Cybersecurity AI Architect

Major Responsibilities
Defines secure reference architectures for LLM, RAG, agentic, and other AI enabled systems across cloud and enterprise environments
Leads AI threat modeling and identifies design controls for prompt injection, insecure output handling, excessive agent permissions, model abuse, data leakage, and supply chain risk
Establishes architecture standards for identity, secrets management, data classification, network boundaries, logging, model access, and third party AI service consumption.
Designs guardrails and security patterns for input filtering, grounding controls, policy enforcement, human in the loop checkpoints, and runtime monitoring
Partners with engineering teams to embed security requirements into AI platforms, developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployment patterns.
Drives evaluation of AI security tooling, including posture management, red teaming, model and prompt testing, observability, and policy enforcement capabilities
Creates implementation guidance, reference patterns, and design reviews that help teams deliver secure AI features consistently at scale
Supports incident readiness by defining telemetry, detections, escalation points, and response considerations for AI specific security events
Influences enterprise AI governance by connecting architecture decisions to risk, compliance, privacy, and acceptable use expectations
Minimum Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
Certification / License
Work Experience
7 years of experience in cybersecurity, software security, cloud security, or security architecture roles
2 years of direct experience designing or securing AI, ML, LLM, or data intensive platforms in production environments
Hands on experience with cloud native architecture patterns in AWS, Azure, or GCP, including IAM, logging, networking, encryption, and secrets management
Experience performing threat modeling, architecture review, and security design for modern applications, APIs, and distributed systems
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Strong understanding of AI system components, including models, prompts, retrieval layers, agents, plugins, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines.
Working knowledge of AI security risks such as prompt injection, insecure tool use, excessive autonomy, training data exposure, sensitive data leakage, and model supply chain concerns.
Strong grasp of core security architecture domains, including identity, cryptography, application security, cloud security, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
Clear communicator who can work across engineering, product, privacy, legal, and executive stakeholders
Ability to translate security risk into practical technical requirements and influence engineers, architects, and platform owners.
Preferred Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
Certification / License
Cloud security, security architecture, or AI/ML related certifications are helpful but not required
Work Experience
Experience securing AI platforms built on services such as AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Azure AI, Google Vertex AI, or equivalent
Experience with AI security testing, red teaming, prompt attack evaluation, or model and agent assessment techniques
Familiarity with orchestration and agent frameworks
Experience implementing policy, observability, and runtime control layers around AI systems and external tools
Exposure to governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, or similar guidance
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Ability to balance secure by design principles with speed of delivery, and to convert emerging AI risks into practical standards, reusable patterns, and engineering guidance

Work arrangement
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