<div><strong>As a Principal Engineer in AI Security, you will define and lead Thrivent’s strategy for defending against emerging external AI-powered threats. This role focuses on protecting the enterprise from adversarial AI capabilities, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and AI-driven attack campaigns. You will operate at the intersection of cyber defense, artificial intelligence, and enterprise architecture, translating rapidly evolving external threats into practical, scalable protections across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence security strategy at the highest levels.<br></strong><br></div><h3>DUTIES &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3><div><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Apply expert-level knowledge of AI-driven threats, cyber defense, and enterprise security architecture to define and drive outcomes that protect the organization from emerging AI-powered attack vectors.</li><li>Create the enterprise strategy for defending against AI-enabled threats, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Establish architecture for detection, prevention, and response capabilities specific to generative AI threat patterns.</li><li>Define and implement security patterns and guardrails to enable safe and secure enterprise consumption of AI technologies.</li><li>Drive integration of AI threat detection and controls into existing cyber defense tooling and platforms.</li><li>Build threat models focused on generative AI attack patterns and emerging adversarial techniques.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Implementing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Use independent, critical thinking to translate evolving AI threat intelligence into scalable engineering controls and defensive capabilities.</li><li>Lead the development of detection and response mechanisms for AI-driven attacks across enterprise environments.</li><li>Design and implement telemetry strategies to identify anomalous behavior indicative of AI-enabled threats.</li><li>Partner with Cyber Defense teams to operationalize detections, response playbooks, and automation for AI-related incidents.</li><li>Prototype and evaluate defensive applications of AI to enhance detection, response, and security operations.</li><li>Develop architecturally significant components that advance the organization’s ability to defend against AI-driven adversaries.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Learning and Applying New Techniques</strong></div><ul><li>Lead research initiatives focused on emerging AI threat capabilities, adversarial AI techniques, and evolving attack methodologies.</li><li>Maintain deep expertise in industry frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.</li><li>Continuously evaluate and introduce modern security technologies and approaches to address AI-era risks.</li><li>Drive adoption of innovative defensive techniques across the organization to stay ahead of threat evolution.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Within the Team</strong></div><ul><li>Provide deep technical expertise in AI security to solve complex, high-impact problems and remove critical technical roadblocks.</li><li>Partner with product owners and engineering teams to incorporate AI security requirements into technical designs and user stories.</li><li>Act as a technical leader in system design across teams, ensuring AI security considerations are embedded into broader architecture decisions.</li><li>Mentor engineers and elevate AI security capabilities within teams.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across Teams</strong></div><ul><li>Partner closely with Cyber Defense, IAM, and Application Security teams to integrate AI threat protections across the security ecosystem.</li><li>Promote adherence to enterprise security standards while extending them to address AI-specific risks.</li><li>Broker design and implementation of AI security controls across product teams to support strategic priorities.</li><li>Drive alignment across teams on detection engineering, telemetry, and response strategies for AI threats.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across the Organization</strong></div><ul><li>Influence senior leadership on AI risk posture, threat landscape evolution, and required investments in defensive capabilities.</li><li>Provide enterprise-wide guidance on AI security architecture, ensuring consistent and scalable protection strategies.</li><li>Represent the organization externally on AI security topics when appropriate (industry forums, partnerships, etc.).</li><li>Translate complex AI security risks into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy</strong></div><ul><li>Define enterprise-level capabilities required to defend against AI-powered threats.</li><li>Shape the strategic direction for AI security across cyber defense, detection engineering, and secure AI adoption.</li><li>Provide subject matter expertise to guide platform and security investments related to AI risk mitigation.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns</strong></div><ul><li>Establish and promote engineering standards for AI security, including secure AI usage patterns and detection frameworks.</li><li>Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent application of AI security controls and design patterns.</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for integrating AI threat protections into engineering workflows and platforms.</li></ul><div><br><strong>DevOps</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical leadership in identifying and responding to AI-driven security incidents and emerging threats.</li><li>Introduce resilient and scalable technologies to improve detection and response capabilities for evolving attack patterns.</li><li>Evaluate and implement enhancements to CI/CD and operational pipelines to incorporate AI security controls.</li><li>Influence cross-functional teams to proactively address risks associated with AI-enabled development and deployment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical expertise in evaluating AI security tools, detection platforms, and emerging defensive technologies.</li><li>Assess how vendor solutions align with enterprise strategy for defending against AI-driven threats.</li><li>Contribute to selection criteria for platforms that enhance AI security posture and detection capabilities.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong></div><ul><li>Mentor engineers in AI security concepts, threat modeling, and detection engineering.</li><li>Provide guidance on best practices for securing AI-enabled systems and defending against adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Deliver training, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions to build AI security expertise across the organization.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Recruiting and Building Talent</strong></div><ul><li>Engage in the broader AI and security community to strengthen organizational expertise and visibility in AI security.</li><li>Support recruitment efforts to hire engineers with specialized skills in AI security and advanced cyber defense.</li><li>Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and strong security practices aligned to evolving AI risks.</li></ul><div><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS &amp; SKILLS:</strong></div><h3>Required:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field</li><li>Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy</li><li>Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering</li><li>Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders</li></ul><h3>Preferred:</h3><ul><li>Experience working with AI/ML systems and security implications</li><li>Knowledge of adversarial AI techniques and AI threat modeling</li><li>Experience with XDR, SIEM, and detection engineering practices</li><li>Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)</li><li>Financial services industry experience</li></ul><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Pay Transparency</strong></div><div>Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.&nbsp; The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.&nbsp; The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.</div><div><br></div><div>Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.&nbsp; That extends to our benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>The following benefits may be offered:&nbsp; various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.&nbsp; Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.&nbsp; Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.</div>

