Principal Security Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud Security

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DailyPay app

Awardco platform rewards

Medical plans

Employee travel discounts

Pet insurance

Wellness programs

401(k) program

Internal mobility

Job summary

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is seeking a hands-on Principal Security Engineer to lead the design, build, and scaling of enterprise cybersecurity across cloud, identity, endpoint, email, and productivity platforms. This role emphasizes automation, AI/ML, LLMs, and agentic AI to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response for a global enterprise.

The ideal candidate is autonomous, mentors engineers, and collaborates across Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and IT

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience with at least 4 years in security engineering, detection, or automation.
• Hands-on AI/ML applied to security work, including AI-assisted investigation and triage.
• Experience engineering security in major cloud and productivity ecosystems and native identity, endpoint, email services.
• Experience building/operating centralized monitoring on modern cloud-native SIEM platforms.
• Proven success securing hybrid IT with on-prem and multiple clouds.
• Strong systems, network, and cloud engineering foundations for security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal technical authority for security engineering and tooling quality.
• Design, build, and maintain detection content, analytics across cloud and productivity ecosystems.
• Operationalize security automation to reduce manual effort and speed response.
• Apply AI/ML to augment detection, investigation, triage, and response workflows.
• Integrate and scale identity, endpoint, email, and cloud security telemetry.
• Develop data pipelines and platform integrations for centralized monitoring.
• Promote secure-by-design practices and cloud resource hardening.
• Partner with analysts to map threat intel to detection capabilities.
• Develop tooling and scripts (Python, PowerShell) for automation.
• Lead investigations as a senior technical resource.
• Evaluate emerging security tech and AI capabilities with reference implementations.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

AI/ML for security

Threat detection

Identity & access

SIEM / cloud security

Python / PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree

Cybersecurity / CS / IS

Tools

Kubernetes

SIEM platforms

Cloud tooling

Job description

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is seeking a hands-on Principal Security Engineer to lead the design, build, and scaling of enterprise cybersecurity across cloud, identity, endpoint, email, and productivity platforms. This role emphasizes automation, AI/ML, LLMs, and agentic AI to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response for a global enterprise.

The ideal candidate is autonomous, mentors engineers, and collaborates across Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and IT