Senior Manager, AI Runtime Security

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers and analysts focused on AI runtime protection and operational AI security controls.
• Define and execute strategy for AI runtime security, including guardrails, behavioral attestation, and rogue agent detection.
• Operationalize AI runtime controls across AI gateways, APIs, and production environments.
• Partner with IT, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to integrate detection, response, containment, and kill‑switch capabilities.
• Build scalable security operations processes to enforce AI runtime protections in real time across deployed AI systems.
• Drive integration of runtime telemetry into enterprise monitoring and incident response workflows.
• Establish security standards and best practices for securing AI‑enabled applications and agentic systems.
• Collaborate across architecture, cloud, and engineering teams to embed AI security controls into enterprise platforms.

• 10+ years of experience securing endpoints, cloud platforms and SaaS environments.
• Deep experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security architectures.
• Experience leading security engineering or cyber operations teams in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of AI systems, AI runtime controls, and modern AI security risks.
• Familiarity with AI guardrails, AI gateways, behavioral monitoring, and runtime enforcement technologies.
• Experience integrating security controls into production platforms and operational workflows.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross‑functional teams.

• Certifications such as: CCSP, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Google Associate Cloud Engineer.
• Experience securing AI/ML platforms, autonomous agents, or generative AI systems.
• Familiarity with real‑time detection and response capabilities for AI‑enabled environments.

• AI runtime protections are consistently enforced across enterprise AI deployments.
• Security controls scale effectively alongside rapidly growing AI and agentic use cases.
• Detection and response capabilities reduce operational and business risk from unsafe or rogue AI behaviors.
• Cross‑functional teams adopt secure‑by‑design AI runtime patterns and operational standards.

• Sponsorship:
  Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.