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 such as white papers, code samples, and blog posts, and evangelize and educate about AWS technology through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, and online videos.

This role is within the EMEA organization and you would be working predominantly with Enterprise customers.

• 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, VPCs, Key Management Service, Cloud
  
  HSM, 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, including contributions to external publications and public presentations at AWS Summits, re:
  
  Invent, and industry events.
• Community player – capture and share best‑practices and participate 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 advocating for the customers toward 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 the use of AWS Security Services and help use partner security solutions.
  • Thought leadership – speak at customer events, create reusable content, and write blogs.
  • Lead or support initiatives such as the adoption of AI in a secured manner and other security hardening initiatives, reviews, and more.
  • Enable other solutions architects.

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 Spec Req 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.

• 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 with in specific technology domain areas such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics.
• Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Experience…