Senior Manager, Cloud & AI Security Leadership

First Citizens Bank; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 145,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks a seasoned technical people leader to build and lead our Cloud Security and AI Security functions and the engineering team. The role defines strategy, drives execution, and ensures strong security outcomes across AWS, Azure, and AI/ML platforms at scale.

The successful candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and partners with engineering, data science, and platform teams to enable secure innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Security or related field (or equivalent) with required experience.
• 5+ years leading technical security teams.
• Deep hands-on experience securing AWS and Azure environments at enterprise scale.
• Knowledge of Cloud IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, and logging.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Proven experience securing AI/ML systems or leading security for data science and AI platforms.
• Experience with cloud security tooling, posture management and controls development.
• Strong threat modeling, risk management, and secure-architecture principles.
• Excellent communication skills to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Security Strategy - develop security strategy, roadmaps, and direction for secure innovation.
• Program Management - manage security teams and technologies, resolve issues and ensure compliance.
• Managerial Functions - set policies, coach staff, and manage performance and budgets if applicable.
• Security Resource - provide security standards, training, and mentorship to protect assets.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security

AWS & Azure security

DevSecOps

Threat modeling

Communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Security or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

CI/CD security tooling

Security tooling (cloud)

Job description

First Citizens Bank seeks a seasoned technical people leader to build and lead our Cloud Security and AI Security functions and the engineering team. The role defines strategy, drives execution, and ensures strong security outcomes across AWS, Azure, and AI/ML platforms at scale.

The successful candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and partners with engineering, data science, and platform teams to enable secure innovation.