Senior Cloud Security Architect: AI & Threat Defense

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

Job summary

AWS is seeking a passionate and experienced security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud and secure generative AI deployments. The role focuses on threat detection, incident response, and scalable security architectures across projects with customers, partners, and internal teams.

The ideal candidate will consult, design, and build cloud-native security solutions, communicating security best practices to executives and engineers alike, while traveling up to 20% to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development, cloud computing, or related tech domains.
• 3+ years designing, implementing, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.

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

Software development

Cloud computing

Systems engineering

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

AI security

Job description

AWS is seeking a passionate and experienced security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud and secure generative AI deployments. The role focuses on threat detection, incident response, and scalable security architectures across projects with customers, partners, and internal teams.

The ideal candidate will consult, design, and build cloud-native security solutions, communicating security best practices to executives and engineers alike, while traveling up to 20% to