1 month ago
Gurgaon, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Perform AI runtime assessments covering AI assets, prompt and response paths, tool calls, identity chains, attack surfaces, and risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and agent misuse.
- Deploy, integrate, and harden Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, Koi Agentic Endpoint Security, Onyx, Zenity, Zscaler AI Security, and CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR.
- Design AI security control planes and define allow, block, and human-in-the-loop policies for prompts, tools, MCP calls, extensions, packages, and agent actions.
- Integrate AI security telemetry with SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, SSE/Zero Trust, IAM, CSPM, and ticketing systems.
- Conduct AI red teaming and validate that findings are converted into enforceable guardrails and closed or accepted residual risk.
- Lead customer architecture workshops, implementation sprints, policy workshops, knowledge transfer, and on-site troubleshooting.
- Produce assessment reports, risk memos, architecture decision records, board-ready summaries, runbooks, and detection content.
- Share field patterns, integration gaps, and detection ideas with product, threat research, and delivery teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, or technical consulting, including at least 2 years focused on cloud, application, or AI/LLM security.
- Hands-on production or customer-environment deployment experience with multiple listed AI security platforms, including Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, Koi, Onyx, Zenity, Zscaler AI Security, and CrowdStrike.
- Demonstrated ability to perform AI runtime assessments and translate prompt injection, jailbreak, data-exfiltration, and agent-abuse findings into controls.
- Working fluency with LLMs, SLMs, RAG, agents, multi-agent systems, MCP servers, copilots, model gateways, and AWS, Azure, and Google cloud AI platforms.
- Strong integration skills across Okta, Entra ID, endpoints, network/SSE, APIs, Kubernetes or container platforms, and logging pipelines.
- Ability to independently debug connectors, certificates, proxies, agents, and policy conflicts on site.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness to travel extensively and embed with customers for multi-day or multi-week deployments.
- Exceptional written and spoken English, including the ability to produce technical assessments and brief CISOs and engineering stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include forward-deployed or professional-services experience, relevant vendor certifications, AI red-teaming knowledge, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, scripting in Python and Bash, PowerShell, or Go, and experience with regulated industries or technical public speaking.
Benefits
- Comprehensive India health insurance with dependent coverage options.
- Paid time off, company holidays, and additional leave benefits according to policy.
- Flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance.
- Learning and development opportunities, including sponsored certifications and credentials.
- Employee wellness initiatives supporting physical and mental well-being.
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations.
- Inclusive, people-first culture with collaboration and ownership.
- Extensive travel and customer-embedded deployments are part of the role.
Tech Stack
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Forward Deployed
About AHEAD
AHEAD is an IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and operates digital platforms for large enterprises across cloud infrastructure, automation, data and analytics, security, and DevOps. It generates revenue through consulting, systems integration, and managed services, including cloud management and operations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and owned by Centerbridge Partners.