Senior Cloud Security Engineer – AI-Driven Defenses & Automation

Fifth Third Bank; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to guide cloud-native and AI-enabled security engineering efforts. You will work with detection, response, and threat intel teams to build scalable infrastructure and applications that deter cyber threats.

Responsibilities include architecting AWS-based workloads, IaC automation, and leading code reviews for containerized and AI-enabled systems. Strong Kubernetes and EKS experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Passion for finding creative and innovative ways to detect and deter cybercriminals.
• Proven track record of building production-quality software and automation in one or more languages (Python, Go).
• Experience with AI-assisted software engineering techniques and tooling.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS, cloud networking, identity, security, compute, storage, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and enhance detection, response, and intel-related applications and platforms in cloud-native and AI-enabled contexts.
• Provide lead-level engineering review and approval of code changes across app, IaC, containerized, serverless, and AI workloads in cloud environments.
• Build, integrate, and maintain AI engineering harnesses and tools in AWS with observability and security controls.
• Engineer and support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS with focus on deployment, scaling, and security.
• Apply engineering judgment, testing, and security controls to AI-generated artifacts throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Go

AI engineering

Security engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Splunk

Elasticsearch

EDR

SIEM

SOAR

XDR

Bedrock (AWS AI)

Job description

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to guide cloud-native and AI-enabled security engineering efforts. You will work with detection, response, and threat intel teams to build scalable infrastructure and applications that deter cyber threats.

Responsibilities include architecting AWS-based workloads, IaC automation, and leading code reviews for containerized and AI-enabled systems. Strong Kubernetes and EKS experience preferred.