Hybrid AI Security Architect — Enterprise Threat Guard

AbilityLinks; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company seeks a hands-on AI Security Architect to operationalize its AI security vision across enterprise teams, including architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, data, and applications. You will implement secure AI models, data pipelines, and guardrails for AI agents deployed company-wide.

The role requires translating security requirements into reliable, scalable controls, supporting multi-cloud environments, and mentoring teams while advancing threat modeling, incident response,

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of AI and machine learning concepts, model architectures, training and inference pipelines.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting enterprise solutions on cloud data/AI platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Familiarity with securing LLMs, generative models, and agentic workflows.
• Ability to translate security requirements into reliable operational controls.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security controls in AI development and deployment processes.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain guardrails for AI agents across departments.
• Architect secure deployment environments for AI platforms, including sandboxing, access control, and secrets management.
• Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for AI systems and translate findings into prioritized controls.
• Monitor, respond to, and audit security incidents related to AI systems.

Skills

AI/ML security concepts

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Communication skills

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure AI Services

Cloud security tools

Job description

Southern Company seeks a hands-on AI Security Architect to operationalize its AI security vision across enterprise teams, including architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, data, and applications. You will implement secure AI models, data pipelines, and guardrails for AI agents deployed company-wide.

The role requires translating security requirements into reliable, scalable controls, supporting multi-cloud environments, and mentoring teams while advancing threat modeling, incident response,