Cloud Security Architect (AI)

Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Onsite five days per week; no remote work.

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 per year.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications, with a focus on AI and agentic AI solutions.
• Evaluate applications, APIs, cloud platforms, SaaS solutions, and distributed systems to identify security risks and define controls.
• Protect sensitive data, strengthen identity and access controls, secure cloud environments, and support compliance with enterprise policies and industry standards.
• Collaborate with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams.

Requirements

• Strong AWS expertise and the ability to lead multiple security initiatives across IaaS, SaaS, and internally developed applications.
• 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 frameworks and standards.
• 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.
• Must be able to work onsite five days per week in Birmingham, Alabama.

Nice to have

• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCSP, AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, or equivalent credentials.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire W-2 employment; no C2C with third parties.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending account, life insurance, and voluntary plan options.
• Participation in a 401(k) plan is available to eligible employees.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.