Security Architect — AI Research Infrastructure

MATS Research, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 155,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office lunches

Paid travel

Professional development

Hybrid work

Insurance

Job summary

MATS Research, Inc. London, England, United Kingdom is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to secure our research infrastructure across a multi-cloud, high-performance compute environment.

You will design and implement security for CI/CD, research agents, and large-scale compute, with a focus on preventing data leakage, model exfiltration, and supply-chain compromise. You will own the security architecture for the research cluster, harden SLURM-based systems, manage zero-trust networking, and

Qualifications

• Deep Linux security and HPC familiarity with multi-user environments.
• Infra-as-code with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI).
• Experience securing cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/neocloud).
• Hands-on HPC scheduler security (SLURM) and Kubernetes knowledge a plus.
• Ability to threat-model and enforce supply-chain security.

Responsibilities

• Harden DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines with security guardrails.
• Secure software supply chain using signing and SBOMs.
• Define sandboxing and least-privilege execution for research agents.
• Own multi-cloud and cluster security across providers.
• Harden the research cluster (Linux OS, PAMP, kernel patching).
• Protect research data and model weights, with access controls.
• Monitor and detect security events, integrate with SIEM.
• Enable frontier access with compliant, secure collaboration.

Skills

Linux security

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Cloud security

AWS

GCP

neocloud

SLURM

Kubernetes

Threat modeling

Supply-chain security

Incident response

Tools

Snyk

Trivy

Sigstore

cosign

OPA

SBOM tooling

Job description

MATS Research, Inc. London, England, United Kingdom is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to secure our research infrastructure across a multi-cloud, high-performance compute environment.

You will design and implement security for CI/CD, research agents, and large-scale compute, with a focus on preventing data leakage, model exfiltration, and supply-chain compromise. You will own the security architecture for the research cluster, harden SLURM-based systems, manage zero-trust networking, and