Senior Cloud Security Architect - AI & Threat Detection

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud and secure generative AI deployments.

You will design threat detection and incident response capabilities, advise on secure AI integrations, and build scalable security solutions for AWS environments. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication across organizational levels, and the ability to deliver concrete recommendations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains (e.g., security, cloud computing, software development)
• 3+ years in design/consulting for applications and infrastructures
• Hands-on experience with security for AI/agentic workloads

Responsibilities

• Independently contribute to teams to design and build threat detection and incident response capabilities
• Provide security expertise for customers deploying generative AI technologies
• Design and build automation for security, risk, and compliance on AWS
• Create artifacts (automation tools, reference architectures, white papers) to help customers and partners
• Communicate cloud security, risk, and compliance best practices to customers
• Collaborate with AWS teams to drive security product adoption
• Mentor AWS sales and solutions architecture teams on security topics
• Represent AWS at trade events with security presentations/workshops
• Some travel required (up to 20%)

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Security architecture

Generative AI security

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud and secure generative AI deployments.

You will design threat detection and incident response capabilities, advise on secure AI integrations, and build scalable security solutions for AWS environments. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication across organizational levels, and the ability to deliver concrete recommendations.