Professional Services Consultant - AI Security

Welcome to the future of cloud networking and security! Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud. It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer and early investors. Cato’s unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named “SASE” by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028. This is your opportunity to get on the rocket ship and join a company that is building a cutting-edge enterprise network and secure cloud platform, and is on a fast track to becoming the worldwide market leader.

As a Cato AI Security Professional Services Consultant, you will be a trusted advisor to our customers to help see them through their AI security implementation journey. You will provide technical guidance and direction to ensure the Cato AI security solution's smooth and successful implementation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain expert-level implementation proficiency of the Cato AI security solution while keeping abreast of the dynamic AI security and enterprise IT infrastructure landscape.
• Develop meaningful relationships with key customer stakeholders and their partners, adopting a consultative and prescriptive approach that inspires trust and confidence.
• Lead end-to-end customer engagements implementing Cato AI security solution for AI risk management, model security, and data protection.
• Provide technical leadership in deploying and configuring Cato AI Security solution to secure data flows, API calls, and model interactions.
• Work with customer teams to design secure AI architectures and establish governance frameworks aligned to standards such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and EU AI Act guidance.
• Translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for both executive and technical audiences.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on AI and LLM security across Cato’s customer base.
• Contribute to development of internal knowledge sharing, solution playbooks, and enablement materials for partners and customers.
• Foster collaboration with our product management, support and engineering teams by providing feedback from the field on features and functionality.
• Support pre-sales and scoping discussions for new professional services engagements.
• Identify opportunities to expand customer value through additional AI security services and capabilities.
• Collaboration with greater professional services team to help synthesize experiences and trends observed in the field into repeatable technical best practices.
• Able to operate day-to-day with minimal oversight and function as a point of technical escalation for other projects.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in cyber security, risk management, and/or application development security with strong foundational knowledge of cybersecurity principles.
• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing role (e.g., consulting, professional services, pre-sales, managed services) for a high-tech software or technology vendor.
• Proven track record leading enterprise consulting or professional services engagements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of influencing at all levels.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Exposure to unique threat landscape for AI and LLMs including AI specific threat models and risks.
• Proficient in RESTful API design and security.
• Exposure to implementation of API gateways and AI application specific gateways.
• Understanding of secure prompt engineering and policy enforcement for AI tools.
• Experience with AI agents, tool-calling frameworks, and orchestration.
• Familiarity with data protection regulations and AI Security frameworks is a plus.
• Knowledge of and experience in deploying IT infrastructure services in an enterprise environment in a secure manner.
• Very well organized and work effectively in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Solid command of the English language (written and spoken) with additional language skills is a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time for customer on-site meetings and various company meetings.

Desired Skills

• Understanding of AI system architectures, data pipelines, and MLOps.
• Experience implementing AI-specific application security controls and LLM vulnerabilities testing.
• Experience designing access control and data classification for AI workflows.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud AI/ML application frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native security tooling.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration.
• Understanding of AI model lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Understanding of cloud security and secure integration of SaaS platforms.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation and DevSecOps practices.
• Industry accredited security certifications and AI security–specific credentials.
• Coding experience in Go, TypeScript, or Java.
• Knowledge of broader Security Access Service Edge (SASE) product landscape and features.