{"id":1218362,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-ai-systems-engineer-secure-execution-senior","title":"AI Systems Engineer - Secure Execution - Senior","company":{"id":2859,"name":"Ernst & Young","domain":"ey.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ey-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":106900,"max":176500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":176500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"cert-manager","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Keycloak","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":false},{"name":"PKI","optional":false},{"name":"Vault","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T02:01:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T00:20:34Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Location: Anywhere in Country\nAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nThe opportunity\nWe are seeking AI Systems Engineers to own the security and trust fabric of EY’s AI-native platform, comprising the identity, secrets, cryptographic, and attestation layer that makes agentic AI workloads deployable in highly regulated environments. This role owns the enforcement mechanisms that allow EY to prove every workload is identity-bound, every secret is protected, every node is trusted, and every deployment is attestable and audit-ready.\nThis is the strategic differentiator of the platform. The ability to deploy AI workloads in regulated industries and prove they are secure, economically bounded, and auditable depends on the trust fabric this role builds. It is the technical enforcement layer behind the AI Integrity / Security control authority and much of the platform’s governance capabilities, spanning consistently across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments.\nYour key responsibilities\n Own workload identity and secrets management: SPIRE/ODIS, Keycloak/Entra ID (IAM), OpenBao (secrets store), cert-manager (X.509 lifecycle), PKI issuers/roots, and transit encryption - propagated consistently across every environment and tenant.\n Build confidential compute environments: TEE (TDX/SEV-SNP/SGX/TrustZone/CCA/NVIDIA CC), Intel TXT boot security, and secure DPU architecture (DOCA), so environments are isolated, attestable, and audit-ready.\nEstablish the platform-wide identity model so every workload, agent, and service carries a verifiable, propagated identity that flows through telemetry, cost attribution, and policy enforcement end-to-end.\nOwn the cryptographic lifecycle: issuance, rotation, revocation, and expiry of certificates, keys, and roots, with zero manual, untracked secrets and no long-lived credential sprawl across tenants.\nEnforce attestation policy: which nodes, enclaves, and workloads are trusted, how trust is proven at boot and at runtime, and how attestation evidence is captured for audit.\nPartner on a dotted-line basis with Enterprise Security / Cloud Platform / SRE to ensure independent review, alignment to enterprise trust standards, and audit readiness in regulated client contexts.\nSkills and attributes for success\nDeep expertise in workload identity, secrets management, PKI, and cryptographic lifecycle at production scale across multiple environments.\nStrong understanding of confidential compute, trusted execution environments, hardware roots of trust, and remote attestation.\nA security-first mindset: thinking in terms of provable trust, blast radius, least privilege, and cryptographic attribution rather than perimeter or convenience.\nAbility to encode trust and compliance directly into infrastructure so that security is enforced by the platform, not by manual review.\nComfortable operating across cloud, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments with consistent identity and trust mechanisms.\nStrong communicator able to explain trust, identity, and attestation tradeoffs to engineers, architects, auditors, and leadership.\nOrientation toward auditability and evidence: able to translate regulatory expectations into technical controls and demonstrable proof.\nTo qualify you must have\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Security, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.\n8+ years in security engineering, identity/PKI, or trust infrastructure, with hands-on production ownership.\nDeep, hands-on expertise with workload identity (SPIRE/SPIFFE), IAM (Keycloak/Entra ID), and secrets management (OpenBao/Vault).\nStrong grounding in PKI, X.509 certificate lifecycle (cert-manager), key management, and transit encryption.\nWorking experience with confidential compute and hardware attestation (TDX, SEV-SNP, SGX, NVIDIA CC, or equivalents) and secure boot (Intel TXT).\nExperience delivering identity and secrets consistently across multi-tenant, multi-environment (cloud/on-prem/edge/air-gapped) platforms.\nProven track record operating under compliance, security, or regulatory constraints with audit-grade evidence requirements.\nAbility to define clean ownership boundaries and consumption contracts with platform, data, and runtime teams.\nIdeally, you’ll also have\nFamiliarity with secure DPU architectures (DOCA) and hardware root-of-trust / boot-chain designs.\nExperience integrating identity and attestation into service mesh, policy engines (OPA), and API gateways.\nExposure to AI/ML workloads and the specific trust challenges of confidential AI inference (models/secrets inside enclaves).\nExperience producing attestation and compliance evidence for external auditors or regulators.\nRelevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, cloud security specialties) or demonstrable equivalent depth.\nExposure to regulated industries (financial services, tax, healthcare, risk).\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.\nWe offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $106,900 to $176,500. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $128,400 to $200,600. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.\nJoin us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.\nUnder our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.\nEY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.\nFor those living in California, please click here for additional information.\nEY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.\nEY | Building a better working world\nEY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.\nEnabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.\nEY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.\nEY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.\nEY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. 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