AI Systems Security Engineer: Identity & Secrets

EY; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards

Medical coverage

Pension & 401(k)

Paid time off

Hybrid work model

Job summary

EY is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to own the security fabric of EY's AI-native platform, spanning identity, secrets, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. You will drive trust, compliance, and auditable evidence for regulated client contexts, partnering with Enterprise Security, Cloud Platform, and SRE teams.

You will manage workload identity, cryptographic lifecycle, and attestation policy, delivering identity across multi-tenant environments while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Security, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in security engineering, identity/PKI, or trust infrastructure, with hands-on production ownership.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with workload identity (SPIRE/SPIFFE), IAM (Keycloak/Entra ID), and secrets management (OpenBao/Vault).
• Strong grounding in PKI, X.509 certificate lifecycle (cert-manager), key management, and transit encryption.
• Working experience with confidential compute and hardware attestation (TDX, SEV-SNP, SGX, NVIDIA CC, or equivalents) and secure boot (Intel TXT).
• Experience delivering identity and secrets consistently across multi-tenant, multi-environment platforms.
• Proven track record operating under compliance, security, or regulatory constraints with audit-grade evidence requirements.
• Ability to define clean ownership boundaries and consumption contracts with platform, data, and runtime teams.

Responsibilities

• Own workload identity and secrets management across multiple environments.
• Build confidential compute environments with TEEs and secure boot.
• Establish platform-wide identity model for verifiable propagation across telemetry and policy.
• Own cryptographic lifecycle: issuance, rotation, revocation, expiry of certs/keys.
• Enforce attestation policy for nodes, enclaves, and workloads.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security / Cloud Platform / SRE for audit readiness.

Skills

Workload identity & secrets mgmt

PKI & crypto lifecycle

Confidential compute & TEEs

Security architecture & trust

Multi-environment orchestration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Security or related field

Tools

SPIRE/SPIFFE

Keycloak/Entra ID

OpenBao / Vault

cert-manager (X.509)

TDX/SEV-SNP/SGX trusted enclaves

DOCA hardware security

Job description

EY is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to own the security fabric of EY's AI-native platform, spanning identity, secrets, and attestation across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. You will drive trust, compliance, and auditable evidence for regulated client contexts, partnering with Enterprise Security, Cloud Platform, and SRE teams.

You will manage workload identity, cryptographic lifecycle, and attestation policy, delivering identity across multi-tenant environments while