Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS Security & Networking - North America
Amazon · Denver, CO
$153,600–$239,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior security solutions architecture role focused on identity and access management for enterprise cloud customers, including both workforce and customer identity use cases. Day-to-day work involves designing and implementing IAM solutions using AWS identity services, advising on securing generative AI workloads, producing reference architectures and automation tools, and engaging directly with customer leadership and engineering teams. Suits a technically deep identity professional comfortable operating across executive and hands-on engineering contexts.
Senior level · 10+ years · Seattle, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25 people in the Seattle, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 8–40
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $165,338 (middle half $132,613–$190,632). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (9)
The role is posted across 10 US metro locations (Irvine CA, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, Denver CO, Miami FL, Atlanta GA, Boston MA, New York NY, Herndon VA, Seattle WA) with no single primary location; Seattle WA is used as the representative metro. Compensation ranges vary by location: most markets are $153,600–$207,800/yr, San Francisco is $176,600–$239,000/yr, and New York is $169,000–$228,600/yr.
The title carries no explicit seniority level; advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the Basic Qualifications gate on 10+ years of IT development/implementation/consulting experience, supporting a Senior classification.
The role straddles Security Architecture and Solutions Architecture (pre-sales/consulting). 15-1212 Information Security Analysts is the primary classification given the heavy identity, IAM, and security-architecture focus; 15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts is the runner-up given the customer-facing consulting and solutions-design framing.
AWS IAM, AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon Cognito, AWS Organizations, and AgentCore Identity are all named in the job description body as core services the candidate will work with; they are treated as hard gates given the explicit 'do you have experience with' framing and their centrality to the role's described responsibilities.
SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Okta/Active Directory/Entra ID, generative AI security, and Zero Trust all appear under the Preferred Qualifications section and are marked accordingly.
AgentCore Identity is a very new/emerging AWS service; it is captured under the AWS IAM Identity Center skill context rather than emitted as a separate skill, as it has no established canonical standalone name in the broader market.
A Master's degree is listed under Preferred Qualifications only, and the posting explicitly accepts equivalent STEM experience — degree requirement is None.
Up to 20% travel is required; the role is not fully remote.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AWS IAM Identity Center.
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