Are you ready to shape the future of secure artificial intelligence — not just from the sidelines, but from the center of the action? The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center stands at the forefront of the AI revolution, where we're not just advising on technology — we're building it, securing it, and delivering it alongside the world's most innovative organizations.
As businesses race to adopt transformative GenAI capabilities, security isn't just a checkbox — it's the foundation that makes innovation possible. In this role, you'll be both the guardian and the builder — ensuring every GenAIIC engagement meets AWS' security bar while also rolling up your sleeves to deliver secure GenAI solutions directly to customers.
We're seeking a GenAI Security Consultant to serve as both engagement security leader and hands-on security practitioner across the full spectrum of GenAIIC delivery. You'll conduct security assessments and reviews for engagements across the global footprint, then step into those same engagements as a billable consultant, architect, and builder. From Proof of Concepts to Forward Deployed Engineering to traditional ProServe consulting, you'll be the security expert who ensures we deliver at the AWS security bar while driving customer outcomes. Why This Role Matters
In the GenAI Innovation Center, we deliver transformative GenAI solutions through multiple delivery models — POCs that prove what's possible, innovations that push the boundaries, FDE engagements that build alongside customers, and ProServe consulting that scales expertise. Security excellence must span all of these, and it requires someone who can operate at multiple altitudes — conducting governance and oversight one moment, writing secure code the next.
You'll be:
- Conducting security assessments, architecture reviews, and compliance evaluations across GenAIIC engagements globally, ensuring every delivery meets AWS security standards before, during, and after customer work
- Embedding as a billable security consultant within customer engagements across POCs, innovations, FDE, and ProServe delivery models, providing hands-on security architecture, implementation, and guidance
- Holding and enforcing the AWS security bar across diverse engagement types and customer contexts, translating security requirements into practical, deployable solutions
- Partnering with internal delivery teams, AWS Security, ProServe Security, and third-party partners to architect and implement security controls that are both rigorous and pragmatic
- Building reusable security patterns, accelerators, and reference architectures based on real engagement experience that scale your impact across the practice
The Innovation Opportunity
This role sits at the intersection of governance and delivery, giving you visibility and influence across the entire GenAIIC portfolio. You'll have the unique opportunity to:
- Shape security standards and practices for GenAIIC engagements through your oversight role, then validate and refine those standards through hands-on delivery
- Work across the full spectrum of GenAIIC delivery models, building expertise in POC security, innovation prototyping, forward-deployed engineering, and traditional consulting
- Deliver billable consulting services that directly impact customer success while also driving the security posture of the broader GenAIIC practice
- Build a reputation as a security expert who can navigate complex governance requirements and deliver production-ready solutions under pressure
If you're energized by operating at multiple levels — strategic oversight and hands-on delivery — if you're passionate about both governance and building, and if you want to be the security expert who ensures GenAIIC delivers securely at scale, this role is for you. Join us in shaping and delivering the future of secure AI innovation at AWS.
Key job responsibilities Security for GenAI
- Conduct security assessments, architecture reviews, and compliance evaluations for GenAIIC engagements across POCs, innovations, FDE, and ProServe delivery models
- Embed as a billable security consultant within customer engagements, delivering hands-on security architecture, implementation, and advisory services for GenAI solutions
- Design and implement production-ready security architectures for enterprise GenAI deployments, with specific service configurations, working code, and deployable solutions
- Build and deploy security controls specific to GenAI applications, including prompt injection defenses, data boundary enforcement, model access controls, and audit logging
- Develop reusable security accelerators, reference implementations, and governance frameworks that enable secure delivery across engagement types
- Partner with AWS Security, ProServe Security, and third-party security organizations to ensure engagement security requirements are identified, tracked, and resolved
GenAI for Security Innovation
- Design and build innovative GenAI-powered security solutions within the context of customer engagements and internal innovation initiatives
- Develop proof-of-concepts and working prototypes for novel applications of GenAI in security operations, tailored to customer environments and GenAIIC use cases
- Build security-focused applications leveraging AWS GenAI services (Amazon Bedrock, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Security Lake, and others) that solve real customer and engagement security problems
- Partner with customers and internal teams to identify and implement GenAI-powered security capabilities that can be operationalized at scale
- Contribute to the development of new security offerings and methodologies that advance how GenAI is used to enhance security capabilities
Thought Leadership & Industry Impact
- Author security guidance, reference architectures, and implementation guides that capture and scale security patterns developed through engagements
- Present at customer briefings, AWS events, and industry conferences on GenAI security implementation and engagement security best practices
- Collaborate with AWS service teams to provide engagement-driven feedback on security features and capabilities based on real deployment experience
- Contribute to the development of security standards and best practices for GenAI implementation across POC, innovation, FDE, and consulting delivery models
- Share knowledge and mentor team members on secure implementation practices and engagement security processes, elevating the security capability of the broader GenAIIC practice
Success in this role requires exceptional technical depth, strong governance and risk management skills, the ability to operate effectively across oversight and delivery contexts, and the judgment to balance security rigor with delivery velocity across diverse engagement types.
A day in the life As a GenAI Security Consultant spanning engagement security and customer delivery, you might start your day conducting a security assessment for an upcoming POC engagement, identifying security requirements and compliance obligations. By mid-morning, you're embedded in a Forward Deployed Engineering engagement, writing and testing security controls for a customer's Amazon Bedrock deployment. After lunch, you're facilitating a security review for a ProServe consulting engagement, reviewing architecture and code for security issues. By afternoon, you're in a working session with AWS Security on a high-risk use case, then contributing to a reusable security accelerator based on patterns from recent engagements. Your day might conclude with a knowledge-sharing session with the GenAIIC security team, discussing lessons learned and evolving best practices. Throughout the day, you'll balance governance oversight, hands-on delivery, stakeholder management, and knowledge capture — always ensuring GenAIIC delivers securely at scale.
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Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
- Knowledge of the primary aws services (ec2, elb, rds, route53 & s3)
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of IT implementation experience
- degree in advanced technology, or AWS Professional level certification
- Knowledge of AWS services including compute, storage, networking, security, databases, machine learning, and serverless technologies
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards including HIPAA and GDPR
- Experience and technical expertise (design and implementation) in cloud computing technologies
- Experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Experience in performance optimization and cost management for cloud environments
- Experience presenting technical solutions to diverse audiences in pre-sales environments
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