AI Security Operations Lead: Agentic Platform & Automation

AstraZeneca; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca is seeking a hands-on technical leader to secure and scale an enterprise Agentic AI ecosystem, protecting data and accelerating science. You will own the AI security control plane, harden agent systems, and establish auditable monitoring and response across their lifecycle.

Lead architecture assurance, governance and secure lifecycle operations, building production-grade automations in Python and guiding platform security as models and attack techniques evolve.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a cybersecurity/CS/engineering field or related experience.
• Hands-on experience in cybersecurity engineering, operations, automation, platform engineering or related areas.
• Proven ability to build production-grade automation or agents using Python.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement and improve controls for agentic AI security across identity, authorization and data boundaries.
• Create reusable secure patterns and guardrails that teams can adopt broadly.
• Assess architectures, embed security into design reviews and threat models.
• Own secure lifecycle activities from discovery to retirement with proper risk tagging.
• Develop telemetry and monitoring, integrate with SIEM/SOAR for observable agent behavior.

Skills

Python

Cybersecurity

Security operations

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Cybersecurity/CS/SE/Data Science

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Job description

AstraZeneca is seeking a hands-on technical leader to secure and scale an enterprise Agentic AI ecosystem, protecting data and accelerating science. You will own the AI security control plane, harden agent systems, and establish auditable monitoring and response across their lifecycle.

Lead architecture assurance, governance and secure lifecycle operations, building production-grade automations in Python and guiding platform security as models and attack techniques evolve.