Senior Secure AI Engineer — Cloud & AI Security

Accenture PLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

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

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