Josh Bradley

Cybersecurity Principal Architect for AI

Cox Automotive Inc. • Jan 2026 - Present

Atlanta, Georgia

Lead enterprise security architecture for AI across Cox Automotive's global multi-cloud environment, owning the principles, standards, and design patterns that product and enterprise engineering teams adopt to build secure AI-powered solutions. Responsible for securing AI in both customer-facing products and back-office systems — translating risk into actionable guardrails across the AI lifecycle. Drive alignment across cross-functional teams, partner with executive and business stakeholders to embed security into AI governance, and mentor architects and engineers on cloud and AI security best practices.

Senior Architect, AI

Enterprise Platforms, Cox Communications • 2024 - 2026

As the Senior Lead AI Infrastructure Architect, I am responsible for designing and developing end-to-end AI infrastructure platforms that align with our IT OPS client lifecycle. I serve as a liaison between our clients and internal teams, including the AI Council, Product, Engineering, and Security organizations. My role encompasses ensuring our AI architecture, platforms, and services meet business goals while adhering to strategic architecture and security standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading AI platform design and development within public and on-premises environments.
• Establishing and implementing best practices, standards, and guidelines for AI infrastructure.
• Optimizing and troubleshooting AI infrastructure performance, availability, and security.
• Researching emerging technologies and providing recommendations and proof-of-concepts.
• Collaborating with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver AI solutions.

Director, Platform Innovation and Operations

Strategy Office, Cox Communications • 2021 - 2024

Perform as technical leader for strategy organization responsible for defining technology roadmap and providing support for multiple high-impact ventures. Direct multiple managers overseeing global hardware and software engineering teams to design and support nationwide customer-facing services. Manage $9MM+ budget and align with business objectives through monthly technology and KPI reviews for Chief Strategy Officer and leadership teams. Spearhead solutioning, architecture, and delivery for companies ranging from startups to enterprises valued up to $160B.

• Quickly launched public edge cloud consisting of 5 data centers, offering services including 400Gbps network throughput, object / S3 storage, Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS), and GPUs.
• Established AI-focused hosting environments designed for high-throughput GPU workloads.
• Reduced time to delivery and increased quality, focusing on automation and utilizing Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) methodologies for devices and entire data centers.
• Guaranteed protected platforms and safe customer experience, governing security office for edge cloud services, including coordination with enterprise security departments and strict adherence to data protection, end-to-end encryption, code scans, quarterly patching, and semiannual penetration testing.
• Oversaw vendor management for Dell, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Pure, MetalSoft, Augtera, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Arista, Juniper, World Wide Technology, Ahead, and others, securing optimal partnerships and seamless integration of technologies.
• Taught advanced topics, publicly presenting service availability features to Seattle Kubernetes meetup as well as live webinars available here
• Architected Computer Vision platforms for major US cities and retailers, assisting with traffic intelligence and loss prevention.
• Delivered virtualization and containerization cloud services by managing SaaS products across 15 nationwide data centers.

Senior Manager

Enterprise Platforms, Cox Communications • 2015 - 2021

Led 3 teams of engineers in the enterprise infrastructure organization, providing secure, enterprise-class container hosting and secure images.