Senior AI Security Architect for Generative AI & Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Solutions Architect to define the long‑term technical direction for AI security architectural guidance across AI workloads on AWS.

You will lead security patterns, governance, and best practices spanning identity, data protection, and incident response while influencing service roadmaps and engaging with strategic customers. You will mentor senior architects, publish thought leadership, and drive scalable content delivery for AI security

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

• Set Strategic Technical Direction for AI Security: Define and own the long‑term vision and roadmap for AI/ML security architectural guidance aligned to the AWS Well‑Architected Guidance pillars, with deep focus on the Security pillar — including identity, access control, data protection, data residency and sovereignty, threat detection, and incident response for AI workloads.
• AI Security & Generative AI Thought Leadership: Serve as the organization’s principal technical authority on securing AI architectures — covering model security, data pipeline protection, prompt injection mitigation, model poisoning prevention, inference endpoint hardening, and secure agentic workflows.
• Raise the Bar Across the Organization: Establish security standards, review mechanisms, and architectural guardrails that elevate the entire guidance portfolio.
• Influence Service Roadmaps: Partner with Stakeholders and Engineers across AWS service teams to represent the customer voice on AI security, validate architectural recommendations, and influence product direction based on security patterns observed in production AI workloads.
• Executive Customer Engagement: Engage directly with strategic enterprise customers to validate security guidance through real‑world implementations, identify emerging AI security challenges, and translate insights into scalable best practices.
• Drive Innovation in Content Delivery: Own the strategy for automation tooling and pipelines that accelerate the creation, review, and publication of AI security guidance at scale.
• External Thought Leadership: Publish whitepapers, blog posts, and reference architectures; present at AWS events to establish AWS as a leading authority on securing Well‑Architected AI workloads.
• Mentorship & Organizational Impact: Mentor senior architects on AI security best practices, drive hiring bar‑raising, and build a community of practice that scales AI security expertise.

Tools

SAP

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Solutions Architect to define the long‑term technical direction for AI security architectural guidance across AI workloads on AWS.

You will lead security patterns, governance, and best practices spanning identity, data protection, and incident response while influencing service roadmaps and engaging with strategic customers. You will mentor senior architects, publish thought leadership, and drive scalable content delivery for AI security