Lead AI Security Engineer, AI Identities-2
Mastercard9 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and operate discovery and inventory mechanisms for AI models, agents, autonomous workflows, service accounts, API principals, and dynamically created AI identities.
- Define and operationalize AI identity lifecycle controls covering creation, modification, rotation, suspension, and decommissioning.
- Design and enforce least-privilege, role-based, attribute-based, and context-aware access controls for AI systems.
- Monitor AI identity behavior, detect identity-based risks, investigate threats, and assess ongoing identity risk.
- Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, security assessments, and control-effectiveness testing across environments.
- Develop AI identity security standards, patterns, SOPs, runbooks, reports, KPIs, KRIs, and audit evidence.
- Advise and educate engineering and platform teams on AI identity risks, controls, and monitoring practices.
- Research emerging AI identity-security approaches and execute proofs of concept for tools, controls, and monitoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong experience in identity and access management, security engineering, or security operations, with exposure to AI or highly automated systems.
- Expertise in Least Agency frameworks, Zero Trust Architecture, Delegated Authority Management, Cryptographic Identities, and Short Lived Credentialing.
- Practical experience securing non-human identities, service accounts, APIs, or machine-to-machine access.
- Understanding of AI/ML architectures and identity use across data pipelines, model execution, and agent-based systems.
- Ability to design, assess, and operationalize identity controls at scale.
- Strong analytical and communication skills for translating identity risk into actionable security outcomes.
- CISSP, GIAC, CIAM/IAM-related, or cloud security certifications are desirable.
- The role aligns with the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework across identity and access management, security control assessment, cybersecurity architecture, systems security management, and incident response.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.