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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 at AWS 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. Your work will demonstrably accelerate time-to-market, increase customer trust, and enable competitive advantages through security excellence.
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Customer Engagement & Security as a Business Enabler:
- 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
A day in the life
No two days look exactly the same, but here's a sense of what this role feels like in practice.
You might 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're not just solving one customer's problem; you're building something that millions of customers across all industries can use.
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 escalate. You'll also spend time in conversations with AWS service teams, sharing what you're hearing from customers and pushing for roadmap changes that would 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.
About the team
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're opinionated advisors who prescribe solutions, embrace ambiguity, and challenge the status quo. We invest in long-term relationships at every level of our customers' organizations, prioritizing trust over transactions. We actively shape AWS service evolution based on what we see at the frontier of enterprise security. And we build community by scaling ourselves and elevating skills across the organization so that every customer interaction moves the industry forward. The team serves global customers, and is comprised of builders across Europe and North America.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ 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 developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation 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
- CISSP-ISSAP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) or CISSP-ISSEP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, MA, Boston - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
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 at AWS 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. Your work will demonstrably accelerate time-to-market, increase customer trust, and enable competitive advantages through security excellence.
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Customer Engagement & Security as a Business Enabler:
- 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
A day in the life
No two days look exactly the same, but here's a sense of what this role feels like in practice.
You might 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're not just solving one customer's problem; you're building something that millions of customers across all industries can use.
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 escalate. You'll also spend time in conversations with AWS service teams, sharing what you're hearing from customers and pushing for roadmap changes that would 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.
About the team
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're opinionated advisors who prescribe solutions, embrace ambiguity, and challenge the status quo. We invest in long-term relationships at every level of our customers' organizations, prioritizing trust over transactions. We actively shape AWS service evolution based on what we see at the frontier of enterprise security. And we build community by scaling ourselves and elevating skills across the organization so that every customer interaction moves the industry forward. The team serves global customers, and is comprised of builders across Europe and North America.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ 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 developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation 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
- CISSP-ISSAP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) or CISSP-ISSEP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional-Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, MA, Boston - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Security Specialist
Target government contractors first
Federal contractors in defense and intelligence consistently sponsor Security Specialists for H-1B visas. They have established legal teams, predictable sponsorship budgets, and ongoing demand for qualified candidates that makes navigating the process more straightforward than smaller employers.
Clarify clearance eligibility early
Security clearances are generally only available to U.S. citizens, so roles requiring clearances are typically off-limits. Ask employers upfront whether clearance is required or just preferred, many unclassified security positions remain open to sponsored candidates with the right technical background.
Certifications carry more weight than degrees alone
Certifications like CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+, and CEH significantly strengthen both your candidacy and your H-1B specialty occupation case. Employers and USCIS both treat these credentials as evidence of specialized expertise that goes beyond generalist qualifications.
Lead with your technical specialization
Employers are far more likely to sponsor candidates with a defined niche, cloud security, OT/ICS security, penetration testing, or SOC operations, than generalists. Specificity signals expertise and makes the specialty occupation argument for your H-1B petition considerably stronger.
Understand the H-1B lottery timing for your offer
H-1B petitions are cap-subject, meaning offers need to align with the April filing window and October start date. Discuss timeline constraints with employers early so neither side is caught off guard, and ask whether cap-exempt options apply to their organization.
Australian citizens should explore the E-3 visa
The E-3 is an often-overlooked alternative with no lottery and a significantly faster path to approval. Security Specialist roles that meet the specialty occupation standard qualify, making it a practical option for Australian nationals already in conversations with U.S. employers.
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Do Security Specialist roles qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, but it depends on the specific role. H-1B eligibility requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation, meaning it normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field like cybersecurity, computer science, or information systems. Roles focused on physical security or general guard supervision are less likely to qualify. Cybersecurity-oriented Security Specialist roles, especially those requiring technical certifications, have a much stronger specialty occupation argument.
Can I be sponsored for a Security Specialist role if I don't have a U.S. security clearance?
Many Security Specialist positions, particularly in the private sector and unclassified areas of government contracting, don't require clearances. Security clearances are generally restricted to U.S. citizens, so employers actively sponsoring international candidates typically structure roles around non-classified work. Always confirm with the employer whether clearance is required or merely listed as a preference before investing time in the application process.
What degree does USCIS expect for a sponsored Security Specialist position?
USCIS typically expects a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field, most commonly cybersecurity, information assurance, computer science, or information systems management. Degrees in unrelated fields can work if paired with substantial relevant experience and professional certifications like CISSP or CISM, though a non-matching degree will require a stronger evidentiary case in the H-1B petition. An immigration attorney can assess your specific combination.
How do I find Security Specialist jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Most job postings don't advertise sponsorship clearly, which makes filtering manually time-consuming and unreliable. Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface jobs that sponsor work visas, so you can browse Security Specialist openings without having to guess which employers are actually open to international candidates. Focusing on large defense contractors, tech companies, and financial institutions also improves your odds significantly.
Are Security Specialist roles harder to get sponsored for than other tech roles?
The specialty occupation determination can be trickier for Security Specialist roles than for pure software engineering positions, because the title covers a wide range of job functions. Roles with physical security responsibilities or generalist duties face more USCIS scrutiny. Cybersecurity-focused positions with technical depth, specialized tools, and degree requirements written into the job description are considerably easier to sponsor and less likely to receive a Request for Evidence.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Security Specialist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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