Lead AI & Cloud Security Engineer

Bain & Company, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision premiums paid

Paid time off

Fully vested 401(k)

Job summary

Bain & Company, Inc. is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to own the security posture of the Growth AI Performance System. You will secure cloud infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, and agentic AI workflows, embedding security into the development lifecycle and guiding incident responses.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, platform engineers, and product teams to protect enterprise data and enable rapid innovation for client engagements.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in cybersecurity, cloud security, or related roles.
• Experience securing AWS/Azure cloud environments and IAM.
• Ownership of security controls for cloud-native apps and incident response.
• Understanding of authentication/authorization and least-privilege principles.
• Knowledge of AI security risks and structured threat modelling methods.
• Experience integrating security into DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with GDPR, SOC 2, and enterprise data security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Secure and harden cloud infrastructure across Azure or AWS, including APIs and data services.
• Design and maintain authentication, authorization, identity management, and least-privilege access controls.
• Own secrets management, certificate rotation, secure configurations, and security monitoring.
• Partner with DevOps to embed security into infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
• Design safeguards against AI-specific threats and secure RAG pipelines and agent memory systems.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for new features and maintain security docs for client reviews.

Skills

Cloud security engineering

Threat modeling

Security testing

DevSecOps

IAM & least privilege

GDPR & SOC 2 knowledge

Security communication

Associate/Bachelor in technical field

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Garak

PyRIT

Job description

Bain & Company, Inc. is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to own the security posture of the Growth AI Performance System. You will secure cloud infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, and agentic AI workflows, embedding security into the development lifecycle and guiding incident responses.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, platform engineers, and product teams to protect enterprise data and enable rapid innovation for client engagements.