Senior AI Security & Information Protection Engineer

System One; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

System One seeks a Senior Information Protection & AI Security Engineer to advance data protection, AI governance, and insider risk initiatives within a regulated financial services setting. You will implement and optimize Microsoft Purview capabilities, guardrails for AI security, and insider threat controls.

The role focuses on Purview Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk Management, and data classification, including security for Copilot and other generative AI platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity/enterprise security engineering experience.
• 5+ years hands-on Microsoft Purview experience.
• Experience configuring Purview Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk, Classification, and labels.
• Experience implementing AI security and governance for enterprise generative AI platforms.
• Knowledge of GenAI security risks and prompt injection.
• Experience developing insider threat and data exfiltration detection policies.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance ecosystem.
• Experience with Defender, Sentinel, and Graph API.
• Ability to develop security automation using PowerShell, Graph API, or similar.
• Experience creating security dashboards, metrics, and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Support data protection, AI governance, and insider risk initiatives in a regulated financial services environment.
• Configure and continuously improve Microsoft Purview capabilities, AI guardrails, and threat detection controls.
• Work with Purview Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk Management, and data classification tools.
• Implement security and governance controls for Microsoft Copilot and generative AI platforms.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Compliance, and business teams to strengthen information protection.
• Develop security automation, monitoring, and operational documentation using PowerShell, Graph API, KQL, and Sentinel.
• Create security dashboards, metrics, reporting, standards, procedures, and runbooks.

Skills

Microsoft Purview

AI security

Insider risk

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph API

KQL

Microsoft Sentinel

DLP

Security Operations

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Azure

Entra ID

CISSP/CISM/GIAC (certs)

Job description

System One seeks a Senior Information Protection & AI Security Engineer to advance data protection, AI governance, and insider risk initiatives within a regulated financial services setting. You will implement and optimize Microsoft Purview capabilities, guardrails for AI security, and insider threat controls.

The role focuses on Purview Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk Management, and data classification, including security for Copilot and other generative AI platforms.