Manager- Application & AI Security

About the role

You will keep the organization’s applications, cloud, and AI usage governed and secure-by-default, ensuring that delivery speed never outruns risk review. You will hold the central AI-governance mandate and own the DevSecOps golden pipelines, application security testing, and MCP/AI-agent runtime security, embedding guardrails as code and making safe AI adoption the default.

Responsibilities

• Own the secure software development lifecycle per NIST SSDF (SP 800-218) and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.8.25–A.8.31, including application security reviews for major releases and PaaS/SaaS application posture.
• Own Contact Center tooling Security guardrails including the agent flows, member workflows and overall platform and call center security guardrails for member experience.
• Own CI/CD golden-pipeline guardrails and pipeline/artifact integrity (SLSA), run pipeline monitoring, and manage application/pipeline PIM role assignments through the platform operated by Identity.
• Run application security testing — API security, aligned to OWASP ASVS and the OWASP Top 10 / API Security Top 10 (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.8.29).
• Own container/Kubernetes and IaC security scanning, threat modeling (OWASP SAMM), secure-code training, and SBOM generation for internally built applications (NIST SSDF; NTIA minimum elements).
• Hold the central AI-governance mandate — LLM/Copilot usage policy, local/public model governance, and data-leakage & shadow-AI controls — implementing NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 technical controls with GRC.
• Own the AI/model inventory and AI-BOM and the model registry and approval workflow.
• Conduct prompt-injection / jailbreak testing and LLM red-teaming (OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications; MITRE ATLAS).
• Secure MCP and AI-agent runtimes: per-tool-call authorization, guardrails, and containment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or a minimum of 7 years in security.
• 5+ years in application security and/or DevSecOps, including team leadership.
• Hands-on experience building security into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins) as guardrails-as-code.
• Strong experience with application security testing across SAST, DAST, SCA/open-source, secrets scanning, and API security (e.g., Checkmarx, Veracode, Snyk).
• Comprehensive knowledge of API security architecture and standards such as OAuth2, OWASP, and CIS.
• Experience securing containers/Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code, threat modeling, and generating SBOMs.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security: usage governance, prompt-injection and jailbreak testing, LLM red-teaming, and MCP/AI-agent runtime controls.
• Ability to translate complex technology issues into language a wide range of audiences can understand.
• CISSP or CCNP-Security required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CSSLP, CCSP, or CISM preferred.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Partial Remote

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address).