Senior Cloud & Platform Security Engineer - AI Pen Testing

NTT Data Americas, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 76,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Americas, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Security Engineer to lead an AI-powered penetration testing platform in Irving, TX. You will architect and deploy cloud-native infrastructure across AWS/GCP, implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and secure integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and vulnerability-management tools.

You will collaborate with Red Team and Security stakeholders to ensure compliant, scalable operations and manage platform upgrades, backups, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in platform/cloud engineering, security engineering, or related field.
• Experience delivering and operating complex vendor-hosted or hybrid platforms.
• Deep hands-on cloud experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with compute, networking, IAM, and containers.
• Experience with VPCs, PrivateLink, VPNs, firewalls.
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Docker and Kubernetes expertise, including EKS/GKE.
• Lifecycle management of third-party platforms with certification and integrations.
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end engineering, build, deployment and operation of an AI-powered penetration testing platform.
• Provision infrastructure across cloud and on-prem, with security controls and connectivity.
• Own platform certification, security assessments, and risk approvals.
• Develop architecture diagrams, runbooks, and certification evidence.
• Interface with third-party vendors during implementation, upgrades, and operations.
• Design integrations between the platform and SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management, ticketing and reporting tools.
• Develop REST APIs, webhooks, and data integrations for findings ingestion and remediation workflows.
• Ensure compliance with security, networking, data governance standards.
• Manage cloud-native infra on AWS and/or GCP, including IAM and containers.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines; deploy containerized components with Docker/Kubernetes.
• Enforce network segmentation, private connectivity, and least-privilege IAM.
• Coordinate platform upgrades, patches, and change-management processes.
• Maintain backup, resiliency, and business-continuity capabilities.
• Collaborate with Red Team and Vulnerability Management to optimize AI-powered testing capabilities.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Security engineering

CI/CD pipelines

APIs & integrations

Terraform / CloudFormation

Docker & Kubernetes

AWS / GCP / private cloud

Datadog / CloudWatch

IaC tooling (GitHub Actions / Jenkins)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS / GKE

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

NTT DATA Americas, Inc. seeks a Senior Platform Security Engineer to lead an AI-powered penetration testing platform in Irving, TX. You will architect and deploy cloud-native infrastructure across AWS/GCP, implement IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and secure integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and vulnerability-management tools.

You will collaborate with Red Team and Security stakeholders to ensure compliant, scalable operations and manage platform upgrades, backups, and runbooks.