CyberCX - Senior Engineer (FDE) - Secure AI

Accenture PLC

Sydney

On-site

AUD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave
Career breaks (long & short-term)
Structured career development program
International career opportunities
Family Inclusive Workplace
Flexible Work Arrangements
Diversity & Inclusion recognition

Job summary

CyberCX, part of Accenture, protects and defends our customers with comprehensive cyber security services in the region. The Secure AI Engineer delivers consulting and engineering across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments.

You will work with clients and teams on design reviews, implementation support, and risk assessment to enable secure AI adoption. This role requires experience in software/ML engineering, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), secure development

Qualifications

  • Experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, cloud engineering, security engineering, or technical consulting.
  • Experience building, reviewing, or supporting modern applications or cloud-based systems.
  • Familiarity with secure development practices and security concepts across AI, apps, infrastructure, and integrations.
  • Ability to investigate issues, structure findings, and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery of secure AI and application security engagements for enterprise and government clients.
  • Review AI-enabled applications, workflows, platforms, and integrations.
  • Identify risks across models, prompts, data flows, APIs, cloud services, and supporting systems.
  • Define practical recommendations to improve security, governance, and delivery controls.
  • Build or configure technical controls, patterns, and artefacts for secure AI implementations.
  • Produce clear client deliverables, including technical products, findings, recommendations and guidance.

Skills

Software engineering
ML engineering
Data science
Cloud engineering
Security engineering
Technical consulting
AI/Generative AI exposure
Communication skills
Team collaboration
CI/CD

Tools

AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Kubernetes
IAM security
Threat modelling
NIST/ISO 27001 familiarity

Job description

The work we do matters

CyberCX, part of Accenture, protects and defends our customers and communities by providing the most comprehensive range of cyber security professional services in the region.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com.

About the Role

The Secure AI Engineer is responsible for the delivery of consulting and engineering services across Secure AI, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud environments.

Working closely with clients, teammates, and other practices you will contribute to a range of engagements across design review, implementation support, control uplift, and technical assessment, helping organisations adopt AI in a secure and responsible way.

Key Roles & Responsibilities
  • Support the delivery of secure AI and application security engagements for enterprise and government clients
  • Contribute to reviews of AI-enabled applications, workflows, platforms, and integrations
  • Assist in identifying risks across models, prompts, data flows, APIs, cloud services, and supporting systems
  • Help define practical recommendations to improve security, governance, and delivery controls
  • Build or configure technical controls, patterns, and supporting artefacts for secure AI implementations
  • Produce clear, high-quality client deliverables, including technical products, findings, recommendations, implementation guidance, and supporting documentation
  • Work with client stakeholders to understand their environment, priorities, and constraints
  • Contribute to reusable templates, reference patterns, and internal capability uplift across the Secure AI team
  • Collaborate across CyberCX practices where engagements span cloud, identity, application security, data, or governance domains
Preferred Qualifications, Experience & Skills
  • Experience in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, cloud engineering, security engineering, or technical consulting
  • Experience building, reviewing, or supporting modern applications or cloud-based systems
  • Familiarity with secure development practices and common security concepts across AI, applications, infrastructure, and integrations
  • Ability to investigate technical issues, structure findings, and communicate clearly
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • A practical, team-oriented approach to solving problems and delivering outcomes
  • Exposure to AI, ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development use cases
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Familiarity with application security review, threat modelling, IAM, API security, or workload security
  • Exposure to CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerised workloads, or Kubernetes
  • Awareness of common security or risk frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, MAESTRO, or similar
Benefits of working at Accenture:
  • 18 weeks paid parental leave
  • Long & short-term career break opportunities
  • Structured career development program
  • Local and international career opportunities.
  • Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
  • Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
  • We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is a an EEO and Affiantative Action Employee of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

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