AI-Driven Cloud Security Architect

Zscaler; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off plans

Parental leave

Retirement options

In-office perks

Job summary

Zscaler seeks an experienced Security Architect / Security Engineer to design, build, and operationalize security controls for agentic AI and cloud-native environments. This is a Remote-USA role reporting to the VP, Information Security Engineering in the Exposure Management & Security Operations department.

You will ship production-grade security controls, develop reference architectures, and drive remediation for security issues across AI systems and cloud platforms in partnership with SOC and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of security engineering, cloud security, application security, or platform security with direct implementation ownership.
• Strong coding skills with production systems in Python, TypeScript, or Node.
• Hands-on with agentic AI systems including tool calling, multi-step planning, RAG, memory/state management.
• Cloud security experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP including IAM, logging, Kubernetes, and IaC security.
• Incident response experience using SIEM, SOAR, EDR, CSPM, or CNAPP tools.
• Familiarity with OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF and modern cloud security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build secure agent runtimes, reusable libraries, reference implementations, and validation pipelines for agentic AI applications.
• Implement secure agent patterns including planner/executor flows, tool routing, memory/state controls, and RAG trust boundaries.
• Design and implement security controls for cloud-native environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, logging, and workload protection.
• Partner with platform and engineering teams to embed secure-by-default cloud controls into shared services and workflows.
• Lead incident response, triage, and remediation workflows for cloud platforms and AI systems with SOC and engineering teams.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Application security

Platform security

Python/TypeScript/Node

Agentic AI security

Incident response

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

CSPM

CNAPP

Kubernetes

IaC security

Job description

Zscaler seeks an experienced Security Architect / Security Engineer to design, build, and operationalize security controls for agentic AI and cloud-native environments. This is a Remote-USA role reporting to the VP, Information Security Engineering in the Exposure Management & Security Operations department.

You will ship production-grade security controls, develop reference architectures, and drive remediation for security issues across AI systems and cloud platforms in partnership with SOC and