Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an exceptional Principal Security Solutions Architect to join our AWS Industries Security Specialist SA team. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical security expertise emerging AI security challenges and strategic customer transformation. You will serve as a trusted security advisor to some of the largest and most complex global enterprise customers at AWS across Healthcare & Life Sciences Automotive & Manufacturing Energy Telecommunications Retail and Media & Entertainment industries helping them accelerate innovation and unblock cloud adoption through strategic security and compliance solutions.
As a Principal Security SA you will work backwards from customer success to transform security from a perceived barrier into a strong business enabler. You will lead transformational security initiatives that impact entire industries establish thought leadership in emerging security domains and influence AWS service roadmaps based on enterprise customer requirements. Your work will demonstrably accelerate time-to-market increase customer trust and enable competitive advantages through security excellence.

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Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers whether that is how we build products and solutions how we sell how we deliver or how we partner.


Key job responsibilities
Strategic Customer Engagement & Security as a Business Enabler:

- Lead strategic security risk and compliance conversations with C-level executives (CISOs CIOs CTOs CEOs) at large multinational enterprises helping them see security as a catalyst for faster innovation and competitive advantage
- Build and own relationships with senior security decision-makers managing complex stakeholder environments across technical legal compliance and business teams to drive consensus and outcomes
- Develop and apply deep expertise across six critical security domains: Identity & Access Management Threat Detection & Incident Response Data Protection & Privacy Network & Infrastructure Security Compliance & Governance and Application & Workload Security - mastering both AWS native services and how leading third-party security solutions integrate to deliver comprehensive outcomes
- Architect and deliver highly complex 400 level technical security solutions for the most demanding enterprise environments solving problems where standard patterns simply arent enough
- Lead transformational industry-scale security initiatives. These include ambitious multi-month efforts that remove adoption barriers for entire customer segments not just individual accounts
- Bring deep expertise in AI and Agentic AI security helping customers securely adopt generative AI and autonomous agent systems
- Create thought leadership content enable and scale through the broader field organization and amplify customer feedback to directly influence AWS service roadmaps


A day in the life
No two days look exactly the same but heres a sense of what this role feels like in practice.

You might start your morning reviewing a complex security architecture proposal for a global automotive manufacturer trying to meet EU cybersecurity regulations while migrating to cloud - and by afternoon youre on a call with a healthcare companys CISO walking through how AWS native controls combined with their existing identity governance platform can actually accelerate their compliance timeline rather than extend it.

Mid-week you might be deep in research mode working on a new framework for securing agentic AI systems that youre planning to publish and present at an upcoming industry conference. Youre not just solving one customers problem; youre building something that millions of customers across all industries can use.

Youll regularly field complex technical questions from field architects who are stuck on a customer challenge where your guidance helps them move forward without needing to escalate. Youll also spend time in conversations with AWS service teams sharing what youre hearing from customers and pushing for roadmap changes that would remove real adoption blockers and enable exciting new capabilities.

Some weeks youre traveling to meet a customer in person. Others youre writing building or presenting from your desk. The common thread: youre always working backwards from what customers actually need to succeed and youre always thinking about how to make that success repeatable at scale.

About the team
Our team brings together deep technical security expertise and real industry experience to drive transformation at scale - not just for individual customers but across entire industries. Were opinionated advisors who prescribe solutions embrace ambiguity and challenge the status quo. We invest in long-term relationships at every level of our customers organizations prioritizing trust over transactions. We actively shape AWS service evolution based on what we see at the frontier of enterprise security. And we build community by scaling ourselves and elevating skills across the organization so that every customer interaction moves the industry forward. The team serves global customers and is comprised of builders across Europe and North America.

- 12 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level including training workshops publications

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
- Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- CISSP-ISSAP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) or CISSP-ISSEP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at MA Boston - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 182800.00 - 247300.00 USD annually