# Principal Security Ops Analyst

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health, a leading life sciences services organization, is seeking a Principal Security Ops Analyst. The successful candidate will lead the implementation and operationalization of enterprise AI security tools and controls across various AI platforms.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Design, deploy, and maintain AI security guardrails, including prompt injection protection, jailbreak detection, and content filtering.

- Develop and maintain standardized AI security baselines, system prompts, security patterns, and reusable guardrail configurations.

- Operationalize AI security technologies, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud AI Services and Zscaler AI Guard.

- 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, and sensitive data leakage.

- 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.

- Partner with AI developers and architects to implement secure-by-design AI patterns.

- Conduct security architecture reviews of AI solutions and external AI integrations.

- Support enterprise AI governance initiatives, including AI inventory, AI asset discovery, and AI risk assessment.

- Develop metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting that demonstrate AI security posture and risk reduction.

- Coordinate with various teams to operationalize AI security controls and response processes.

- Evaluate emerging AI security technologies and tooling to support the evolving AI security roadmap.

**Qualification Requirements**

- 8+ years in cybersecurity, security engineering, cloud security, application security, or security operations.

- 3+ years designing or securing AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM, agent-based, or cloud-native applications.

- Experience with Microsoft Security, Azure AI/Foundry, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Zscaler, CASB, GCP, AWS, and modern security monitoring platforms.

- Deep understanding of prompt injection, jailbreak attacks, LLM security risks, and AI adversarial testing.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

**Preferred**

- Proficiency in a wide range of security tools, such as vulnerability scanning, endpoint protection/EDR, SIEM, SOAR, IPS/IDS, WAF, SASE, perimeter firewall, reverse proxy, defense in depth practices, and malware analysis tools.

- Programming experience in bash, python, or PowerShell.

- Prior experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Security
- Azure AI/Foundry
- Defender for Cloud
- Sentinel
- Zscaler
- CASB
- GCP
- AWS
- AI security
- LLM security
- adversarial testing

### Nice to have
- vulnerability scanning
- endpoint protection/EDR
- SIEM
- SOAR
- IPS/IDS
- WAF
- SASE
- perimeter firewall
- reverse proxy
- defense in depth practices
- malware analysis tools
- bash
- python
- PowerShell

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