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# Lead AI Gateway Security Engineer

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** McLean, VA, 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 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6339fc03-6151-4072-afbe-a8de0e81a183

## About the Role

* 1 0+ years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity operations, security engineering, or vulnerability management
 * Experience deploying, configuring, and administering AI 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 within federal environments
 * Experience building high availability architectures to support enterprise scale deployments
 * Ability to implement, operationalize, and maintain enterprise cloud security policies and 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. Partners with cloud engineering, security operations, compliance, DevSecOps, application, and system-owner teams to operationalize findings, drive remediation to closure, and mentor technical team members.


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