Principal Engineer - AI Security

<div><strong>Get Involved!<br></strong><br></div><div>Samaritan's Purse has an incredible opportunity for a <strong>Cloud Engineer </strong>to join our <strong>Information Technology </strong>department. This fully <strong>remote (or on-site) </strong>role is part of the Samaritan Ark Cloud Services team, with a strong focus on Site Reliability. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll play a vital part in enabling ministries to spread the Gospel by ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our cloud platforms. We run a fully on-premise, open-source environment, and you'll focus on maintaining self-hosted tools that empower developers and operators. Don't miss this unique opportunity to serve Jesus while working with modern reliability practices and open-source technologies. Come and use your gifts daily to advance the Gospel!</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>A day in the life of a Cloud Engineer (SRE):&nbsp;</strong></div><div>At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.&nbsp;</div><div>In the role of Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:</div><ul><li>Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.</li><li>Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads in our private cloud platform. Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds.</li><li>Provision and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments.</li><li>Monitor applications and infrastructure performance and respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation, supporting root cause analysis and long-term remediation.</li><li>Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing.</li><li>Assist in evaluating cost implications and supporting optimization efforts for cloud resource usage; coordinate implementation efforts across stakeholders and vendors as needed.</li><li>Assist in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability.</li><li>Actively participate in team ceremonies, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings, fostering continuous improvement and shared accountability.</li><li>All other duties as assigned.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience</strong>:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Bachelor's degree or university program certificate in a related field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of Cloud Engineering experience, or seven (7) or more years of related experience.</li><li>Proven SRE or DevOps experience with a focus on reliability, automation, and production operations.</li><li>Extensive experience with observability systems, building and maintaining production stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace.</li><li>Extensive GitOps experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux, including management of self-hosted Git platforms such as Gitea or GitLab.</li><li>Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort with open-source, on-premise environments; OpenStack experience is a plus.</li><li>12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, an opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire.&nbsp;</li></ul><div><strong>Job Location:</strong> Remote</div><div><strong>Type:</strong> Full-Time</div><div><strong>Language Requirement:</strong> Fluency in English (required)</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Benefits:</strong></div><ul><li>Medical, prescription, dental &amp; vision insurance</li><li>Flexible Spending Account (FSA)</li><li>Long-term and Short-term disability insurance</li><li>Paid Family Medical Leave&nbsp;</li><li>Term Life Insurance</li><li>401(k) retirement savings plan</li><li>10 paid holidays</li><li>12 vacation/personal days</li><li>10 sick days</li></ul>

