Working knowledge of identity and access-control concepts, including authentication, authorization, privileged access management, identity governance, zero-standing privilege, workload and non-human identities, and secrets management, with the ability to apply these concepts when evaluating, designing, implementing, or measuring controls across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational workflows. Participate in AI security initiatives involving next-generation AI models, agents, and tool integrations (including Model Context Protocol / MCP), driving threat modeling, prompt injection defenses, data egress protection, guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, monitoring, and leveraging AI models to automate and enhance security operations.