AWS Cloud Security Architect – AI & Cloud Safeguards

System One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking an AWS Cloud Security Architect to lead security for enterprise applications and AWS cloud environments onsite in Plano, TX, and additional locations. The role emphasizes secure migrations, threat modeling, and the development of guardrails and reference architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, ensure compliance with NIST/FedRAMP/FIPS, and contribute to AI/GenAI security while guiding security controls and governance across cloud initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT with cybersecurity and cloud security experience.
• 5+ years cybersecurity architecture experience in roles such as Information Security Architect, Cloud Security Architect, or Infrastructure Security Architect.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS cloud security experience, including securing enterprise workloads and cloud migrations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security services, controls, IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, data protection, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience securing enterprise cloud and hybrid environments and performing security architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Provide security architecture guidance for enterprise applications, AWS cloud environments, hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity platforms, APIs, containers, data solutions, and AI enabled applications.
• Partner with application and engineering teams to securely migrate workloads from on premises environments to AWS and other approved cloud platforms.
• Define and maintain cloud security patterns, standards, guardrails, security requirements, reference architectures, and implementation guidance.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for cloud native, hybrid, API, container, third-party, and AI/GenAI solutions.
• Define appropriate security controls and recommend remediation or compensating controls when security gaps are identified.

Skills

AWS security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Security frameworks

Communication

AI/GenAI security

Security controls design

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems

Tools

SIEM

Firewalls

Endpoint security

Cloud security services

Job description

System One is seeking an AWS Cloud Security Architect to lead security for enterprise applications and AWS cloud environments onsite in Plano, TX, and additional locations. The role emphasizes secure migrations, threat modeling, and the development of guardrails and reference architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, ensure compliance with NIST/FedRAMP/FIPS, and contribute to AI/GenAI security while guiding security controls and governance across cloud initiatives.