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About the Role
This role is critical for supporting enterprise-wide data protection and governance initiatives, leveraging Microsoft 365 platforms. You will safeguard sensitive data, enable secure collaboration, and support emerging AI technologies like Copilot by ensuring proper data classification and protection standards. This work is highly visible and directly impacts how the organization securely manages and scales its data environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operationalize secure agentic AI capabilities in risk & security operations
- Build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered security agents to augment detection, investigation, and response workflows
- Identify high-value use cases where AI agents can accelerate analyst productivity and improve outcomes
- Continuously validate agent performance, accuracy, and reliability in real-world operations
- Ensure responsible and secure use of AI across risk & security operations
- Enforce strong security controls for enterprise AI platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry)
- Mitigate AI-specific risks including data leakage, prompt injection, oversharing, and unauthorized access
- Establish evaluation practices for agent accuracy, hallucination risk, false positives/false negatives, failure modes, explainability, audit logging, and measurable operational impact
- Ensure human-in-the-loop oversight to include analysts challenge, refine, and retrain AI-driven outcomes
- Implement and manage data protection controls for AI and enterprise data
- Deploy and optimize Microsoft Purview capabilities (DLP, Information Protection, Insider Risk) across M365 and AI platforms
- Implement DLP controls for AI interactions and outputs to prevent sensitive data exposure
- Monitor and tune data protection policies to meet regulatory and business requirements
- Secure AI agents, automation, and data flows
- Define and enforce access controls, data handling policies, and auditability for AI agents and automated workflows
- Ensure all AI-driven processes align with Zero Trust and least privilege principles
- Evaluate and onboard new AI tools and agents with a security-first approach
- Operational monitoring, detection, and response
- Monitor AI platform activity and data usage to detect anomalies, misuse, or policy violations
- Support incident response and investigations involving AI systems and data exposure scenarios
- Integrate AI agent workflows directly with SIEM/XDR platforms to allow autonomous context enrichment and preliminary incident triage
- Support enterprise rollout of AI governance and data security programs
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field (Master’s preferred), OR equivalent experience leading enterprise-scale security engineering initiatives
- 5+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, data protection, or security engineering
- Proven experience designing and securing enterprise AI platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry
- Experience with governance, data grounding controls, prompt injection protections, and AI risk management
- Experience with development or oversight of security controls for AI-driven workflows and autonomous/agent-based systems
- Hands-on expertise with Microsoft security and compliance ecosystems, including Microsoft Purview (end-to-end deployment, governance, and optimization)
- Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra ID security architecture
- Experience with collaboration platforms (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams) with a strong focus on data protection and insider risk
- Proven expertise in Data Security and Protection, including Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategy, engineering, and tuning at scale
- Experience with data classification, sensitivity labeling, and lifecycle management
- Experience with Insider Risk Management and Information Protection programs
- Demonstrated ability to architect and lead enterprise security solutions, including defining strategy, roadmaps, and reference architectures
- Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across Security, IT, Legal, and Business teams
- Ability to act as a technical authority and escalation point for complex security challenges
- Strong development and automation capabilities, including proficiency in Python, PowerShell, TypeScript or similar languages
- Experience with secure API integration; Microsoft Graph and security platform APIs; CI/CD practices; test automation
- Experience deploying AI-enabled workflows using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, or comparable cloud-native services
- Experience building automation pipelines for detection, response, and data governance workflows
- Experience with security analytics and telemetry, including interpreting logs and signals from Microsoft 365, Azure, endpoints, and AI systems
- Experience supporting detection engineering and threat-informed defense strategies
- Ability to lead in complex, ambiguous environments, including rapidly assessing risk and prioritizing high-impact outcomes
- Ability to drive technical decision-making with incomplete information
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and elevate overall team capability
Skills
- Microsoft Copilot
- Copilot Studio
- Azure AI Foundry
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft 365
- Azure
- Entra ID
- Exchange
- SharePoint
- OneDrive
- Teams
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Python
- PowerShell
- TypeScript
- Microsoft Graph
- CI/CD
- Azure Functions
- Logic Apps
- SIEM
- XDR
- Prompt engineering
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Location
- United States of America
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, data protection, or security engineering
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field (Master’s preferred), OR equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $90K - $110K
Benefits
- Competitive target incentive compensation
- Medical plans for you and your family
- Health and wellness programs
- Retirement plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid vacation
About the Company
- AXIS Capital is a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.
- We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders.
- We proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.
- As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.
- At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people.
- We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves.
- This means that we bring our whole selves to work.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.