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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer-IAM​/Cloud Security; AI Agent security

Job in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, 85003, USA
Listing for: American Express
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-13
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Cybersecurity Engineer-IAM And/ OR Cloud Security (AI Agent security)

A Senior Cyber Security Engineer for Agentic AI IAM, and Secrets Management is responsible for securing enterprise identities, AI agents, machine identities, and secrets across hybrid environments including on-premises infrastructure and public cloud platforms.

Vision
  • Build a modern, scalable, and resilient Agentic AI IAM and secrets management ecosystem across hybrid cloud environments.
  • Enable secure adoption of AI agents, automation platforms, and machine identities through policy-driven governance.
  • Drive Enterprise-Wide Risk Reduction Initiatives for Application Secrets Management
    • Elimination of Hardcoded Secrets
    • Centralized Enterprise Secrets Vault Adoption
    • Automated Secrets Rotation
    • Machine Identity and Workload Identity Modernization
    • CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  Secrets Security
    • Cloud-Native Secrets Governance
    • Enterprise Secrets Discovery and Inventory
    • Secrets Access Monitoring and Behavioral Analytics
    • Zero Trust Application Authentication
    • Third-Party and Vendor Secrets Governance
    • AI Agent and Autonomous Workflow Secrets Security
  • Deliver centralized visibility, compliance, and operational excellence for identities and access management including sustained controls and metrics delivery
Functional Requirements / Core Technical Capabilities
  • Strong experience in Agentic AI IAM architecture, identity governance, secrets management, security engineering, and enterprise IAM program delivery.
  • Strong expertise in requirement gathering, current-state assessments, gap analyses, control evaluations, and target-state Agentic AI IAM security architecture design.
  • Experience securing cloud-native and hybrid environments.
  • Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and machine identity security.
  • Experience implementing AI/Agentic security controls and secure automation frameworks.
Platform Experience
  • Microsoft Entra  / Okta
  • Hashi Corp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Cloud Secrets Manager
  • AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
  • Kubernetes and container security platforms
  • Terraform, CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops  tooling
Responsibilities Operational Responsibilities
  • Conduct Agentic AI IAM requirement analyses, architecture reviews, and security gap assessments across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, AI services, and infrastructure environments.
  • Develop automation for access management and secrets lifecycle operations.
  • Develop and implement security controls for AI agents, machine identities, APIs, workloads, and autonomous workflows.
  • Monitor and remediate IAM and secrets-related risks.
  • Build dashboards, reporting, and operational metrics.
IAM and Access Governance
  • Lead enterprise Agentic AI IAM program execution across multiple work streams.
  • Establish program milestones, sprint objectives, and delivery timelines.
  • Track program risks, issues, blockers, and remediation activities.
  • Ensure successful onboarding of applications, platforms, and cloud services into IAM controls.
  • Drive operationalization and transition to support teams.
Agentic and Machine Identity Security
  • Establish security controls for AI agents, autonomous workflows, bots, and machine identities.
  • Define policy-based authorization models for AI-driven systems.
  • Secure API, workload, and machine-to-machine authentication.
  • Monitor AI agent activities and machine identity risks.
Cloud and Hybrid Security
  • Secure IAM controls across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments.
  • Standardize identity governance across multi-cloud ecosystems.
  • Implement workload identity federation and cloud-native security controls.
Security Operations and Compliance
  • Monitor identity threats, privilege misuse, and secrets exposure.
  • Support incident response and remediation activities.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory frameworks.
  • Produce audit evidence and governance reporting.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Cyber security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in IAM, cloud security, or cyber security engineering.
  • Strong understanding of AI agent security, machine identities, and secure automation.
  • Experience managing hybrid cloud IAM and secrets management programs.
  • Relevant certifications preferred:
    • CISSP
    • CISM
    • CCSP

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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