Lead AI Senior Security Engineer

Job Title: Lead Senior Security Engineer – AI-Driven Security OperationsLocation: Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico
Must-Have SkillsSophos | Pentest | WAF (Cloudflare or any) | Zero Day | Scans (Port53 / Prowler / Trivy / Inspector / Kali GVM) | SAST/DAST (Snyk or any) | AI SecurityWhat You'll DoLead AI-augmented incident response — detection, correlation, root-cause analysis, and remediation trackingOwn and scale AI security sub-agents (vulnerability scanning, threat intel, vendor risk) — tuning, and failure escalationDrive risk-based vulnerability prioritization strategy (SAST/SCA, EASM, container scanning) across teamsTune WAF policies using behavioral analytics & anomaly detection at scaleLead AI-agent risk & governance reviews — prompt injection, authorization gaps, secrets exposure — and own the remediation roadmapChampion DevSecOps maturity — embed AI-assisted security controls across CI/CD pipelinesMentor junior engineers and set best practices for AI-first, automation-first security operationsWhat You Bring6+ years in cloud/IT security, with proven leadership in security engineeringDeep hands-on expertise across all must-have tools listed aboveStrong scripting/automation skills (Python/Bash) and IaC expertise (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation)Solid grounding in compliance frameworks — PCI-DSS, SOC2, SOX, HIPAADemonstrated experience applying AI/ML in cybersecurity workflowsTrack record of leading security teams and mentoring engineersPreferred CertificationsAWS/Azure/GCP Security certification (Associate or Professional level)CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or equivalent advanced security certification