AI Investigations & Enforcement Analyst
- Location
- Hyderabad, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
About Vanguard Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard India Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients. Role Summary We are seeking an experienced security practitioner responsible for investigating AI-related security events and executing approved enforcement actions across enterprise AI use cases. This role supports a 24/7 operational security function and combines hands-on threat investigation, policy validation, evidence collection, and control tuning to reduce risk while enabling secure adoption of AI technologies.
Responsibilites T riage and investigate alerts involving enterprise AI applications, LLMs, AI agents, plugins, skills, browser extensions, local IDE tooling, agent-to-agent traffic, and SaaS/PaaS attack surfaces.
- Correlate telemetry from endpoint, network, cloud, SaaS/PaaS, identity, AI gateway, and application controls to determine scope, cause, and potential impact.
- Execute documented enforcement actions such as blocking prohibited AI destinations or tools, restricting risky agent capabilities, escalating compromised identities, and recommending policy changes.
- Validate detections and enforcement policies through controlled sandbox and adversarial testing, including prompt injection, impersonation, data leakage, unsafe tool use, and unauthorized model or agent access.
- Maintain investigation of records, evidence, indicators, case timelines, and remediation actions in accordance with security operations procedures.
- Partner with SOC, incident response, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application security, and AI platform teams to resolve AI security findings.
- Identify recurring investigation patterns and recommend detection logic, runbook, dashboard, or policy improvements.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 5 years of experience in cyber threat detection, incident response, or security operations with exposure to real-time threat analysis and response strategies.
- Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or a related discipline, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Cybersecurity or Network Security.
- cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, threat analysis, application security, cloud security, or a related discipline, including hands-on experience investigating or securing workloads in public cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of LLM and agent security concepts, including prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, excessive agency, tool abuse, insecure plugins, and machine/non-human identity risk.
- Knowledge of AI supply chain and security posture management concepts, including MCP servers, agent skills, plugins, model and prompt artifacts, AI-generated code, and other AI artifacts.
- Hands-on ability to analyze logs, alerts, HTTP/API traffic, endpoint telemetry, authentication activity, and network events.
- Experience with security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, SSE/SWG, API security, cloud security, identity controls, or AI gateways.
• Ability to document investigations clearly and communicate technical findings to engineering and security partners. Location This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
Our mission Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Our commitment to you Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
Financial wellness We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.
Physical wellness We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.
Personal wellness We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.
How we work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
From The Vanguard Group, Inc.'s careers page (Workday), checked 3 Nov 2026.
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Posted 3 Nov 2026 · checked 3 Nov 2026 · Report this job