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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS Security & Networking - North America - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $153,600.0 - $207,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Active Directory, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Computer Engineering, Multi-Factor Authentication, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, OpenID, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign-On, Software Engineering, Okta, Generative AI, Build Management, Information Technology, Data Analytics - **Published:** July 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=629c02df48d25efa ## About the Role Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate and experienced professional to assist customers in migrating workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will address customer identity and access management requirements across both workforce and customer identity, and help them secure their generative AI applications. Do you have a unique combination of in-depth technical knowledge, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills? Are you a skilled identity professional who enjoys helping customers securely manage access to workloads and applications using AWS Identity services like AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, AgentCore Identity, and AWS Organizations Do you have experience designing and implementing security for generative AI technologies? Do you like helping organizational leaders think through how to secure workloads in the Cloud? The ideal candidate should be a technical identity professional who has the ability to consult and build a wide range of workforce and customer identity capabilities, advise on securing generative AI applications, is willing to dive in to the details, can build scalable solutions, and is able to communicate at all levels within an organization. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, security, and technical challenges., * 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience * 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience * 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience, * Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients * Experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies * Master's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) * Hands-on technical expertise designing and implementing security for AI and agentic workloads. * Expertise in designing solutions with IAM platforms (i.e. Okta, Active Directory, Entra ID, AWS Cognito, etc) in enabling single sign-on services for applications. * Hands-on experience using identity standards (including SAML 2.0, OAuth 2, OIDC), and modern security principles (i.e. zero trust, multi-factor authentication, passwordless technologies) ## Description * Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to design and build both workforce and customer identity capabilities * Provide security expertise and support for customers implementing generative AI technologies, ensuring secure and compliant deployments. * Design and build solutions to automate security, risk, and compliance on AWS. * Develop high-quality technical artifacts, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers, partners, solution architects, and consultants build secure solutions. * Work with AWS customers to convey cloud computing security, risk, and compliance best practices. * Work with other teams within AWS to influence and drive adoption of security, risk, and compliance products. * Provide mentorship across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams regarding security to build skills in the field. * Represent AWS at trade events by delivering security presentations and workshops. * Some travel required (up to 20%). A day in the life The AGS Security Solutions Architecture team is the trusted security partner to some of AWS's largest and most security-conscious customers in North America. We hold the security relationship and security agenda continuously, helping customers design, operate, and advance their security programs on AWS across multi-year journeys, securing new workloads, navigating the use and integration of new services, and keeping pace with an evolving threat landscape. The work spans the boardroom and the keyboard in the same week: framing a Zero Trust or AI-security roadmap a CISO can defend to their board, leading a hands-on architecture review with their engineers, and publishing guidance the security community uses to strengthen their defenses. We lead with prescription over generic advice, stay a step ahead of fast-moving threats and technology, and trust every person to carry the most senior security conversations with the customers we support. 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