Senior AI Gateway Security Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean (VA)

On-site

USD 113,000 - 257,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI Gateway Security Engineer, Lead, to design and secure AI gateway capabilities across diverse multi-cloud and federal environments. You will mentor team members, drive secure API integrations, and advance governance and automation using Kubernetes, Terraform, and policy-as-code.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership with deep expertise in cloud security, AI/ML integration, and secure architecture.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity operations, security engineering, or vulnerability management.
  • Experience deploying AI security measures such as AI gateways and guardrails in large multi-cloud environments.
  • Experience with API integrations and machine-to-machine authentication and authorization (OAuth).
  • Experience with AI application/agent architectures including LLM inference, MCP, and A2A.

Responsibilities

  • Designs, deploys, integrates, and maintains enterprise AI gateway capabilities across multi-cloud and federal environments.
  • Leads implementation of AI security controls, guardrails, policy enforcement, secure API integrations, and m2m authentication for LLM inference and agent architectures.
  • Automates policy-as-code, remediation workflows, and governance using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, APIs, scripting, and OPA.

Skills

Cloud security
Security engineering
AI gateways
API security
Kubernetes
Terraform
CI/CD
Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kong AI Gateway
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Kubernetes
Terraform
CI/CD tooling

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an AI Gateway Security Engineer, Lead, to design and secure AI gateway capabilities across diverse multi-cloud and federal environments. You will mentor team members, drive secure API integrations, and advance governance and automation using Kubernetes, Terraform, and policy-as-code.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership with deep expertise in cloud security, AI/ML integration, and secure architecture.

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