GenAI Security Architect - Hybrid, Health Benefits, Growth

ITSector; Aveiro; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Health Insurance

Competitive rewards based on knowledge

Certification, technical and behaviora

Team Building and Happy Hours

Work-life balance initiatives

Job summary

ITSector is seeking an ambitious security professional to support and review AI/GenAI use cases from design to production, defining security requirements for platforms, APIs, and tool integrations. The role focuses on architecture reviews, threat modelling, and ensuring secure deployments with robust logging and auditability.

The candidate will validate guardrails for data usage, manage risks like prompt injection and data leakage, and contribute to governance and secure-by-design practices in a

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent is required.
• Background in cybersecurity, ideally application security, product security, cloud security, or security architecture.
• Experience with security reviews, architecture reviews, threat modelling, and defining technical controls.
• Familiarity with IAM, API security, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and control validation.
• Knowledge of data protection, privacy, data minimization, and secure handling of sensitive or regulated data.
• Written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese and English.
• Ability to challenge technical implementations and validate that controls are effectively applied.

Responsibilities

• Review AI/GenAI use cases from design through production.
• Define security requirements for AI platforms, APIs, agents, tool use, and integrations.
• Perform architecture reviews, threat modelling, and security reviews of AI solutions.
• Validate integrations and deployments against security, privacy, logging, and auditability requirements.
• Identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection/jailbreaks, data leakage, unsafe tool use, and excessive agent autonomy.
• Define guardrails for data usage, especially for sensitive or regulated data.
• Ensure secure logging, monitoring, audit trails, and evidence of control effectiveness.
• Contribute to AI security governance, standards and secure-by-design patterns.

Skills

Degree in Computer Engineering / E.E.

Cybersecurity background

GenAI security

Threat modelling

Security reviews / architecture

IAM & API security

Data protection & privacy

Security governance & controls

Critical thinking & challenge

Portuguese & English communication

Education

Degree in Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GenAI platforms (Bedrock / Azure OpenAI)

Job description

ITSector is seeking an ambitious security professional to support and review AI/GenAI use cases from design to production, defining security requirements for platforms, APIs, and tool integrations. The role focuses on architecture reviews, threat modelling, and ensuring secure deployments with robust logging and auditability.

The candidate will validate guardrails for data usage, manage risks like prompt injection and data leakage, and contribute to governance and secure-by-design practices in a