Job Summary:
NVIDIA has been a leader in computer graphics and AI innovation for over 25 years. They are seeking a Senior Security Architect to secure high-performance computing environments and AI cluster systems, focusing on designing and implementing security measures to protect critical infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Build and enforce security controls, systems, and policies for cluster infrastructure of new NVIDIA hardware.
• Identify, assess, and reduce cybersecurity risks; report major risks clearly to leadership.
• Develop and lead incident response and disaster recovery plans.
• Investigate security incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
• Ensure systems meet IT, legal, regulatory, and information security standards.
• Improve security governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
• Train peers and users on practical security standard methodologies.
• Work with infrastructure, networking, storage, OS, firmware, and application teams to harden systems.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Experience securing large-scale Linux infrastructure.
• Proven understanding of risk management, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and access control.
• Experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and breach handling.
• Knowledge of compliance, governance, and data protection requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and leadership audiences.
• Experience in programming secure computing environments, with proficiency in C/C++.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience with 8+ yrs of industry experience.
• Experience with system level threat modeling, risk management frameworks and risk mitigation techniques.
• Experience with compute and networking systems security architecture and engineering.
• Experience in securing AI agents using sandboxing technologies and AI-based threat detection (e.g. Mythos).
Preferred:
• Experience with modern authentication and identity frameworks such as OAuth 2.1, OIDC, Kerberos, FIDO2/WebAuthn.
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID, including cross-realm trusts and identity federation (SCIMv2)
• Experience managing centralized Linux identity (FreeIPA/RHEL IdM/SSSD), including PKI lifecycle management and Host-Based Access Control.
• Linux kernel hardening (SELinux/AppArmor) and observability (eBPF).
• Developing secure software in Rust, prioritizing memory safety.
• Experience hardening HPC schedulers and storage, Slurm alongside parallel filesystems like Lustre and NFS.
• Experience securing containerized workloads (Docker, Enroot, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of high-speed fabric security like InfiniBand PKeys/MKeys.
• Zero Trust, ZTNA, VRFs, VLANs, performance-optimized firewalls.
• Use of advanced vulnerability management and supply chain mitigation (CVSS 4.0, SBOM).
Company:
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI. Founded in 1993, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.