Cloud Engineer (SRE)

<div><strong>Hobby Lobby </strong>is looking for a highly energetic and versatile individual with 3+ years hands-on experience with software delivery and development. Must be able to help develop, test, deploy, monitor, and enhance Hobby Lobby’s dynamic, ever-evolving web and applications infrastructure. <br><br>This is an in-person office position in Oklahoma City, located on a 1,000+ acre campus with an on-site clinic and pharmacy.<br>&nbsp; <br><strong>Primary Functions/Job Description</strong></div><ul><li>Application Performance Monitoring<ul><li>Configure, maintain, and optimize an APM implementation to improve observability</li><li>Facilitate collaboration between development, operations, and network teams to improve application performance and reliability&nbsp;</li><li>Proactively identify application and infrastructure enhancements</li><li>Perform root cause analysis and improve the mean time to repair (MTTR)</li></ul></li><li>Manage software deployments including automated software delivery pipeline development, release / deployment management, and release troubleshooting</li><li>Design, write, and deliver software to manage applications and application infrastructure</li><li>Collaborate with IT Security to address compliance and ensure a secure application environment</li><li>Provide input on and execute development, deployment, security, and APM best practices</li><li>Participation in an on-call rotation</li></ul><div><br><strong>Job Description - Requirements</strong></div><div><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>3+ years of hands-on experience with software delivery, including<ul><li>Software release management</li><li>Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline design and development</li><li>Administration of CI/CD tools</li></ul></li><li>3+ years of hands-on software development experience in an enterprise environment with one or more of the following programming languages<ul><li>C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Groovy</li></ul></li><li>Experience with&nbsp;<ul><li>In-depth debugging and troubleshooting&nbsp;</li><li>Vulnerability scanning and mitigation&nbsp;</li><li>Scripting languages</li><li>DevOps principles and practices</li><li>Web server administration and automation&nbsp;</li></ul></li><li>Degree in MIS or Computer Science</li></ul><div><br><strong>Preferred Skills</strong></div><ul><li>Hands-on experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools, including&nbsp;<ul><li>Distributed tracing and code level diagnostics</li><li>Constructing dashboards and executing meaningful alerts</li><li>Implementing custom metrics and integrations&nbsp;</li><li>Maintaining an APM system and configuring features / settings</li></ul></li><li>Experience administrating hosted and proxied repositories (maven, npm, nuget, go, pypi, ruby)</li><li>Familiar with release engineering, version management, and packaging</li><li>Experience administering web and application servers</li><li>Understanding of certificates (TLS)&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding of load balancing algorithms</li></ul><div><br><strong>Benefits include:</strong></div><ul><li>Competitive Wages</li><li>Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Plan</li><li>401(k) Program with Company Match</li><li>Paid Vacation</li><li>Sick / Personal Pay (SPP)&nbsp;</li><li>Employee Discount</li><li>Life Insurance and Long Term Disability Insurance (LTD)</li><li>Flexible Spending Plan</li><li>Holiday Pay</li><li>Integris Clinic and Pharmacy on campus</li><li>Chaplain Services on campus</li></ul>

