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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Gateway Security Engineer, Lead - **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $112,800.0 - $257,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, CompTIA Security+, Cyber Security, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, OAuth, Software Vulnerability Management, Policy as Code, Scripting, System Availability, Large Language Models, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Devsecops, Api Management - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://justjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18109237?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18109237%2FAi-Gateway-Security-Engineer-Lead-D-C-Washington ## About the Role * 10+ years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity operations, security engineering, or vulnerability management * Experience deploying, configuring, and administeringAI security measures such as AI gateways and guardrails in large, complex, and multi-cloud environments * Experience with API integrations and machine to machine authentication and authorization such as API keys and OAuth * Experience with AI application and agent architectures or protocols, including LLM inference, MCP, and A2A * Experience supporting security tooling withinfederal environments * Experience building high availability architectures to support enterprise scale deployments * Ability to implement, operationalize, and maintainenterprise cloud security policiesand governance controls * Ability to automate tooling and workflows via APIs, Terraform, Kubernetes, or scripting * Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements * Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have: * Experience with Kong AI Gateway * Experience deploying and managing kubernetes infrastructure * Experience using CI/CD to manage and deploy policy as code * Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) * Experience coding custom plugins for AI Gateways * Kong Certifications such as Kong Gateway Certified Associate Certification * Cloud security Certification such as CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer ## Description Designs, deploys, integrates, and maintains enterprise AI gateway capabilities across complex, multi-cloud and federal environments. Leads implementation of AI security controls, including guardrails, policy enforcement, secure API integrations, and machine-to-machine authentication supporting LLM inference and agent-based architectures. Works without considerable direction and mentors and may supervise team members. Develops scalable, highly available security architectures and automates policy-as-code, remediation workflows, and governance controls using Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, APIs, scripting, and OPA. Leads continuous improvement of security workflows, playbooks, escalation paths, service-level expectations, and governance processes supporting Wiz and cloud security tools. 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