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Cyber Security Engineer - Infrastructure & AI Platform Security

Security Engineering & ArchitectureUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeKarlsruhe, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Several years of hands-on experience in infrastructure or platform security, ideally at a hosting provider, cloud provider, telco, or comparably large-scale multi-tenant environment.
  • Deep practical knowledge of Linux, virtualization and container platforms, networking, and the security properties of multi-tenant infrastructure.
  • Strong background in identity and access, including privileged access, machine and workload identity, secrets management, authorization models, and infrastructure-as-code security.
  • Experience designing and enforcing security standards in a heterogeneous, partly legacy landscape, and getting them adopted by teams the candidate does not manage.
  • Working knowledge of how large language model and agent systems are built and operated, and of their specific risks, including prompt injection through untrusted data, over-scoped tool access, data exposure via retrieval, unlogged autonomous action, and model and provider dependency.
  • Ability to make and defend risk-based decisions, including blocking a deployment with a clear rationale, and to explain technical risk to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Fluent English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain security architecture standards and hardening baselines for provider-side infrastructure, including virtualization and container platforms, control planes and provisioning systems, DNS, mail infrastructure, and backup and recovery systems.
  • Assess and strengthen tenant isolation across shared hosting, virtualization, and container layers, and drive remediation with the responsible platform teams.
  • Review infrastructure designs and major changes for security impact, and act as an escalation point for infrastructure security questions from platform, cloud, and brand engineering teams.
  • Reduce blast radius on critical access paths, including privileged access to customer-facing infrastructure, administrative segmentation, secrets handling, and recovery integrity, by translating these into workable per-brand implementation plans across heterogeneous platforms.
  • Support Cyber Defense, Vulnerability Management, and IT Emergency Management with infrastructure expertise during incidents and post-incident hardening.
  • Own security architecture and baseline standards for internally operated AI platforms, including model gateways and self-hosted models, agent frameworks, assistant integrations, connectors, and retrieval pipelines over internal data.
  • Define and enforce agent identification, authentication, and authorization, including non-human identity handling, credential and token management, least-privilege tool and system access, and human-in-the-loop controls for autonomous action.
  • Establish what data internal AI systems may access and index, and ensure agent activity is logged, attributable, and reviewable to the standards required by regulatory and certification obligations.
  • Run pre-deployment security reviews for new internal AI platforms and agent use cases, and monitor where unsanctioned AI usage is emerging.
  • Advise security functions and internal engineering teams on adopting AI safely, including the guardrails needed to make adoption defensible.
  • Set security standards, pressure-test designs, and work directly with platform and engineering teams across company brands to implement them.

Desired Qualifications

  • German language ability is a strong advantage given the regulatory and public-sector environment.
  • Hands-on experience deploying or securing internal AI platforms, agent frameworks, or tool-calling integrations in production.
  • Familiarity with NIS2, BSIG, or ISO 27001.
  • Background in DNS, e-mail infrastructure, or abuse-adjacent platform security.
  • Experience in a multi-brand or post-acquisition environment where the same control must be implemented in several different ways.
  • A security engineering or development background, including automation, tooling, or scripting.

About the Company

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Montabaur, Germany
Founded
1988

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