Sr. Solutions Architect, Secure Research

Are you a security expert, ready to take on the hardest challenges in Academic Research and Academic Medical Centers? Our customers are public and private institutions, they are moving to the cloud, and their decisions impact the lives researchers, patients, administrators, and healthcare professionals. If you have a talent for thinking big, starting small, and bringing transformational thought to your customers, we would love to talk to you.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated, security-focused Solutions Architect to help accelerate our growing business as part of the World Wide Public Sector practice. As a Vertical Solutions Architect within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g. AWS EC2, AWS S3, Amazon Connect, and Amazon Q) directly with customers and our ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; defining implementation architectures, responding to RFPs, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

As a Solutions Architect on our team, you will provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership while working with a world business development team. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solution architect community that pertain to security and designing secure cloud environments that meet the most stringent compliance mandates. You will gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

In this position, you will help customers understand how to meet their security requirements on AWS by designing solutions and PoCs that become reference architectures, and by establishing best practices. You will establish yourself as a security subject matter expert, and will cultivate a community of Solutions Architects to drive thought leadership across the World Wide Public Sector business.

Please apply if you are passionate about the following:

- Helping our customers to design and create cloud computing architectures

- Our company credo: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history." It's critical to love what you do and take pride in your value proposition to our customers.

- Deep-dive technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends.

With experience in the following key areas:

- Technical presentation experience - White board, small and large group presentations

- Technical - infrastructure automation, security and compliance frameworks

- Operational - Web site/services operations, management, and security

- Ability to travel 30%

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS

- Experience with infrastructure as code (ex. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation), configuration of AWS Organizations (OU management, service control policies) and AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

- Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers

- Experience in a prior role as a CISO, and deep understanding of compliance and legislation pertaining to HIPAA, FEDRAMP, CMMC, GDPR, and FERPA

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/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.

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