Associate Cloud Infrastructure Architect, AWS Security Assurance Services

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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
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- 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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field; or equivalent experience

- 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $88400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $192600/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.