Senior Security Engineer, SAP Cybersecurity — EMEA

Apple; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Cork, Ireland, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for SAP Cybersecurity — EMEA. The role focuses on threat modeling, implementing SAP security controls, and guiding secure development for cloud and on-prem SAP environments.

The candidate will lead AI‑enabled security testing, respond to SAP security incidents regionally, and collaborate with global teams to drive secure architectures across the SAP portfolio.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering in large enterprises.
• Offensive security experience against enterprise apps and SAP surface.
• Demonstrated AI security experience with agentic systems and frontier AI.
• Excellent written and spoken English; able to collaborate across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Threat-model SAP platforms, cloud services, and AI capabilities; translate findings into risk decisions.
• Design and implement security controls for SAP S/4HANA, HANA, and BTP from design review to production.
• Set and validate security standards for SAP cloud and SaaS services with SAP and partner teams.
• Secure AI and agentic systems touching enterprise data using frontier AI to build/run controls.
• Lead AI-assisted offensive testing across SAP on-prem, cloud, and SaaS; feed findings to architecture/detection.
• Lead technical responses to SAP security incidents in the region; coordinate with global teams.
• Set direction for secure development and guide agentic AI use across security ops.
• Mentor other engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams across lifecycle.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Offensive security

AI security

English communication

Cloud and SaaS security

GDPR/NIS2/EU AI Act awareness

Python scripting

Incident response

SAP security (on-prem & BTP)

Security testing leadership

Job description

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Senior Security Engineer, SAP Cybersecurity — EMEA

Cork, County Cork, Ireland Corporate Functions

Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple's Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It's Apple's central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Apple's enterprise systems power how our products are planned, built, moved, and sold. Cloud, SAP innovation, and AI are reshaping them, and attackers now move at machine speed. Security has to be engineered in, not inspected after the fact.Join our SAP Cybersecurity team in Cork to assess, attack, and harden SAP platforms on-premise and in the cloud, using frontier AI hands‑on, and turn what you find into controls that ship. This is a hands‑on engineering role with real influence. It isn't a compliance role.

Description

Threat-model platform changes, cloud services, and AI capabilities, then turn the analysis into clear risk decisions.Design and implement security controls for SAP S/4HANA, HANA, and BTP, from design review to production.Set and validate the security standards SAP cloud and SaaS services must meet, working directly with SAP and partner engineering teams.Secure AI and agentic systems that touch enterprise data, and use frontier AI hands‑on to build and run security controls.Lead AI-supported offensive testing across SAP on‑premise, cloud, and SaaS, and feed what you find into architecture and detection.Lead technical response to SAP security incidents in the region, working with global detection and response teams.Set direction for secure development, and help shape how agentic AI is used across security operations.Guide other engineers, and partner with technical and business teams across the full system lifecycle.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on cybersecurity engineering in large, complex enterprises, including deep experience securing on‑premise SAP and SAP BTP.
• Offensive security experience against enterprise applications and SAP’s technical attack surface, with a track record of turning findings into defensive architecture.
• Demonstrated AI security experience: attacking and securing agentic systems, and using frontier AI to build and operate security controls.
• Excellent written and spoken English, and the ability to collaborate across time zones with a global team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Incident response experience as a technical responder or lead.
• Cloud and SaaS security architecture depth: identity federation (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), key management, and supply chain integrity.
• Experience across SAP's cloud and SaaS portfolio, including large‑scale transformation or integration programs.
• Familiarity with AI security frameworks such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLM and Agentic Applications, MITRE ATLAS, or the NIST AI RMF.
• ABAP and custom code security review, and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Fluency in Python or a similar language to build your own tooling, and experience with detection‑as‑code.
• Experience guiding and developing other engineers.
• Experience applying GDPR, NIS2, or the EU AI Act to enterprise systems.

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