Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Security, AWS

Full Job Description

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft secure, scalable, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems.

The Senior GTM Specialist SA, APJC, Security is a customer-facing technical role that combines deep security expertise with go-to-market execution. You will drive security-focused programs at scale across Australia, New Zealand, and the broader Asia-Pacific, Japan & China region — partnering with field sales teams, account solutions architects, and service teams to accelerate adoption of AWS security services and help customers build secure-by-design architectures.

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.

Would you like to make history in the world of cloud computing? We are seeking an experienced Security Specialist SA to lead technical go-to-market programs, drive customer engagements across the security portfolio, and act as a trusted advisor to CISOs and security leaders across APJ.

• Lead and scale the Security Health Improvement Program across APJC — driving security posture assessments, Trusted Advisor finding remediation, and service activation across enterprise customers.
• Deliver expert-level technical engagements including architecture advisory (Network Firewall, Security Lake, GuardDuty, Security Agent), Well-Architected Security Reviews, and proof-of-concept support.
• Own and deliver WWSO security enablement programs (Activation Days, START sessions etc.) across APJ — including direct speaking, instructor coordination, and program administration.
• Act as a thought leader through public speaking (AWS Summits, re:Invent, CISO roundtables, industry forums), blog authorship, and reference architecture development.
• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to AWS service teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
• Develop field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS security services into customer architectures.
• Partner with Business Development and GTM specialists to qualify pipeline, support conversion of security-adjacent opportunities, and identify new workloads.

Key job responsibilities

• Apply your advanced technical expertise and experience in Security architecture and philosophy to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges.
• Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
• Act as a thought leader, sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc.
• Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.

A day in the life Meet with customers and their account managers and solution architects for the largest and most strategic customer accounts to discuss opportunities to transform their workloads with AWS. Discuss the same opportunities with supporting AWS service specialist teams, cloud economics and partner teams to fine tune architectures, solutions and migration strategies. Share updates on customer trends with the team and key stakeholders before celebrating with the extended team in a collaborative and hybrid working environment.

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Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Experience securing cloud software services and understanding design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Experience in a client facing consultative role working with large, complex enterprise customers

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Knowledge of cloud architecture
• Experience in communicating with executives to describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or 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)
• Experience relying on analytics and data to cultivate deep customer empathy, shape product decisions and track effectiveness of change

Acknowledgement of country: In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience Experience securing cloud software services and understanding design for scalability, performance and reliability Experience in a client facing consultative role working with large, complex enterprise customers