Senior Cloud App Security Lead (AWS, AI)

8396 Ireland - Genesys Cloud Services Ireland Limited; Ireland; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesys is seeking a Principal Cloud Application Security Engineer to shape how security scales across cloud accounts, regions, APIs, applications and software supply chains. You will own the technical direction of a small team while staying hands-on with vulnerability triage, detection engineering, and cloud security across enterprise-scale deployments.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, reducing false positives, and defining trust boundaries for AI-driven security decisions, with a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in application/product security, vulnerability management, or cloud security.
• Demonstrated expertise in real-world exploitability across web/API security.
• Strong experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, and cloud security tooling.
• Proven ability to scale security detection and automation using AI-driven approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small Application Security team and set technical direction.
• Own end-to-end application security operating model and coverage evolution.
• Drive scalable detection across SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, cloud security, and AI-enabled security capabilities.
• Expand security visibility across web, API, mobile, cloud, and software supply chains to identify systemic risks.
• Establish meaningful security coverage metrics and defensible vulnerability decisions.
• Lead investigation and escalation of high-risk security issues across tenants and data exposure.

Skills

Cloud security

Application security

SAST

SCA

DAST

AWS

Python

Tools

Automation tooling

Security tooling

Job description

Genesys is seeking a Principal Cloud Application Security Engineer to shape how security scales across cloud accounts, regions, APIs, applications and software supply chains. You will own the technical direction of a small team while staying hands-on with vulnerability triage, detection engineering, and cloud security across enterprise-scale deployments.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, reducing false positives, and defining trust boundaries for AI-driven security decisions, with a