AI Security Lead: Guard AI Agents & Azure Gateways

100 CRC Insurance Group, LLC; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

CRC Group seeks an AI Security Engineer Lead to own and advance the security controls for agentic AI across the enterprise. You will build reusable security patterns, partner with AI developers, and ensure secure operation of MCP servers, A2A interactions, and API gateways within an Azure-centric environment.

The role emphasizes strong communication with technical and executive stakeholders, and requires hands-on experience securing AI workloads in Microsoft Azure Foundry and APIM.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Cybersecurity with hands-on engineering and operations.
• Experience developing security patterns for AI agent harnesses and supporting components.
• Hands-on experience securing AI workloads in Microsoft Azure, including Foundry.
• Experience engineering and operating Azure API Management (APIM) with policy authoring.
• Designing and validating security controls for AI agents, MCP servers, and A2A interactions.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access patterns (OAuth2.x, OIDC, Entra ID).
• Familiarity with OWASP Top10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI security function, deliver service offerings, architectures, and a security roadmap.
• Partner with architects, engineers, and developers to embed security into AI solutions.
• Ensure compliance with CRC policy and regulatory obligations (NYDFS, etc.).
• Report current state, risk posture, and progress in maturing AI security.
• Develop and maintain secure design patterns for AI agent harnesses and gateways.
• Define guardrails against prompt injection, tool misuse, and data leakage.
• Secure agents on Microsoft Foundry and third-party harnesses (Anthropic Claude).
• Operate Azure APIM and AI Gateway as policy enforcement for model, agent, MCP, and API traffic.
• Integrate gateway telemetry with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security patterns

Azure Foundry

Azure APIM

AI security controls

OAuth/OIDC

OWASP Top10 for LLM

MITRE ATLAS

NIST AI RMF

Tools

Azure APIM

Microsoft Foundry

Claude Agent SDK

Job description

CRC Group seeks an AI Security Engineer Lead to own and advance the security controls for agentic AI across the enterprise. You will build reusable security patterns, partner with AI developers, and ensure secure operation of MCP servers, A2A interactions, and API gateways within an Azure-centric environment.

The role emphasizes strong communication with technical and executive stakeholders, and requires hands-on experience securing AI workloads in Microsoft Azure Foundry and APIM.