VP of AI Security Automation & Platform Engineering

State Street; Kilkenny; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street in Kilkenny, Ireland, is seeking a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to advance AI-powered security platforms within CyberDNA. The role partners with Global Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Continuity Services to deliver intelligent automation and data-driven security solutions.

You will design scalable, cloud-native AI services, implement agentic workflows, and ensure governance, reliability, and secure operation across the platform lifecycle while mentoring

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, AI, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable AI security automation platforms for security workflows.
• Design and build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration.
• Architect retrieval and context-engineering approaches including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management.
• Engineer cloud-native AI services in AWS, Azure, and GCP using containers, serverless patterns, and distributed data stores.
• Optimize platform performance across latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls.
• Build well-governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes.
• Establish evaluation, testing, and observability frameworks to improve quality and agent behavior.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence engineering direction through code reviews and architecture forums.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Rust

Go

Bash

PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

AI security

Education

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Harness

Spinnaker

Argo CD

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Delta Lake

Airflow

Job description

State Street in Kilkenny, Ireland, is seeking a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to advance AI-powered security platforms within CyberDNA. The role partners with Global Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Continuity Services to deliver intelligent automation and data-driven security solutions.

You will design scalable, cloud-native AI services, implement agentic workflows, and ensure governance, reliability, and secure operation across the platform lifecycle while mentoring