Description
AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
Amazon Web Services is looking for highly technical cloud infrastructure architects to join the Security Assurance Services team in AWS Global Services Security (GSS) to collaborate with our customers and partners on key customer engagements. GSS is responsible for delivering product-led, people-powered services that help our customers operate their business securely on AWS, and we are accelerating our adoption of AI/ML.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute at the intersection of cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve complex customer challenges and develop cloud-based solutions at scale. You will guide customers through transforming their business with the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple lines of business and learn from (and contribute to) a variety of security use cases. This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed. If you have technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery in financial, health care, education and government industries, have a passion for security, and enjoy collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements, please join us.
Key job responsibilities
Assist with architecting and developing solutions working backwards from the customer, deliver implementation projects with focus on security, deliver proof-of-concept project, and topical workshops
Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
Solve specific security and business problems through automation, utilizing code, and integrating AWS-native and 3rd-party tools via API.
Align on requirements, and communicate results and recommendations both verbally and in writing. Educate our business partners about our solutions and potential opportunities.
Work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists, and Service Engineering teams to drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
Create white papers, write blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers.
A day in the life
Security Assurance Services delivers innovative security solutions in code reducing complexity for compliance operations through automation. Utilizing broad knowledge across technology domains like security, infrastructure, data/analytics, Generative AI and AI/ML, we proactively identify areas to enhance security capabilities, and drive continuous improvements, prototyping and developing products and capabilities in-tune with industry trends and AWS best practices.
We help our customers streamline and simplify compliance operations through automated solutions that launch, monitor, and visualize security controls and collect evidence of compliance, enabling efficient AWS compliance operations.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications
2+ years of cloud architecture and designing and implementing cloud solutions experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
AWS Solutions Architect Certification
Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3
Experience implementing a cloud-based technology solution in a school project or while working for a company
Experience with infrastructure as code, ops automation, and configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
Experience with software development life cycle (sdlc) and agile/iterative methodologies
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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 $88,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $192,600/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.
