Cloud Security Architect for AI & Threat Detection

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate security professional to assist customers in migrating workloads to the cloud, focusing on threat detection and incident response for generative AI deployments.

You will design and implement security architectures, advise on secure AI workloads, and develop scalable, cloud-native security solutions with cross-team collaboration. The role requires strong communication and strategic thinking for business, security, and technical challenges.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience.

Responsibilities

• Independently contribute to teams that include Amazonians, partners, and customers to design and build both threat detection and incident response capabilities
• Provide security expertise and support for customers implementing generative AI technologies, ensuring secure and compliant deployments.
• Design and build solutions to automate security, risk, and compliance on AWS.
• Develop high-quality technical artifacts, such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers, partners, solution architects, and consultants build secure solutions.
• Work with AWS customers to convey cloud computing security, risk, and compliance best practices.
• Work with other teams within AWS to influence and drive adoption of security, risk, and compliance products.
• Provide mentorship across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams regarding security to build skills in the field.
• Represent AWS at trade events by delivering security presentations and workshops.
• Some travel required (up to 20%)

Skills

Cloud security

Threat detection

Incident response

Tools

Automation tools

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a passionate security professional to assist customers in migrating workloads to the cloud, focusing on threat detection and incident response for generative AI deployments.

You will design and implement security architectures, advise on secure AI workloads, and develop scalable, cloud-native security solutions with cross-team collaboration. The role requires strong communication and strategic thinking for business, security, and technical challenges.