Senior Security Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud Security

AppliedAI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

AppliedAI in Abu Dhabi HQ is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and integrate security controls across cloud-native environments and AI-powered systems, embedding secure-by-design principles in the SDLC.

You will help define, pilot, and implement architectures that automate security processes at scale across design, development, and operations, collaborating across the information security organisation to raise the security bar and support regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of information security experience with hands-on app or infrastructure security.
• Strong understanding of core security principles and architectures.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, and deploying security automation.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and securing cloud-native infra/services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security assessments, threat hunts, code/log reviews, and pen tests to identify vulnerabilities.
• Design, implement, optimize, and monitor security controls across endpoints, infra, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own incident response from detection to containment, remediation, and post-incident review.
• Collaborate with engineering to raise security standards and embed security across the SDLC and automation.
• Join customer-facing technical discussions as a trusted security contact.
• Support compliance initiatives and customer security requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA).

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

Threat hunting

Incident response

Security automation

Python scripting

SDLC security

AI security

Networking fundamentals

Regulatory awareness

Tools

SIEM

IAM

SAST/DAST

Vulnerability management

Job description

AppliedAI in Abu Dhabi HQ is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and integrate security controls across cloud-native environments and AI-powered systems, embedding secure-by-design principles in the SDLC.

You will help define, pilot, and implement architectures that automate security processes at scale across design, development, and operations, collaborating across the information security organisation to raise the security bar and support regulatory requirements.