Amazon Web Services (AWS) ยท 2 weeks ago
Principal Security Solutions Architect , AWS Financial Services
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$164K/yr - $284K/yr
10+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a specialized Security Solutions Architect to work with our largest Financial Services customers. In this vital role, you will help customers achieve their business goals on AWS by identifying and tackling major security, risk, and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions, and by building and maintaining executive-level relationships with policy approvers and owners.
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Responsibilities
Help overcome barriers to AWS adoption in Financial Services accounts by identifying and tackling major security, risk and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions
Participate in architecture discussions to work through risk, security, and compliance concerns
Work with customer stakeholders to identify controls, as well as educating auditors and examiners by helping them understand how to assess third-party supplier arrangements and conduct audits when AWS is in scope
Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CIO/CISO/CRO and policy approvers and owners
Develop high-quality technical content, such as white papers and reference architectures, that can be used by our customers to assist them in deploying secure and compliant cloud-based solutions
Assess security and controls knowledge across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams and develop plans to address gaps
Qualification
Required
10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
Experience developing technology security solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology security roadmaps that guide secure IT transformations toward cloud computing
Proven experience communicating security concepts to executive audiences
Preferred
Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management 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
Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
Experience in application security architecture, security code reviews, security testing, incident response, or security infrastructure
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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