Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First Citizens Wealth is seeking a seasoned technical people leader to build and lead their Cloud Security and AI Security functions. This role involves defining strategy, driving execution, and ensuring strong security outcomes across AWS, Azure, and emerging AI/ML platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the cloud security strategy across AWS and Azure, aligned with enterprise risk appetite and business objectives
- Lead the design and implementation of:
- Secure cloud architectures (landing zones, identity, network segmentation)
- Cloud-native security controls (IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring)
- CSPM, CIEM, and CWPP solutions
- Partner with cloud platform and application teams to embed security-by-design in infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
- Drive remediation of cloud security findings and reduce systemic risk at scale
- Establish and lead the AI Security function, covering GenAI, ML platforms, and AI-enabled products
- Define security standards for:
- Model training, deployment, and lifecycle management
- Data protection, privacy, and integrity in AI pipelines
- Secure use of third-party and foundation models
- Address emerging AI threats including:
- Model poisoning, prompt injection, data leakage, and misuse
- Partner with Data Science, AI Platform, Legal, and Privacy teams to enable compliant and responsible AI adoption
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of cloud and AI security engineers
- Set clear goals, career paths, and performance expectations for team members
- Manage budgets, tooling investments, and vendor relationships
- Define metrics and dashboards to measure security posture, maturity, and risk reduction
- Translate complex technical risks into clear executive-level insights
- Contribute to cloud and AI risk assessments, threat modeling, and security reviews
- Ensure alignment with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices
- Act as a trusted security advisor to engineering, product, and architecture leaders
- Influence without friction, balancing security requirements with speed and innovation
- Represent Cloud & AI Security in executive forums and architecture reviews
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Information Security or Technology OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Information Security or Technology
- 5+ years leading technical security teams
- Deep hands-on experience securing AWS and Azure environments at enterprise scale
- Strong knowledge of Cloud IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, and logging
- DevSecOps, CI/CD security, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
- Proven experience securing AI/ML systems or leading security for data science and AI platforms
- Experience with cloud security tooling, posture management and controls development
- Strong understanding of threat modeling, risk management, and secure architecture principles
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders
- Experience securing GenAI platforms, LLMs, or AI-enabled applications
- Certifications such as: AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer, CISSP, CCSP, or similar
- Experience in regulated environments (financial services, healthcare, or technology at scale)
- Background in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE
Benefits
- Variable incentives
- Bonuses
- Benefits
- Other awards as outlined in the offer of employment
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates
Company Overview
First Citizens Wealth offers a full range of financial planning, asset management, private banking, brokerage, investment advisory, insurance and trust services to individuals and institutional clients. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.firstcitizens.com/wealth.