Information Security Architect - AI & Strategic Initiatives

About the Position

Information Security Architect - AI & Strategic Initiatives

Ryanair Labs, the technology brand of Ryanair, is currently recruiting a Senior Information Security Architect to join Europe’s Largest Airline Group! This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is expanding to 800 aircraft and 300 million guests within the next 10 years.

Responsibilities

As a senior, self-directed architect in a lean airline security team, you will:

• Find: Independently map how the security team works on detection, incident response, vulnerability management, pentesting, IAM, compliance, and spot repeatable manual work, weak controls, and gaps. Threat-model new AI systems and initiatives.
• Design: Develop automation and architecture patterns with explicit trade-offs: data boundaries, identity for humans and agents, least-privilege tool access, guardrails, human-in-the-loop for decisions.
• Build: Ship automation, policy-as-code, and proofs of concept. Integrate security tooling via APIs and MCP, keeping humans in the loop for decisions.
• Verify: Validate with the pentest and detection teams; measure hours removed, error rates, and coverage.
• Evolve: Keep a roadmap and metrics; update patterns as the AI and threat landscape shifts.

Requirements

• Must have:

  • 6+ years in security, including 3+ years in architecture or senior engineering roles, with an engineering background you still use.
  • Demonstrated autonomy: examples of automation or initiatives you identified, built, and shipped on your own initiative, with measured results.
  • Deep understanding of how LLM applications, RAG, agents, and tool/MCP integrations are built, and of their attack surface.
  • Multicloud architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure: identity, network, logging, policy-as-code.
  • Identity and zero-trust architecture, including workload and non-human identities.
  • Threat modelling, secure design, and secure SDLC practice.
  • Hands-on skills: Python, APIs, IaC; effective daily use of LLM assistants and agentic coding tools with critical validation of output.
  • Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives without formal authority: roadmap, business case, delivery.
  • Clear communication with executives and engineers alike.

• Nice to have:

  • Aviation, logistics, or other regulated-sector experience.
  • EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF in practice.
  • Contributions to, or research on, AI security red-teaming agents, guardrail frameworks, agent security patterns, open-source, publications, or talks.
  • Data security and privacy architecture (PII, PCI); SaaS security.
  • OT/ICS and safety-critical system security for airport and ground systems.
  • Certifications: CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF; cloud architecture/security.

We Offer

• Contract of employment (permanent contract after trial period)
  • Staff travel benefits from day one
  • Multisport card
  • Private health care
  • Group insurance scheme
• Other benefits
  • Possibility of taking part in trainings and certifications
  • Great chance to meet your colleagues in other offices
  • Annual events (i.e. St. Patrick’s Day 🍀)
  • Regular social meetings 🍻
  • Paid referral system
  • New office building surrounded by great dinettes right in the city centre 🌆

About the Company

Ryanair Labs is the technology brand of Ryanair. Labs is a state-of-the-art digital & IT innovation hub creating Europe’s Leading Travel Experience for our customers.