{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e37d0d0490092260bce652ce","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e37d0d0490092260bce652ce","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e37d0d0490092260bce652ce","title":"AI SecOps Engineer","description":"About the Role\nNelnet is seeking an AI SecOps Engineer to own the security and compliance posture of our Enterprise AI program. Reporting to the IT Director of AI Delivery, this role is the technical bridge between AI governance policy and platform implementation, embedded in Shared Services and partnered closely with our Cyber Security Group (CSG).\n\nWhat You Will Own\n\nCSG Partnership: Own the working relationship with CSG on data residency, PII handling, access governance, and model security controls. Translate policy into guardrails the delivery team and citizen developers can act on.\n\nSecurity Tooling & Automation: Build and maintain security tooling, guardrail enforcement, and policy-as-code integrations across Enterprise AI platforms. Reduce manual review through automation where possible.\n\nReference Implementations: Develop reusable security components and patterns that delivery teams and citizen developers can drop into Agent builds — making the secure path the easy path.\n\nSecurity Observability: Instrument AI platforms to detect anomalous behavior, access patterns, and policy violations. Build the detection layer, not just consume it.\n\nWhat You Will Thrive Here If\n\nYou see security as an engineering discipline, not a compliance checkbox.\n\nYou are energized by building systems that make compliance easier to do right than to skip.\n\nYou default to \"here's how we do this safely\" rather than just \"no\".\n\nYou can hold a technical conversation with a developer and a risk conversation with a compliance stakeholder in the same day.\n\nWhat You Bringing\nRequired\n\n1–2 years hands‑on experience applying security and compliance controls to AI or ML systems.\n\nFamiliarity with LLM‑specific risks: prompt injection, data leakage, model access control, output filtering.\n\nExperience defining architecture standards or technical guardrails.\n\nFamiliarity with data residency requirements, PII handling, and access governance in enterprise environments.\n\nAbility to translate security requirements into developer‑facing guidance.\n\nDemonstrated ability to build and implement solutions directly, not just document or advise.\n\nPreferred\n\n2–4 years of industry experience.\n\nFamiliarity with Anthropic's enterprise security model and data residency options.\n\nCloud security background (AWS/Azure) applied to AI workloads.\n\nExperience with SOC I/II, FedRAMP, ISO 42001/42005, or NIST AI RMF.\n\nExperience working in SIEM or log aggregation platforms (e.g., Sentinel, Splunk, Google SecOps) to investigate AI‑related signals and anomalies.\n\nRelevant certifications: CISSP, CCSP, or AI‑specific security credentials.\n\nPay range for this role is $100,000 - $150,000 depending on experience.\n\nOur benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance‑based incentive pay, short‑ and long‑term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK (http://nelnetinc.com/careers/benefits/).\n\nNelnet is committed to providing a welcoming and respectful workplace where all associates have the opportunity to succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion/creed, national origin, gender, sex, marital status, age, disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. 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Reporting to the IT Director of AI Delivery, this role is the technical bridge between AI governance policy and platform implementation, embedded in Shared Services and partnered closely with our Cyber Security Group (CSG).\n\nWhat You Will Own\n\nCSG Partnership: Own the working relationship with CSG on data residency, PII handling, access governance, and model security controls. Translate policy into guardrails the delivery team and citizen developers can act on.\n\nSecurity Tooling & Automation: Build and maintain security tooling, guardrail enforcement, and policy-as-code integrations across Enterprise AI platforms. Reduce manual review through automation where possible.\n\nReference Implementations: Develop reusable security components and patterns that delivery teams and citizen developers can drop into Agent builds — making the secure path the easy path.\n\nSecurity Observability: Instrument AI platforms to detect anomalous behavior, access patterns, and policy violations. 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Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK (http://nelnetinc.com/careers/benefits/).\n\nNelnet is committed to providing a welcoming and respectful workplace where all associates have the opportunity to succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion/creed, national origin, gender, sex, marital status, age, disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. 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