Security Specialist SA, EMEA Security and Compliance Specialist SA

As a Security and Compliance Solutions Architect at AWS, you’ll build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor, ensuring they get the most out of the cloud at every stage of their journey. You’ll manage the overall technical security relationship between AWS and our customers, making recommendations on security, compliance, cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency to accelerate their challenging projects.

Internally, you will be the voice of the customer, sharing their needs and wants to inform the roadmap of AWS security services and features. In this role, your creativity will build effective design patterns addressing customer challenges, with the opportunity to define or invent cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos, or conferences).

This role is within the EMEA organization and you would be working predominantly with Enterprise customers. This is an opportunity to join Amazon’s technical teams, working with our engineers on the new services that power the cloud ecosystem, while developing your skills and furthering your career within what we believe to be one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies. This role will specifically focus on the security and compliance aspects of AWS Services and on helping our customers and partners build innovative and secure solutions and businesses.

As a Security Specialist Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers select the technologies that will support their business requirements. Part of the Specialist Solutions Architecture team, you will work closely with the other Specialist SAs on Big Data, Databases, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, or Modern Applications Development, as well as the Business Development teams, to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for their platforms. You will interact with other SAs, providing guidance on their customer engagements by developing white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers to fully leverage the AWS platform. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS solutions into customer architectures.

Candidates have a mix of communication and technical skills, and will have the ability to engage with customers at different levels in the organization, from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers, partners and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation. If you are someone who enjoys innovating, likes solving hard problems and working on new technology, we would love to have you on the team.

Key job responsibilities:

• Customers' trusted advisor: collaborate with AWS account, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), VPCs, Key Management System, CloudHSM, AWS Organizations, Artifact, Web Application Firewall.
• Business partner: serve as a key member of the business development and account management team in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Public engagement: provide thought leadership on Analytics solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Blogs, Whitepapers and Reference architectures, or public presentations at AWS Summits, AWS re:Invent, AWS User Groups or industry events.
• Community player: capture and share best-practices, participate, and contribute as a member of the worldwide AWS technical community of Solution Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and AWS Trainers.
• Service team point of contact: act as a conduit between the AWS Service teams and the customers, providing detailed guidance for the broader field organization and the customers, and acting as an advocate for the customers towards the central teams.

A day in the life:

• Engage with customers to answer security and compliance questions to unblock the adoption of AWS Security Services, foster new usage, encourage using AWS Security Services and help use AWS partner security solutions.
• Thought leadership: speak at customer events such as re:Invent or other security gatherings, create reusable content and write blogs.
• Lead or support initiatives such as the adoption of AI in a secured manner by our customers or other security hardening initiatives, reviews.
• Enable other solutions architects.

About the team:

The EMEA Security & Compliance Specialist Solutions Architects help customers achieve business objectives by implementing secure, compliant cloud solutions at scale across Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Key Activities:

• Customer Engagements (50-70% of time): Handle specialist requests via SpecReq tool (48-hour SLA), conduct 3-6 month Cloud Acceleration Journeys, and facilitate CISO Circles with 10-15 executives.
• Create Solutions: Develop workshops, code samples, blog posts, whitepapers, and solutions based on customer patterns.
• Enable the Field: Train SAs, TAMs, and partners through Maven classes, Re:quip programs, and internal conferences.
• Improve Platform: Provide customer feedback to service teams.

Basic qualifications:

• 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 communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.

Preferred qualification:

• Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs.
• Experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking.
• Experience working with end user or developer communities.

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