Platform Security Engineer for Agentic AI & Cloud

National Black MBA Association; United States; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Holidays

Pension plan

401(k) with match

Business casual attire

Job summary

Nationwide Technology is seeking a Cyber Operations Specialist to build and operate the secure platform that hosts agentic AI solutions in production. You will own environments, deployment automation, runtime controls, identity patterns, observability, and service reliability at enterprise scale.

You will partner with solution engineers and cyber leaders to ensure AI services are deployable, governable, and secure, with strong focus on cloud platforms, security controls, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud and platform engineering skills.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Harness NextGen), artifact management, and runtime hosting.
• Strong knowledge of identity, access control, secrets handling, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability stacks including logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.
• Experience with release controls, rollback patterns, and incident response.
• Working knowledge of container/image lifecycle, policy enforcement, and software supply chain security.
• Familiarity with AI/agent workloads, especially their runtime, cost, and monitoring concerns.
• Ability to standardize platform patterns that can be reused across multiple solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Security Operations experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain secure, repeatable runtime environments for agentic solutions.
• Own deployment pipelines, release guardrails, and artifact promotion practices.
• Implement and operate observability, alerting, health checks, and operational dashboards.
• Enforce identity, access, policy, and runtime security controls.
• Support feature flagging, kill-switch patterns, rollback, and safe recovery mechanisms.
• Monitor cost, performance, reliability, and capacity for production services.
• Lead incident response for platform or runtime issues and partner on joint triage for solution issues.
• Continuously improve platform standards, reusable capabilities, and operational maturity.

Skills

Cloud engineering

IaC

CI/CD

Identity & access security

Observability

Release controls

Container lifecycle

AI workloads

Platform standardization

Communication skills

Security operations

Education

Cyber security/CS degree

Graduate studies in cyber security/CS

Tools

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Harness NextGen

Artifact management

Job description

Nationwide Technology is seeking a Cyber Operations Specialist to build and operate the secure platform that hosts agentic AI solutions in production. You will own environments, deployment automation, runtime controls, identity patterns, observability, and service reliability at enterprise scale.

You will partner with solution engineers and cyber leaders to ensure AI services are deployable, governable, and secure, with strong focus on cloud platforms, security controls, and incident response.