Senior AI Security Architect - IAM & Cloud Networking

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

Job summary

AWS is seeking an experienced security professional to drive workforce and customer identity solutions, secure generative AI deployments, and automate security across AWS. You will consult with customers, craft scalable identity architectures, and partner with sales and engineering teams to advance security in cloud workloads.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, hands-on implementations, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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 workforce and customer identity 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

Identity security

Cloud security

Zero trust

Executive comms

Security architectures

Education

Master's degree or above in CS/related field

Tools

Okta

Active Directory

Entra ID

AWS Cognito

SAML 2.0

OAuth 2 / OIDC

Job description

AWS is seeking an experienced security professional to drive workforce and customer identity solutions, secure generative AI deployments, and automate security across AWS. You will consult with customers, craft scalable identity architectures, and partner with sales and engineering teams to advance security in cloud workloads.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, hands-on implementations, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.