Senior Cloud Security Architect: AI & Threat Detection

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud, focusing on threat detection, incident response, and securing generative AI workloads. You will design scalable security solutions, produce technical artifacts, and mentor teams across sales and solutions architecture.

The role involves advisory work with customers and partners, travel up to 20%, and collaboration with cross-functional AWS teams to advance security, risk, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains (e.g. software development, cloud computing, security, networking, data & analytics).
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries.
• Hands-on expertise designing and implementing security for AI and agentic workloads.

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

Threat detection

Incident response

Cloud security

Generative AI security

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud, focusing on threat detection, incident response, and securing generative AI workloads. You will design scalable security solutions, produce technical artifacts, and mentor teams across sales and solutions architecture.

The role involves advisory work with customers and partners, travel up to 20%, and collaboration with cross-functional AWS teams to advance security, risk, and