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.

good 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, creative, excellence, responsible).

📌 Lead Engineer – Agentic AI Security (GCP) (Maharashtra)
🏢 Searce
📍 Maharashtra