Nava
Website:
navapbc.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nava-cloud
Seniority: Director
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
Job details:
About Nava
Nava is building next-generation AI infrastructure and inference platforms designed to power the future of AI. As our infrastructure scales globally, security becomes foundational to everything we build.
We are looking for a
Head of AI Infrastructure Security to define and lead the security strategy across our AI platform, GPU infrastructure, cloud environments, and customer-facing services. This role will own the end-to-end security posture of our AI infrastructure, ensuring our platform remains secure, resilient, and compliant while enabling rapid innovation.
What You'll Do
Security Strategy & Architecture
- Define and own the security architecture for Nava's AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and control plane.
- Establish security standards, policies, and governance frameworks across infrastructure, applications, and engineering teams.
- Design security controls that enable secure multi-tenant AI infrastructure while maintaining performance and scalability.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed security into platform architecture and software development lifecycles.
Infrastructure & Platform Security
- Secure GPU clusters, compute infrastructure, networking, storage, Kubernetes environments, and management systems.
- Lead hardening initiatives across firmware, operating systems, virtualization layers, container platforms, APIs, and infrastructure services.
- Protect tenant isolation and ensure strong identity, access management, and privilege controls across the platform.
- Drive secure infrastructure provisioning through Infrastructure-as-Code and policy automation.
Threat Detection & Incident Response
- Build and lead security monitoring, detection, and response capabilities.
- Develop processes for vulnerability management, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and continuous security assessments.
- Lead incident response for security events, conduct forensic investigations, and drive root cause analysis.
- Continuously improve security operations through automation, threat hunting, and proactive risk mitigation.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Own infrastructure security compliance across applicable global standards and customer requirements.
- Partner with internal teams to support security audits, certifications, and customer due diligence.
- Establish security policies, risk management frameworks, and operational controls aligned with industry best practices.
- Drive security awareness and secure engineering practices across the organization.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering, GPU Cluster Engineering, Networking, SRE, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Success teams.
- Act as the executive security advisor for infrastructure, customer deployments, and strategic initiatives.
- Balance security requirements with operational efficiency and business objectives.
Team Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing Infrastructure Security organization.
- Mentor security engineers and technical leaders.
- Foster a security-first engineering culture through education, automation, and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years of experience in Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, or Platform Security.
- Proven experience leading security programs for large-scale cloud, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in the following areas:
- Cloud and infrastructure security
- Kubernetes and container security
- Linux systems security
- Network security and segmentation
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Zero Trust architecture
- Security Operations (SOC), SIEM, and threat detection
- Infrastructure hardening and vulnerability management
- Experience designing secure multi-tenant platforms and protecting customer workloads.
- Strong understanding of secure software development and DevSecOps practices.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience securing AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, HPC environments, or cloud-native platforms.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA GPU ecosystems, Kubernetes, RDMA/InfiniBand networking, confidential computing, and hardware security.
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or similar security and compliance frameworks.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, or GIAC are an advantage.
Why Join Nava?
- Lead the security strategy for one of the world's most advanced AI infrastructure platforms.
- Build secure, scalable systems that power next-generation AI workloads.
- Partner with world-class engineering teams to solve complex security challenges at the intersection of AI, cloud, and infrastructure.
- Shape the security foundation of Nava's global AI platform from architecture through operations.
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