Cybersecurity Engineer, AI Platform

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Job Responsibilities:

• Deploy, integrate, and operate AI security controls in production; create runbooks, health checks, and dashboards.
• Implement SSO/MFA, SCIM, and RBAC for AI tools/services; enforce least-privilege and purpose-binding; automate access reviews and certification evidence.
• Build and maintain AI security pipelines: prompt/response logging with privacy filtering, retention/expiration, and secrets/key management.
• Contribute to AI-IR playbooks for data and model incidents (triage, scoping, containment, evidence capture); coordinate with CSOC/IR.
• Partner with Data Protection on tagging/classification and lineage for AI training and inference data flows.
• Performs security, compliance, and risk assessments on projects throughout project lifecycle.
• Participates on information security review of new technologies, designs, and remediation planning efforts.
• Collaborates and participates on identification of security needs & recommends plans/resolutions. Implements, tests & monitors info security improvements.
• Maintains visibility inside & outside of info security at an Engineering professional level. Interfaces with groups such as application support, engineering ops, finance, privacy, risk management, etc.
• Helps to generate and execute information security policy life cycle throughout, including intake, creation, review, approval, implementation, publishing, communication & maintenance.
• Helps execute security projects driven by groups both internal and external to info security.
• Familiarity with the analysis of underlying technologies that form the solution necessary for the application of threat identification, analysis, and thread model design. The threat model depicts trust boundary, threat agent(s), threat vector(s), and safeguard(s) necessary to protect person, asset, data, and T-Mobile brand.
• Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, or Information Technology (required). Equivalent experience in lieu of degree may be considered.

Experience:

• 2-4 years in cybersecurity/platform engineering with hands-on deployment and operations of security controls at enterprise scale
• 1-3 years implementing or operating AI-adjacent controls (AI-SPM, LLM security, Shadow AI, Prompt security, etc).
• Built or supported data classification/tagging and lineage for AI workflows, integrating with Varonis/Obsidian or equivalent DSPM/SSPM platforms.
• Integrated control telemetry and decisions into SIEM/SOAR and ticketing/CMDB; created dashboards for coverage, enforcement, SLA, and MTTR.
• Strong knowledge of multiple security subject areas
• Some knowledge of critical security elements, threats, vulnerabilities, and safeguards
• Knowledge of information AI security policies and regulatory controls (per team function)
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate internally, upward, and cross functionally; ability to interface with cross-functional team members to gain support required to accomplish assignments; able to build coalitions.
• Always act with tact and integrity, and interface with a variety of individuals in a positive and productive manner.
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, and multitask.
• Strong problem solving / troubleshooting skills.
• Clear documentation and communication; able to teach runbooks and patterns to engineering and operations teams.
• Bias for automation and reliability; deliver control-as-code, health checks, metrics, and self-healing where possible.
• 2-4years' Experience working in a large enterprise.
• 2-4 years' Experience in a dedicated security engineering role.
• Knowledge of federal & compliance regulations e.g. SOX, PCI & CPNI
• Knowledge of Scripting tools (Python/Perl/Shell/HTML/PHP).
  

License/Certification (Preferred):

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP and/or CCSK and/or CCSP and/or CISA/CISM certification)
• AI and governance: IAPP AIGP or NIST AI RMF practitioner training/certificate; Cloud AI certs (AWS ML Specialty, Azure AI Engineer, Google GenAI/Professional ML Engineer) are a plus.
• Cloud: AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Associate (or equivalent).
• Vendor or platform training in one or more: Reco, Knostic, S1/Prompt Security, Wiz, Varonis/Obsidian, Splunk/Sentinel/SOAR, ServiceNow.

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• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

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