Senior AI & Cloud Security Architect

About the jobAs a Senior AI & Cloud Security Architect at Northbridge Security, you'll help clients design AI solutions that are secure, traceable and compliant from the first architecture sketch. You'll be the adviser whose judgement on AI risk carries weight with both engineers and leadership. AI is moving from pilot to production faster than security models can adapt. Agents get access to tools and systems, models are fed sensitive data, and the EU AI Act is already in force.Northbridge Security works with AI governance, cloud security and DevSecOps for organisations in regulated industries, and we run the same controls we recommend to our clients. What you will doDesign secure reference architectures for AI solutions on Azure, AWS and GCP, from RAG applications to autonomous agentsThreat model LLM and agent systems for prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency and supply chain risksDefine guardrails: identity and isolation for agents, protection of personal data, output validation and audit trailsTranslate the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into concrete technical controls and evidenceRun AI security assessments and architecture reviews, and advise client leadershipHelp shape Northbridge Security's AI security services and internal tooling What we are looking forAt least 10 years in cloud, infrastructure or security architecture, at architect levelPractical experience from recent years of building or securing generative AI solutions, with at least one in or near production, e.g. on Azure AI Foundry/Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI or self hosted modelsSolid knowledge of the AI threat landscape, e.g. OWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsStrong cloud security fundamentals: IAM, Zero Trust, network segmentation, encryption and Infrastructure as CodeAbility to explain technical risk in business terms, in writing and in meetingsFluent in Swedish and English, spoken and written Nice to haveMITRE ATLAS and threat modelling frameworks such as STRIDE or MAESTROExperience from regulated industries: life sciences, medical technology, finance or critical infrastructureExperience with agent frameworks, MCP or AI coding assistants in an enterprise settingCertifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, CISSP, CCSP, IAPP AIGP or ISO/IEC 42001 Why Northbridge SecuritySenior colleagues who build what they recommendA field where practice is being defined now, and you help define itVariety: SMB and enterprise clients at different levels of maturityBenefits and compensation model (80/20, 70/30, 70/25) How to applyThe first interview is with our Head of Business, followed by a technical interview focused on security. We review applications continuously.