Senior Cloud Security Architect — AI & Threat Detection

Amazon Web Services (AWS); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Global Sales (AGS) seeks a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud with a focus on threat detection, incident response, and secure generative AI deployments. You will design scalable security solutions, produce technical artifacts, and share best practices across AWS teams.

Travel up to 20% is required. The role combines technical depth with business acumen and strong communication to influence customers and internal stakeholders in North America and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain experience (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, 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 to design and build both threat detection and incident response capabilities.
• Provide security expertise and support for customers implementing generative AI technologies.
• 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

Generative AI security

Security architecture

Cloud security

Communication

Mentorship

Job description

AWS Global Sales (AGS) seeks a seasoned security professional to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud with a focus on threat detection, incident response, and secure generative AI deployments. You will design scalable security solutions, produce technical artifacts, and share best practices across AWS teams.

Travel up to 20% is required. The role combines technical depth with business acumen and strong communication to influence customers and internal stakeholders in North America and