns and problems and achieve sovereignty, security, resilience and compliance outcomes are on the AWS platform through deep dive discussions, strategic presentations/recommendations, and hands on demonstrations in the AWS environment
* Act as a thought leader. Develop and launch industry leading sovereignty related, customer-facing resources based on projected customer needs and current demand
* Assist the AWS compliance team in determining the strategic direction of the various AWS compliance programs based on customer interaction and demonstrative metrics.
* Directly impact the roadmaps for AWS products and services through voice-of-the-customer amplification and influence with product and service teams to ensure that sovereignty requirements are prioritized on feature roadmaps.

A day in the life
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