AI Gateway Security Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Job summary
Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA is seeking an AI Gateway Security Engineer, Lead to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise AI gateway security across multi-cloud and federal environments. You will lead the implementation of AI security controls, including guardrails and policy enforcement, and mentor a technical team while building scalable, highly available security architectures.
The role emphasizes automation of policy-as-code, remediation workflows, and governance using Kubernetes,
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity operations, security engineering, or vulnerability management.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and administering AI security measures such as AI gateways and guardrails in large, complex, and multi-cloud environments.
- Experience with API integrations and machine to machine authentication and authorization such as API keys and OAuth.
- Experience with AI application and agent architectures or protocols, including LLM inference, MCP, and A2A.
- Experience supporting security tooling within federal environments.
- Experience building high availability architectures to support enterprise scale deployments.
- Ability to implement, operationalize, and maintain enterprise cloud security policies and governance controls.
- Ability to automate tooling and workflows via APIs, Terraform, Kubernetes, or scripting.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- Bachelor's degree.
Responsibilities
- Designs, deploys, and maintains AI gateway security across multi-cloud and federal environments.
- Leads implementation of AI security controls, including guardrails and policy enforcement.
- Automates policy-as-code, remediation workflows, and governance using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, APIs, scripting, and OPA.
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Education
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Job description
Designs, deploys, integrates, and maintains enterprise AI gateway capabilities across complex, multi-cloud and federal environments. Leads implementation of AI security controls, including guardrails, policy enforcement, secure API integrations, and machine-to-machine authentication supporting LLM inference and agent-based architectures. Works without considerable direction and mentors and may supervise team members. Develops scalable, highly available security architectures and automates policy-as-code, remediation workflows, and governance controls using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, APIs, scripting, and OPA. Leads continuous improvement of security workflows, playbooks, escalation paths, service-level expectations, and governance processes supporting Wiz and cloud security tools. Partners with cloud engineering, security operations, compliance, DevSecOps, application, and system-owner teams to operationalize findings, drive remediation to closure, and mentor technical team members. Join us. The world can't wait.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity operations, security engineering, or vulnerability management
- Experience deploying, configuring, and administering AI security measures such as AI gateways and guardrails in large, complex, and multi-cloud environments
- Experience with API integrations and machine to machine authentication and authorization such as API keys and OAuth
- Experience with AI application and agent architectures or protocols, including LLM inference, MCP, and A2A
- Experience supporting security tooling within federal environments
- Experience building high availability architectures to support enterprise scale deployments
- Ability to implement, operationalize, and maintain enterprise cloud security policies and governance controls
- Ability to automate tooling and workflows via APIs, Terraform, Kubernetes, or scripting
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with Kong AI Gateway
- Experience deploying and managing kubernetes infrastructure
- Experience using CI/CD to manage and deploy policy as code
- Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Experience coding custom plugins for AI Gateways Kong
- Certifications such as Kong Gateway Certified Associate Certification
- Cloud security Certification such as CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.
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