Amazon

Technical Account Manager, National Security, National Security - ES US-ADC

Amazon$131K — $177K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant certifications such as CASP+, CCSP, Cloud+, or CSSLP.
  • Minimum of 2 years of technical engineering experience.
  • Current US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph is mandatory.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of experience presenting to senior executives.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose challenges across diverse teams and data sources.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives in customer-facing environments.
  • Familiarity with AWS services and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a strategic technical advisor to National Security customers.
  • Craft and execute strategies for AWS service adoption and utilization.
  • Drive discussions on operational health, trade-offs, and risk management with senior leadership.
  • Provide technical guidance based on best practices for designing AWS solutions.
  • Ensure customers' AWS environments remain operationally healthy through advocacy and proactive management.
  • Develop close relationships to understand and address customers' operational needs and challenges.
  • Travel occasionally (10% or more) to support customer engagements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision) including prescription coverage.
  • 401(k) matching to support retirement savings.
  • Generous paid time off policy and parental leave.
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • Employee assistance program, mental health support, and various flexible spending accounts.
Full Job Description
Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help customers of all industries and sizes gain the best value and service from AWS?

At AWS Enterprise Support we're looking for a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to support our customers' creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies, including Compute, Storage, Database, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, Security, Networking, Serverless and more. This is not a sales role, but rather an opportunity to be the strategic technical advisor and 'voice of the customer' to National Security customers.

As a TAM, you will help craft and execute strategies to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services, including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, SageMaker, ECS/EKS, GuardDuty, Systems Manager, CodePipeline, IoT, and many more. Your technical acumen and customer-facing skills will enable you to effectively represent AWS within a customer's environment, and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs, support and risk management.

You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy. The close relationships developed with your customers will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges, and help them achieve the greatest value from AWS. This position will require the ability to travel 10% or more as needed.

The TAM is the centerpiece of value to our National Security customers. If you wish to be at the forefront of innovation, come join us!

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree, or CASP+ (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) or CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or Cloud+ or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)

- 2+ years of technical engineering experience

- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience

- Experience recognizing a challenge and working with a variety of teams and data sources to diagnose the problem and recommend solutions

- Experience in internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment as a technical lead

- Experience with development in a distributed systems environment

- Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment

- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings

- Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and ability to properly apply them to existing or new customer architecture, implementations, and/or solutions

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.

USA, VA, Herndon - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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