Principal Security Ops Analyst

Description Principal Security Ops Analyst

Job Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and operationalization of enterprise AI security tools and controls across Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Foundry, Gemini Enterprise, Claude, AWS Bedrock, and other sanctioned AI platforms.
• Design, deploy, and maintain AI security guardrails including prompt injection protection, jailbreak detection, content filtering, sensitive-data protection, and runtime safety controls.
• Develop and maintain standardized AI security baselines, system prompts, security patterns, and reusable guardrail configurations for enterprise use cases.
• Operationalize AI security technologies including Microsoft Defender for Cloud AI Services, Model Armor, Zscaler AI Guard, CASB controls, API gateway protections, and AI telemetry integrations.
• Build and mature AI threat detection and response capabilities by integrating AI security telemetry into Sentinel and Cyber Threat Defense workflows.
• Develop AI-specific security monitoring use cases, detection logic, alerting strategies, investigation runbooks, and containment procedures.
• Establish and execute a repeatable AI red teaming program focused on prompt injection, jailbreak attacks, sensitive data leakage, unsafe outputs, agent misuse, model abuse, and guardrail bypass testing.
• Design red team methodologies, testing frameworks, playbooks, rules of engagement, and evidence collection procedures for AI systems and agents.
• Execute adversarial testing against AI models, agents, copilots, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, and AI-enabled applications prior to production deployment.
• Assess AI platforms and applications against OWASP LLM Top 10, CSA AI Controls, NIST AI RMF, and internal security standards.
• Analyze AI-related findings, identify root causes, prioritize risk, and provide actionable remediation guidance to engineering and product teams.
• Partner with AI developers and architects to implement secure-by-design AI patterns including pre-processing and post-processing controls, safety checkpoints, MCP governance, and tool-access restrictions.
• Conduct security architecture reviews of AI solutions, agents, AI-assisted workflows, and external AI integrations.
• Support enterprise AI governance initiatives including AI inventory, AI asset discovery, AI risk assessment, and non-human identity governance initiatives.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting that demonstrate AI security posture, AI risk reduction, guardrail effectiveness, and red team outcomes.
• Coordinate with Cyber Threat Defense, Security Operations, Cloud Operations, Enterprise Architecture, AI Governance, and application teams to operationalize AI security controls and response processes.
• Evaluate emerging AI security technologies, AI gateways, AI firewalls, AI posture management solutions, and AI security tooling to support the evolving AI security roadmap.
• Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, and process documentation.
• Ensure consistency across teams and shifts in how security tasks are performed.
• Partner with SOC analysts, cyber threat intelligence incident response, vulnerability managers, network engineers and others to understand pain points and requirements.
• Work within Tech Solutions, DevOps, and compliance teams to align security processes with broader organizational goals.
• Mentor and coach team members on best practices and process adherence.

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