GenAI Security Architect: Threat Modeling & Cloud Controls

ITSector; Bragança; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health insurance

Training & certifications

Team events & happy hours

Work-life balance initiatives

Global projects

Partner benefits

Job summary

ITSector is seeking ambitious cybersecurity professionals to oversee GenAI/AI security across design-to-production stages. You will define security requirements for AI platforms, perform architecture reviews, and ensure logging, privacy, and auditability in deployments.

Ideal candidates bring experience in IAM, API security, threat modelling, and a solid grasp of OWASP Top 10 for AI applications, with strong Portuguese and English communication skills.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar 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.
• Experience 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.
• Ability to challenge technical implementations and validate that controls are effectively applied.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure environments in the context of AI workload security.
• Exposure to GenAI platforms like AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI/Azure AI Foundry.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications/Agentic AI and related security concepts.
• Exposure to DevSecOps and/or MLOps as a collaboration context.
• Written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese and English.
• Ability to work effectively and manage deadlines; sense of responsibility and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support and 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, and unsafe tool use.
• 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

Cybersecurity

GenAI security

Threat modelling

IAM

API security

Logging & monitoring

Data protection

DevSecOps

MLOps

OWASP Top 10

A2A architectures

Communication skills

Deadline management

Education

Degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or similar

Tools

AWS

Azure

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI/Azure AI Foundry

Security reviews tooling

Job description

ITSector is seeking ambitious cybersecurity professionals to oversee GenAI/AI security across design-to-production stages. You will define security requirements for AI platforms, perform architecture reviews, and ensure logging, privacy, and auditability in deployments.

Ideal candidates bring experience in IAM, API security, threat modelling, and a solid grasp of OWASP Top 10 for AI applications, with strong Portuguese and English communication skills.