Scientist, AI & Cloud Security Architect
About The Position
The Scientist is responsible for defining and driving the enterprise security strategy, target-state architecture, and governance model for AI, cloud and container platforms across Azure and AWS. Reporting within the CISO organization, this role focuses on secure-by-design architecture, enterprise guardrails, risk-informed adoption patterns, and security integration for modern platforms. This leader partners closely with Security Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure and Data/AI teams to establish secure, scalable, and reusable platform patterns that enable rapid, compliant adoption of AI and cloud capabilities across the enterprise. The role serves as a strategic bridge between cybersecurity, enterprise technology, and engineering organizations to ensure AI, cloud, and container platform innovation is enabled with strong security, resilience, and governance foundations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud connectivity patterns, network segmentation, and secure landing zones.
- Strong communication and executive‑level advisory capabilities.
- Thought leadership in AI transformation, cloud modernization, container platform initiatives.
- Experience contributing or leading security, architecture or governance boards.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust frameworks and enterprise‑grade security architectures.
- Ability to synthesize complex technical topics into actionable strategies for diverse stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop enterprise AI security and governance frameworks covering model lifecycle, data boundaries, and risk controls.
- Create AI reference architectures ensuring secure, compliant integration of generative and cloud-native AI capabilities.
- Advise leadership on emerging AI technologies, associated risks, and secure platform adoption strategies.
- Define multi-cloud security strategy, reference architectures, and enterprise guardrails for Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.
- Standardize observability, networking, and compliance architectures across cloud platforms.
- Lead design reviews and maintain cloud architectural patterns enabling secure-by-design adoption.
- Partner with software engineering teams to embed security guardrails into their active implementations.
- Define security architecture, controls, and governance for Kubernetes, container orchestration, and runtime environments.
- Establish secure build, registry, and deployment patterns for containers across cloud and on‑prem platforms.
- Integrate container security posture, registry/image scanning, host OS scanning, and workload protection into enterprise standards.
- Work closely with stakeholders inside of IT and within other business functions to enforce the organizational security strategy.
- Translate complex technical issues into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders.
- Contribute to security standards, architectural guidance and policy improvements.
Benefits
- health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- education assistance
- parental leave
- paid time off
- company-paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