DevOps Developer

<div><strong>Company Overview&nbsp;</strong></div><div>We build the leading pupil transportation tracking platform that protects over 1 million K-12 students every day. Our RFID-based system provides real-time bus tracking, parent notifications, routing, dismissal management, and student safety tools to school districts across the country. As a privately owned, bootstrapped SaaS company, we are currently building a lean, high-performing engineering team that delivers exceptional reliability and customer outcomes.</div><div><strong>Position Overview</strong><br>We are seeking a rare, high-impact leader to step into the dual role of Director &amp; Staff Engineer of Software Development. This unique position sits at the intersection of executive technical leadership and hands-on execution. You will split your time between defining the engineering strategy, building and mentoring a world-class team, and actively writing code and defining software architecture. As a Staff Engineer, you will be an individual contributor driving our core technical vision, designing scalable systems, and pioneering AI-assisted development workflows. As a Director, you will collaborate with cross-functional leadership, unblock delivery pipelines, manage engineering outcomes, and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.</div><div><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></div><div><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture (Staff Engineer Scope)</strong></div><ul><li>Hands-on Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance features across our full stack using Azure SQL, .NET 8+, ADO.NET, EF Core, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, React/Next.js, and TypeScript.</li><li>Architectural Stewardship: Guide the transition of legacy systems toward clean architecture, optimizing backend business logic, data access layers, and data models in Azure SQL.</li><li>Pioneer AI-Driven Velocity: Lead the adoption of emerging AI engineering tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude). Leveraging AI for design, code generation, testing, and documentation is a baseline expectation.</li><li>Geospatial Innovation: Architect and scale features leveraging mapping and navigation platforms, handling real-time location tracking, routing engines, and spatial databases.</li></ul><div><strong>Organizational &amp; People Leadership (Director Scope)</strong></div><ul><li>Team Performance &amp; Delivery: Collaborate with Product Management, DevOps, and QA to establish highly efficient CI/CD workflows, ensuring the team successfully ships reliable code multiple times per week.</li><li>Mentorship &amp; Culture: Actively mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pair-programming, rigorous code reviews, and career development frameworks. Cultivate an environment focused on high accountability and continuous learning.</li><li>Strategic Alignment: Represent the engineering team in leadership circles, aligning technical roadmaps with broader business objectives and managing resource allocation effectively.</li><li>Operational Excellence: Oversee operational health, including performance tuning, security compliance, automated testing standards, and the engineering on-call rotation framework.</li></ul><div><strong>Must-Have Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>6+ years of full-stack .NET experience in production environments, with a proven track record of designing and shipping large-scale, high-availability distributed systems.</li><li>Expert proficiency in C#, .NET 8 (or later), EF Core, ASP.NET MVC, and Azure SQL.</li><li>Strong front-end mastery utilizing React 18+, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern state management.</li><li>Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems.</li><li>Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated unit/integration testing frameworks, and advanced monitoring/telemetry.</li><li>Demonstrated experience or strong aptitude for engineering management, resource planning, and cross-functional leadership.</li><li>Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>A relentless passion for efficiency; an early adopter mindset regarding LLMs and AI-assisted coding to maximize team velocity.</li></ul><div><strong>Strongly Preferred Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>Geospatial &amp; Navigation Expertise: Hands-on experience building or integrating with mapping platforms such as Google Maps API, Mapbox, HERE Maps, OpenStreetMap (OSM), or ArcGIS.</li><li>Telematics &amp; Routing: Familiarity with geocoding, reverse geocoding, routing engines, polyline rendering, real-time location tracking, or fleet/telematics applications.</li><li>Spatial Data: Experience working with GIS data formats (GeoJSON, KML, Shapefiles) and spatial databases (PostGIS, Azure SQL spatial types).</li></ul><div><strong>Position Details &amp; Requirements</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Location</strong>: Full-time, on-site in our Georgetown, TX 78628 headquarters. Return to Office (RTO) is required and non-negotiable. This is an in-office role with no remote or hybrid option.</li><li><strong>Employment Type</strong>: W-2 employee only. We do not hire 1099 contractors or C2C arrangements for this position.</li><li><strong>Work Authorization</strong>: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder. No visa sponsorship is available.</li><li><strong>Compensation</strong>: $165,000 – $185,000 base salary (depending on experience and qualifications). Full benefits package included (medical, dental, vision, term life, 401k, and PTO).</li></ul>

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