Senior Cloud Security Architect (AWS)

Location: Hybrid; required in Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC, Knoxville, TN, or Lafayette, LA, United States.

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America.

What you will do

• Protect sensitive data and strengthen identity and access controls across enterprise environments.
• Secure AWS cloud environments, IaaS, SaaS, and internally developed applications.
• Work with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams.
• Lead multiple security initiatives and support compliance with enterprise policies and industry standards.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of STRIDE, attack trees, abuse cases, data flow analysis, and trust boundary analysis.
• Hands-on experience evaluating security risks in AI, machine learning, and agentic AI applications.
• Advanced AWS knowledge across IAM, networking, compute, storage, RDS, messaging, serverless, ECS/EKS, CI/CD, and AI/ML services.
• Strong understanding of application security, API security, IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, and data protection.
• Experience translating identified threats into practical security controls and remediation recommendations.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, pipeline security, container security, infrastructure security, SIEM, CSPM, and CWPP solutions.
• Familiarity with NIST, OWASP, CIS, FedRAMP, ISO, and SOX.
• Experience with resilient, highly available, API-driven, stateless, and integrated cloud or SaaS environments.
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Nice to have

• CISSP, CCSP, AWS Professional or Specialty certification, or equivalent credentials.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model.
• Direct-hire employment.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending account, life insurance, and voluntary plan options.
• Eligible employees may participate in a 401(k) plan.