Lead Security Engineer Artificial Inteligence

We are seeking a Lead Security Engineerwith deep experience securing enterprise systems cloud platforms andagentbased AI development environmentsat scale. This role is handson and executionfocused responsible for defining guardrails around AI workloads across the full lifecycledevelopmentdeployment training and inference. 

The ideal candidate combinesproduction grade AI engineeringwith advanced expertise incloud security DevSecOps identity and governance enabling organizations to adoptGenAI Microsoft Agents and AIassisted code generation platformssafely and at scale. 

This role aligns closely to modernEngineer expectations with a specialization inAI platform security and riskaware AI delivery. 

What you will do:  

• Secure corporate AI capabilitiesused inenterprise applications 
• Establish Best Practices for model implementation versioning monitoring and governance for AI Systems on the Enterprise.  
• Design/Implement guardrails forAI codegeneration toolsused in developer workflows 
• Enable and implement safe AIassisted development across IDEs CI/CD pipelines and local developer environments 
• Support model selection and integrationswithin theorganization(Claude class GPTclass and similar platforms) 
• Engineer and secure Microsoft Agents Copilotstyle workflows and agentdriven automation.  
• Prevent insecure code generation prompt leakage and unsafe agent behavior while preserving developer velocity 

Qualifications :

Preferred:  

• Strong proficiency inPythonfor AI workflows automation and orchestration 
• Experience with RAG pipelines embeddings APIs and AI service integration 
• Understanding of AI lifecycle risks 
• Strong experience securing AI workloads onAWS & Azure 
• Experience with Cloud Hardening Best Practices. 
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for Cloud preferably Terraform 
• Strong background inapplication security cloud security and IAM 
• Experience embedding security intoCI/CD IaC and SDLC workflows 
• Automation experience usingPython PowerShell Bash and APIs 
• Strong RHEL Linux skills especially at the command line level. 
• Strong understanding of AI/LLM-specific threats such as prompt injection data poisoning model theft adversarial attacks sensitive data leakage etc.  
• Experience implementing AI security controls such as guardrails content filtering input/output validation RBAC for AI systems secure prompt handling and AI audit logging  
• Understanding of secure AI architecture and AI governance frameworks  
• Familiarity with:  
• OWASP> Top 10 for LLM Applications  
• NIST AI Risk Management Framework  
• Responsible AI and AI compliance practices 
• Familiarity with SIEM threat detectionandvulnerability management. Previous experience with integrating AI with SIEM systems 

Required:  

• Bachelors degree or direct and applicable work experience.  
• 7 years of experience working in architecting of server or network controls in any of the following: DevOps DevSecOps Identity and Access Management (IAM) system virtualization Windows and Linux Security Cloud Security Network and Network Security Active Directory Java XML JSON Azure AWS MySQL Federation SSO.  
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory program requirements such as HIPAA ISO 27000 NIST FISMA and SOC standards.  
• Experience architecting and designing security solutions at the enterprise level. Strong knowledge of high-scale cloud systems within multiple accounts and how they can be secured using agreed best practices.  
• Experience with DevSecOps and automation in highly scalable environments.  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. A certain degree of creativity innovation and latitude is required (the ability to think outside the box when faced with challenges).  
• High attention to detail while completing tasks and processes. Ability to prioritize to maximize personal efficiency.  
• Ability to help design solutions for cybersecurity problems.  
• Strong compliance and regulatory-focused customer service orientation with effective verbal and written communication skills working with technical and non-technical personnel with the ability to address all levels of leadership business technical and non-technical staff.  
• Travel required up to 5%  

Additional Information :

a. Identify risk-related issues and architect solutions to avoid potential security incidents and business impact. 

b. Create architecture policies aligning with industry best practices for cybersecurity and resiliency. 

c. Design security for monitoring logging IAM encryption data protection detection. and preventive controls. 

d. Provide expertise and best practices for implementing cloud security and secured code detection and prevention. 

e. Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments. 

f. Develop and maintain secure resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers. 

g. Actively monitor assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments. 

h. Align with architects to create secure workloads in AWS Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. 

i. Advise and design with commercial and open-source security tools and controls. 

j. Communicate security posture to cybersecurity leaders stakeholders IT and developers. 

k. Design for integrated security controls workflows data protection authentication and authorization. 

l. Acts as technical architect for Windows Linux VMware Kubernetes Docker and others used to support business needs. 

m. Other duties as assigned. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Wellmark supports and expects the responsible use of AI for our workforce! We welcome the responsible use of these tools by job seekers as well and are interested in learning from you; you will have an opportunity in the application process to share which tools you used and how you applied them. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time