Cloud Security Architect—AI & Gov Cloud

Amentum; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amentum seeks a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design, deploy, and maintain security controls across Microsoft 365 Commercial and GCC High, Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments, including governance for AI services.

You will lead security reviews, build reusable security patterns, and collaborate with risk and compliance teams to enable secure generative AI adoption in government and commercial workloads.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Typically eight or more years of relevant experience in cloud, security, systems, or infrastructure engineering with a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Hands-on knowledge of Microsoft cloud or AWS security capabilities.
• Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting controls for cloud identity, network segmentation, data protection, logging, posture management, and workload protection.
• Experience applying cloud security principles to AI or ML services, copilots, or agentic systems.
• Experience using infrastructure as code, source control, scripting, and deployment automation.
• Experience with threat modeling, risk assessment, and translating requirements into technical controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across Microsoft 365 Commercial and GCC High, Azure, AWS, and hybrid services.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for AI-enabled platforms and higher-risk use cases.
• Develop reusable IaC components and automation for security policies and onboarding.
• Collaborate with risk, compliance, and platform owners to ensure practical remediation and secure deployments.

Skills

Cloud security

Security architecture

AI security

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity / IT / CS / engineering

Job description

Amentum seeks a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design, deploy, and maintain security controls across Microsoft 365 Commercial and GCC High, Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments, including governance for AI services.

You will lead security reviews, build reusable security patterns, and collaborate with risk and compliance teams to enable secure generative AI adoption in government and commercial workloads.