AWS Security Architect

For a major international organisation based in Brussels, we are looking for a Senior AWS Security Architect to strengthen its Cloud Security Architecture.

You will define and guide the organisation’s AWS Security Architecture, establishing security principles, standards and reusable architectural patterns. This is a technical architecture role, requiring strong AWS expertise and the ability to translate security and compliance requirements into concrete, implementable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain AWS Security Architecture, standards and reference architectures.
• Design reusable security patterns for IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, vulnerability management and resilience.
• Translate cybersecurity, risk and compliance requirements into technical controls.
• Review AWS and application architectures and identify security risks and control gaps.
• Guide Cloud, DevOps and DevSecOps teams during implementation.
• Define standards for IAM, privileged access and least privilege.
• Design approaches for encryption, key management and secrets management.
• Define logging, monitoring, alerting and threat-detection architectures.
• Contribute to vulnerability management, backup, recovery and business continuity.
• Document architectural decisions and implementation guidelines.

Required Profile

• Strong professional experience with AWS Cloud Architecture.
• Proven AWS Security Architecture experience.
• Experience defining security architectures, standards and reusable patterns.
• Strong knowledge of AWS IAM, network security and data security.
• Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, logging and monitoring.
• Knowledge of encryption, key management and secrets management.
• Experience with vulnerability and patch management.
• Experience working with Cloud Engineering, DevOps and/or DevSecOps teams.
• Ability to combine strategic Security Architecture with technical implementation.
• Strong communication skills in English.