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.