Staff Cloud & AI Security Architect (Remote)

Brookfield; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in production security or platform systems
• Strong AWS security expertise across IAM, multi-account environments, logging, KMS, networking
• Hands-on with Terraform or OpenTofu
• Experience securing CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions
• Knowledge of application security fundamentals and threat modeling
• Ability to read/write automation or code in Python, Go, Ruby

Responsibilities

• Define security architecture for cloud and AI platforms; set direction and secure-by-default patterns
• Review designs for authorization, data protection, secrets, and tenant isolation risks
• Lead security engineering standards and communicate risk to leadership
• Build repeatable security controls and guardrails in Terraform/OpenTofu and CI/CD pipelines
• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for web apps, APIs, data ingestion, and AI systems

Skills

Security architecture

AWS security

Threat modeling

Automation / scripting

Influence without authority

Production code

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

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