Onsite Cloud Security Architect - AWS & AI Risk Lead

System One, Inc.; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Job summary

System One, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to lead security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications, with a focus on AI and agentic AI solutions.

You will evaluate applications, APIs, cloud platforms, SaaS solutions, and distributed systems to identify security risks and define effective controls. You will collaborate with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams to protect sensitive data, strengthen IAM, secure cloud

Qualifications

• Strong AWS expertise and the ability to lead multiple security initiatives across IaaS, SaaS, and internally developed applications.
• Extensive experience with security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of STRIDE, attack trees, abuse cases, data flow analysis, and trust boundary analysis.
• Hands on experience evaluating security risks in AI, machine learning, and agentic AI applications.
• Advanced AWS knowledge across IAM, networking, compute, storage, RDS, messaging, serverless, ECS/EKS, CI/CD, and AI/ML services.
• Strong understanding of application security, API security, IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, and data protection.
• Experience translating identified threats into practical security controls and remediation recommendations.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, pipeline security, container security, infrastructure security, SIEM, CSPM, and CWPP solutions.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as NIST, OWASP, CIS, FedRAMP, ISO, and SOX.
• Experience with resilient, highly available, API driven, stateless, and integrated cloud or SaaS environments.
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCSP, AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, or equivalent credentials.

Responsibilities

• Lead security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications, with a strong focus on AI and agentic AI solutions.
• Evaluate applications, APIs, cloud platforms, SaaS solutions, and distributed systems to identify security risks and define effective controls.
• Work with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams to protect sensitive data, strengthen identity and access controls, secure cloud environments, and support compliance with enterprise policies and industry standards.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Identity and access management

AI security / agentic AI

Stakeholder communication

Program leadership

Tools

AWS

IAM

CI/CD pipelines

ECS/EKS

CWPP

CSPM

Job description

System One, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to lead security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications, with a focus on AI and agentic AI solutions.

You will evaluate applications, APIs, cloud platforms, SaaS solutions, and distributed systems to identify security risks and define effective controls. You will collaborate with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams to protect sensitive data, strengthen IAM, secure cloud