Sr. Partner Solutions Architect Security, AWS Specialists and Partners, Tech Center of Excellence

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Amazon Web Services is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is looking for a world class candidate for the role of Partner Solution Architect Security within our Amazon Specialists and Partner organization (ASP) to work with our strategic security Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

If you have experience in Information Security Networking Security Operations Application Security Threat Detection or Identity and are interested in helping customers embrace cloud technologies come and talk to us. You will work across the security industry and be in a position to help forge the next decade of innovation.

Specialist Partner Solutions Architects work with AWS partners product engineering alliance and GTM teams to help accelerate product development and our shared customers cloud journey. As a trusted technical advisor they engage in a wide range of activities providing technical advice to partners customers and the greater security community. They present AWS publicly within their domain and are the conduit between AWS service teams customers and partners.

This role will focus on working with a set of strategic Security partners and you will own the technical relationship. You will build and design joint solutions to help our shared customers in AWS meet their security objectives.

As the right candidate you will possess skills in information security cloud computing networking and application architecture. You are seen as a thought leader and will have customer facing skills that will be leveraged at all levels of a partner organization. You should be able to think strategically about business product and technical challenges. You are an influencer by nature and must be comfortable conversing at the CxO level and also be hands-on providing expertise at an engineering and product level.

25% travel is required

Key job responsibilities
- Partners trusted advisor: Collaborate with AWS Engineering service teams such AWS Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Amazon GuardDuty Amazon Security Lake Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Business partner: serve as a key member of the business development and partner management team in helping to ensure customer success on AWS
- Public engagement: provide thought leadership on Security solutions that benefit customers through the use of partner products that integrate with AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Blogs White-papers and public presentations at AWS Conferences and Industry Events
- Community player: capture and share best-practices participate and contribute as a member of the worldwide AWS technical community of Solution Architects Support and Business Development.
- Evangelizing a partners value proposition internally throughout AWS and externally with customers
- Establishing AWS as the partners preferred cloud computing platform for regulated workloads
- Working alongside business counterparts to develop extensive executive and senior management relationships within partner organizations
- Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful engagements with software partners worldwide.
- Serve as a key member of the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partners team helping to define and deliver the overall go-to-market strategy for the segment.


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- 7 years of Security experience.
- Hands on experience with AWS.
- Experience operating and deploying security tools such as Firewalls Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) CNAPP WAFs SIEMs and Identity Providers (IDP)
- Knowledge of modern cloud application architecture including Containers Auto-Scaling and Serverless concepts.

- 5 years of experience in a customer facing role
- 5 years of experience using AWS
- 5 years of experience on an internal security team
- Ability to code scripts in Python Javascript Go or Rust
- Experience and knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI technologies and their application to Security

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.