Security Architect: AI Cloud Security & Zero-Trust (Remote)

Northbridge Recruitment; Australia; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Northbridge Recruitment seeks a Security Architect to secure AI infrastructure across Australia. The role blends hands-on delivery with security design ownership for shared platforms and workloads.

You will lead security design, implement controls, and collaborate with platform, infra and solutions teams to enable zero-trust multi-tenancy and attestations while working with HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes/OpenShift and GitOps tooling.

Qualifications

• Previous hands-on NVIDIA BlueField DPU deployment experience.
• Production HashiCorp Vault deployment and operational experience.
• Zero-trust multi-tenancy experience with micro-segmentation and tenant isolation.
• Confidential computing experience including attestation and data in use protection.
• Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift security expertise including RBAC and platform hardening with policy tooling.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key technical security authority collaborating with platform, infra and solutions teams to design, implement and validate security controls.
• Split role: ~60% hands-on delivery and 40% technical advisory and pre-sales support, including client workshops, scoping and estimates.
• Implement NVIDIA BlueField/DOCA security controls, micro-segmentation, and host workload isolation.
• Design and enforce zero-trust tenant isolation across shared AI infrastructure.
• Implement confidential computing and attestation to protect data in use.
• Deploy and operate HashiCorp Vault for tenant-scoped secrets management and workload identity.
• Secure Kubernetes and OpenShift with RBAC, hardening and admission policies via OPA/Kyverno.
• Embed security controls through automation and GitOps.
• Lead client technical discussions and contribute to solution designs and SLAs.

Skills

NVIDIA BlueField deployment experience

Zero-trust architecture

Kubernetes/OpenShift security

Security design and implementation

Security automation

Tools

NVIDIA BlueField/DOCA

HashiCorp Vault

OPA/Kyverno

Job description

Northbridge Recruitment seeks a Security Architect to secure AI infrastructure across Australia. The role blends hands-on delivery with security design ownership for shared platforms and workloads.

You will lead security design, implement controls, and collaborate with platform, infra and solutions teams to enable zero-trust multi-tenancy and attestations while working with HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes/OpenShift and GitOps tooling.