Security Engineer - VP

DWS Group; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Company perks

Retirement plan

Hybrid work model

Job summary

DWS Group in Madrid is seeking a Security Engineer, VP to help build and scale AI security capabilities, ensuring secure AI adoption across the firm while enabling innovation. You will engineer guardrails, logging, and automated security testing, integrate controls into APIs, CI/CD, and cloud environments, and support LLM/RAG deployments with strong governance.

Join a growing AI Security CoE reporting to the CSO and help shape scalable security solutions that protect data and enable responsible

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or related areas, with AI/GenAI experience.
• Strong Python, API, CI/CD, cloud, automation, logging, and security-tool integration skills.
• Experience automating vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation workflows.
• Knowledge of LLM, RAG, agentic AI, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and AI security telemetry.
• Ability to apply AI tools to improve productivity while ensuring responsible data usage.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and integrate AI security guardrails, gateways, logging, monitoring, and controls.
• Build automated security evaluations and testing harnesses.
• Integrate AI security controls into APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Support secure deployment and monitoring of LLM, RAG, and agentic applications.
• Develop tooling and automation to scale the AI Security CoE.

Skills

Python

API integration

CI/CD

Cloud security

Automation

Logging

Vulnerability management

AI security

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud security tools

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

About DWS

Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures - but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change.

Position Overview

Employer: DWS Group

Title: Security Engineer, VP

Location: Madrid

Team / Division Overview

DWS is transforming its Technology function and growing its internal capabilities. As AI and other emerging technologies continue to reshape the business and threat landscape, we are building a focused AI Security capability that brings together the right mix of cybersecurity, engineering, architecture, data protection, offensive security, and risk expertise. These roles will help grow and evolve our security function so we can securely enable innovation while identifying and managing new and rapidly developing risks. You will be a key member of this team, and an important part of our journey to build a scalable, forward-looking AI Security capability.

The candidate for this role reports into the DWS CSO AI Security CoE Lead and will serve as a key member of the AI Security Team, responsible for engineering and implementing scalable security controls that enable the secure adoption of AI across the firm.

Your Responsibilities

• Engineer and integrate AI security guardrails, gateways, logging, monitoring, and controls.
• Build automated security evaluations and testing harnesses.
• Integrate AI security controls into APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Support secure deployment and monitoring of LLM, RAG, and agentic applications.
• Develop tooling and automation to scale the AI Security CoE.

We are looking for

• 5+ years of security engineering, DevSecOps, application security, cloud security, or vulnerability management engineering experience, with recent experience supporting AI/ML or GenAI solutions.
• Strong Python, API, CI/CD, cloud, automation, logging, and security-tool integration skills.
• Experience automating vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritization, remediation workflows, and continuous security testing, with the ability to apply these practices to emerging AI attack surfaces.
• Working knowledge of LLM, RAG, agentic AI, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and AI security telemetry.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

What we'll offer you

At DWS we're serious about diversity, equity and creating an inclusive culture where colleagues can be themselves and it's important to us that you enjoy coming to work - feeling healthy, happy and rewarded. At DWS, you'll have access to a range of benefits which you can choose from to create a personalised plan unique to your lifestyle. Whether you're interested in healthcare, company perks, or are thinking about your retirement plan, there's something for everyone.

DWS' Hybrid Working model is designed to find the right balance between in-person collaboration and engagement in the office, which is core to our working culture, and working from home. Each business group varies on the split between time spent in the office and at home, but this will be discussed and made clear as part of your application and interview process. We will continue to review and evolve our working environments and methods to ensure that we are working in the best way possible for our people.

If you require any adjustments or changes to be made to the interview process for any reason including, or related to a disability or long-term health condition, then please contact your recruiter and let them know what assistance you may need. Examples of adjustments include providing a change to the format of the interview, or providing assistance when at the DWS office. This will not affect your application and your recruitment team will discuss options with you.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.