Cloud Infrastructure Architect, CSA-Compliance Automation, Global Services Security

- Bachelor Degree or 5+ years of professional or military experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a technical specialist
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
- Direct hands-on experience deploying Landing Zone, Control Tower, Network and Web Application Firewall, Identity Management, DNS, log aggregation and monitoring solutions
- Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) CloudFormation (OR) Terraform (OR) Powershell (OR) Bash)
- Hands-on experience implementing network segmentation, IAM and KMS via IaC.
- Experience in Landing Zone deployment, Control Tower, AFT/CfCT, Security Lake, OpenSearch, Quicksight, and integrations of AWS-native and 3rd-party security tools
- Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments with focus on AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS security best practices
- Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA with REGO, cfn-guard)
- AWS Certification(s) such as Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro, SysOps Admin, Developer Associate.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $204,300/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.
Amazon Web Services is looking for highly technical cloud infrastructure architects to join the Compliance Automation team in AWS Global Services Security (GSS) to collaborate with our customers and partners on key customer engagements. GSS is responsible for delivering product-led, people-powered services that help our customers operate their business securely on AWS, and we are accelerating our adoption of AI/ML.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute at the intersection of cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve complex customer challenges and develop cloud-based solutions at scale. You will guide customers through transforming their business with the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that deliver end-to-end applications and infrastructure solutions. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple lines of business and learn from (and contribute to) a variety of security use cases. This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed. If you have technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of web applications, enterprise applications, HPC, batch processing and big data, archiving and disaster recovery in financial, health care, education and government industries, have a passion for security, and enjoy collaborating with our customers and partners on key engagements, please join us.

Key job responsibilities
- Architect and develop solutions working backwards from the customer, lead implementation projects with focus on security, deliver proof-of-concept project, and topical workshops
- Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
- Solve specific security and business problems through automation, utilizing code, and integrating AWS-native and 3rd-party tools via API.
- Align on requirements, and communicate results and recommendations both verbally and in writing. Educate our business partners about our solutions and potential opportunities.
- Work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists, and Service Engineering teams to drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
- Create white papers, write blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers.

A day in the life
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About the team
Compliance Automation team delivers innovative security solutions in code reducing complexity for compliance operations through automation. Utilizing broad knowledge across technology domains like security, infrastructure, data/analytics, Generative AI and AI/ML, we proactively identify areas to enhance security capabilities, and drive continuous improvements, prototyping and developing products and capabilities in-tune with industry trends and AWS best practices.
We help our customers streamline and simplify compliance operations through automated solutions that launch, monitor, and visualize security controls and collect evidence of compliance, enabling efficient AWS compliance operations.

About the team
Compliance Automation team delivers innovative security solutions in code reducing complexity for compliance operations through automation. Utilizing broad knowledge across technology domains like security, infrastructure, data/analytics, Generative AI and AI/ML, we proactively identify areas to enhance security capabilities, and drive continuous improvements, prototyping and developing products and capabilities in-tune with industry trends and AWS best practices.
We help our customers streamline and simplify compliance operations through automated solutions that launch, monitor, and visualize security controls and collect evidence of compliance, enabling efficient AWS compliance operations.