Sr. Security Services SA, AWS Industries - Customer Acceleration Team - Security Specialists

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building a first-of-its-kind Security Services SA function dedicated to the largest enterprise customers. The role involves serving as a long-term security architect, engaging with CISOs, driving adoption of AWS Security Services, and shaping the security services roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the long-term security architect for a defined set of enterprise customers within one to two industry verticals guiding their adoption of AWS security services from initial discovery through launch readiness
• Operate as one half of a dedicated two-person team with a Security Specialist Seller - you own solution architecture, technical validation, and customer confidence; your seller owns opportunity origination and deal strategy
• Drive adoption of the AWS Security Services portfolio (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Detective, IAM Identity Center, Macie, Security Lake, Network Firewall, WAF, and more) across three motions: deepening adoption at existing accounts, enabling CISO-org relationships, and supporting competitive displacement
• Lead technical conversations with CISOs, VP-level security leaders, and engineering teams including architecture reviews, security assessments, and proof-of-concept guidance
• Help customers architect security for generative AI and agentic AI workloads
• Translate recurring customer friction, customer obsession, and market evolutions into structured product feedback that shapes the AWS security services roadmap
• Publish reusable assets (reference architectures, blogs, workshops, conference sessions) that scale impact beyond individual engagements
• Own at least one team-level initiative per year that raises the bar for the function as it scales

Requirements:

• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
• Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
• Knowledge of AWS services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals