about searce Searce is an AI outcome engineering company and a modern technology consultancy that helps enterprises futurify their business with AI, cloud and data. Founded in 2004, we are 1,300+ Searcians across 12 countries, with deep business process expertise, a Google Cloud Global MSP status and compliance credentials including PCI DSS and ISO 27001. We solve with our proprietary evlos™ problem-solving methodology: no bureaucratic fluff, working prototypes fast, and production scale that holds. about ATRE ATRE is Searce's AI Trust & Resilience Engineering practice: the managed-service team that keeps customers' cloud and AI estates secure, reliable and resilient 24x7. We are building it AI-first. Every engineer is expected to use AI tools and AIOps to raise efficiency, cut toil and shorten recovery time. role overview As a Lead Engineer you secure autonomous AI agents on GCP across the platform, identity, communication and audit layers. You own the low-level designs and build the controls yourself.
what you'll do
Platform hardening: Create and review low-level designs (LLDs) covering VPC-SC, CMEK and network perimeter isolation. AI guardrails: Configure Model Armor and defend against prompt injection, data exfiltration and model manipulation. Non-human identity security: Design fine-grained RBAC for agent tool authorisations and API scopes. Secure agent communication: Implement mTLS and cryptographic validation for A2A, harden MCP tool connections and route traffic through Agent Gateways.
AI threat detection: Configure SCC AI Protection and build chain-of-thought audit logging for compliance and forensics. Automation: Build reusable Terraform modules and Python validation scripts and tests. what you bring Platform security: Advanced-to-expert GCP security architecture, including VPC-SC and CMEK. AI security: Advanced agentic AI security, with hands-on Model Armor and prompt-injection defence. Identity: Advanced-to-expert IAM for non-human identities. Service security: Advanced mTLS and service-to-service security; MCP/A2A exposure. Automation: Proficiency in Terraform and working-to-proficient Python. Work mode: Comfortable working from the office. positive to have Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer OWASP LLM Top 10 / AI red-teaming exposure Vertex AI Agent Engine experience why searce Solver mindset: We hire solvers, not task-takers. You will be trusted to own problems end to end. Not a CAVEr, say no to HiPPO: We are not Citizens Against Virtually Everything, and the best idea wins over the highest-paid person's opinion. AI-native practice: ATRE is built around AI tools and AIOps from day one, so you build the future of managed services rather than inherit the past. Learning and growth: Partner-led certifications and exposure to Google Cloud, AWS, Databricks and Anthropic Claude ecosystems. Culture: HAPPIER values (humble, adaptable, positive, passionate, innovative, excellence, responsible).
📌 Lead Engineer – Agentic AI Security (India)
🏢 Searce
📍 India