Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Industries

Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an exceptional Principal Security Solutions Architect to join our AWS Industries Security Specialist SA team. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical security expertise, emerging AI security challenges, and strategic customer transformation. You will serve as a trusted security advisor to some of the largest and most complex global enterprise customers across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Automotive & Manufacturing, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, and Media & Entertainment industries, helping them accelerate innovation and unblock cloud adoption through strategic security and compliance solutions.

As a Principal Security SA, you will work backwards from customer success to transform security from a perceived barrier into a strong business enabler. You will lead transformational security initiatives that impact entire industries, establish thought leadership in emerging security domains, and influence AWS service roadmaps based on enterprise customer requirements.

• Lead strategic security, risk, and compliance conversations with C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, CEOs) at large multinational enterprises, helping them see security as a catalyst for faster innovation and competitive advantage.
• Build and own relationships with senior security decision-makers, managing complex stakeholder environments across technical, legal, compliance, and business teams to drive consensus and outcomes.
• Develop and apply deep expertise across six critical security domains:
  Identity & Access Management, Threat Detection & Incident Response, Data Protection & Privacy, Network & Infrastructure Security, Compliance & Governance, and Application & Workload Security – mastering both AWS native services and how leading third-party security solutions integrate to deliver comprehensive outcomes.
• Architect and deliver highly complex, 400+ level technical security solutions for the most demanding enterprise environments, solving problems where standard patterns simply aren't enough.
• Lead transformational, industry-scale security initiatives. These include ambitious, multi-month efforts that remove adoption barriers for entire customer segments, not just individual accounts.
• Bring deep expertise in AI and Agentic AI security, helping customers securely adopt generative AI and autonomous agent systems.
• Create thought leadership content, enable and scale through the broader field organization, and amplify customer feedback to directly influence AWS service roadmaps.

No two days look exactly the same, but here's a sense of what this role feels like in practice.

• Start your morning reviewing a complex security architecture proposal for a global automotive manufacturer trying to meet EU cybersecurity regulations while migrating to cloud – and by afternoon, you're on a call with a healthcare company's CISO walking through how AWS native controls, combined with their existing identity governance platform, can actually accelerate their compliance timeline rather than extend it.
• Mid‑week, you might be deep in research mode, working on a new framework for securing agentic AI systems that you're planning to publish and present at an upcoming industry conference.
• You'll regularly field complex technical questions from field architects who are stuck on a customer challenge where your guidance helps them move forward without needing to elevate the issue.
• You'll also spend time in conversations with AWS service teams, sharing customer feedback and pushing for roadmap changes that remove real adoption blockers and enable exciting new capabilities.
• Some weeks you're traveling to meet a customer in person; others you're writing, building, or presenting from your desk. The common thread: you’re always working backwards from what customers actually need to succeed and you’re always thinking about how to make that success repeatable at scale.

Our team brings together deep technical security expertise and real industry experience to drive transformation at scale – not just for individual customers but across entire industries. We are opinionated…