Senior Cybersecurity Platform Engineer

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This role is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and maintaining security platforms that support enterprise cybersecurity operations. The role focuses on integrating security agents/tools, improving detection capabilities, ensuring platform reliability, and enabling security teams through scalable infrastructure and automation. This role demands cloud experience blended with platform engineering capabilities to mature the AI Security platform/tools.

• Design, implement, maintain, and improve security platforms and tools that protect the organization’s IT infrastructure.
• Optimize security technologies to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats in real time.
• Collaborate with engineering, IT, and security operations teams to deploy and support enterprise cybersecurity platforms and solutions.
• Secure in-house and public AI and ML/DL systems against cyber threats, adversarial attacks, and data breaches across the solution lifecycle.
• Design and implement robust security platforms supporting enterprise security needs (e.g., unified telemetry pipeline like Bind Plane, SIEM like QRadar, Sec Ops, and AI security).
• Define and maintain guidelines and controls to secure AI systems, including data protection, model security, and compliance requirements.
• Apply established frameworks as references/baselines (e.g., Google Secure AI Framework (SAIF), NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Framework for AI Cybersecurity Practices (FAICP)).
• Identify, assess, and mitigate AI-specific security risks (adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, unauthorized access).
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines.
• Ensure AI data is encrypted, anonymized, and securely stored.
• Implement access controls for sensitive AI data and models (RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust).
• Protect AI models from tampering, theft, and adversarial manipulation during training and deployment.
• Monitor and log AI system activity for anomalies and security incidents.
• Develop and enforce policies to align AI systems with industry regulations, ethical standards, and organizational governance requirements.
• Develop automated workflows and scripts to enhance security platform functionality and scalability, improving operational efficiency.
• Manage timely patching and upgrades to security tools and systems to reduce downtime and minimize vulnerabilities.
• Configure alerting systems for security threats and enable real-time monitoring for observability.
• Partner with incident response teams to identify, contain, and mitigate security incidents.
• Support root cause analysis to improve security posture and prevent repeat breaches.
• Optimize security tools and platforms for performance and effectiveness while meeting compliance and organizational requirements.
• Maintain documentation for platform configurations, AI services and capabilities, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field OR a combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, and AI/ML, including experience in large, complex environments, such as:
• Managing security platforms and tools in enterprise environments
• Telemetry pipeline platforms (e.g., Bind Plane), SIEM (e.g., Splunk, QRadar), and vulnerability management tools
• Scripting and automation (Python, Power Shell, and/or Bash)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Cloud security tools and…