Role: AWS Security Architect / Security Engineer — Agentic AI & AWS Security Services
Location: Remote
Role purpose - Own security architecture and engineering assurance across AWS delivery workstreams, including agentic-AI use cases. The successful candidate must be able to challenge designs, translate threats and regulatory obligations into implementable guardrails, and verify that remediation is complete before handoff.
What the person will deliver
- Lead design security reviews, review SAST and DAST findings, and verify remediation across three to five concurrent workstreams.
- Create and maintain STRIDE-based threat models, updating threats, controls and residual risks when architecture changes.
- Review agent architectures for prompt-injection, data-exfiltration, excessive agency and privilege risks; define model guardrails, data boundaries, PII redaction and least-privilege roles.
- Validate multi-account guardrails, IAM, encryption, network controls, logging and monitoring across AWS services and delivery pipelines.
- Map controls and evidence to SOX, GDPR and other engagement-specific regulatory requirements.
- Review technical deliverables before handoff and brief new team members on security expectations and data-handling processes.
What the person will deliver
- Demonstrated threat-modeling, architecture-review and code-review experience
- Hands-on TypeScript or Python and practical knowledge of serverless, API, data and identity services on AWS
- IaC using Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation and CI/CD security experience, including GitLab pipelines
- Practical understanding of AI-agent guardrails, prompt-injection, data leakage and least-privilege design
- Working knowledge of GuardDuty, Macie and Security Hub
- Ability to explain technical risk and control evidence to engineering and regulatory stakeholders
- Certification requirement: Must hold the AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification or be ready to obtain it within four weeks of hire.