AWS Cloud Security Architect

Job Title: AWS Cloud Security Architect
Location: Plano, TX/Reston, VA/Columbia, SC/Knoxville, TN/Lafayette, LA/Birmingham, AL
Work Model: Onsite – onsite

Responsibilities

• Provide security architecture guidance for enterprise applications, AWS cloud environments, hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity platforms, APIs, containers, data solutions, and AI enabled applications.
• Partner with application and engineering teams to securely migrate workloads from on premises environments to AWS and other approved cloud platforms.
• Define and maintain cloud security patterns, standards, guardrails, security requirements, reference architectures, and implementation guidance.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for cloud native, hybrid, API, container, third-party, and AI/GenAI solutions.
• Define appropriate security controls and recommend remediation or compensating controls when security gaps are identified.
• Support secure AI/GenAI adoption, including LLM integrations, RAG implementations, prompt security, data protection, access controls, monitoring, logging, and human in the loop safeguards.
• Support AI governance and risk management processes, including security reviews, monitoring requirements, incident escalation, and lifecycle controls.
• Assess solutions against applicable security frameworks and standards, including NIST, FedRAMP, and FIPS.
• Provide security guidance during technology evaluations, architecture reviews, security exceptions, and path to production activities.
• Work with cybersecurity engineering and operations teams on security capabilities involving SIEM, network security, endpoint security, data protection, and security configuration.
• Communicate security risks, requirements, and recommendations clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall IT experience, including significant cybersecurity and cloud security experience.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity architecture experience in roles such as Information Security Architect, Cloud Security Architect, or Infrastructure Security Architect.
• 5+ years of hands‑on AWS cloud security experience, including securing enterprise workloads and cloud migrations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security services, controls, IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, data protection, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience securing enterprise cloud and hybrid environments and performing security architecture reviews.
• Experience with threat modeling, security risk assessments, control gap analysis, and remediation planning.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, and FIPS.
• Experience defining and applying security standards, patterns, guardrails, and technical security controls.
• Working knowledge of AI/GenAI security, including prompt injection, data leakage, model access controls, AI guardrails, observability, approved model usage, and human oversight.
• Understanding of security considerations for LLMs, RAG solutions, APIs, containers, and enterprise data integrations.
• Ability to work effectively with application developers, cloud and infrastructure engineers, cybersecurity teams, enterprise architecture, compliance, risk, and business stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical security risks and requirements clearly.
• Strong organizational, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC, or similar cybersecurity certification is preferred.
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Azure AZ 500, or another relevant cloud security certification is preferred.

Desired Skillset:

• Security experience across Azure and/or GCP in addition to AWS.
• AI/GenAI security, AI governance, or AI risk management experience.
• Container and workload security experience covering build time and runtime controls.
• API security experience, including enterprise API gateways.
• Security engineering experience with SIEM, firewalls, endpoint/host security, or security configuration management.
• Experience with AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities such as security analysis, vulnerability prioritization, detection support, secure code…