Senior Cloud Security Engineer - AI/ML Platforms

Insight Global; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer III – AI/ML Platforms to design, implement, and mature security across our AWS cloud environment and growing AI/ML ecosystem. You will work across cloud security engineering and security architecture, partnering with cloud, development, data, and AI/ML teams to build security into systems early in the lifecycle.

This senior role requires independent operation, security guardrails, risk assessment, and translating requirements into practical

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across security engineering, cloud security, security architecture, or related security disciplines.
• 3–5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud security experience, ideally securing enterprise AWS environments.
• Strong experience with AWS security services and controls (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, KMS, VPC/security, S3, AWS Organizations).
• Experience across both security architecture and engineering, including designing security controls, establishing guardrails, risk assessment, and secure cloud deployments.
• Experience with enterprise security platforms, firewalls, vulnerability management, threat detection, and remediation.
• Understanding of modern cloud engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Ability to communicate security risks, metrics, and recommendations to technical teams and leadership.
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms or security concepts, including securing data flows, APIs, model access, pipelines, or deployment environments.
• Experience with AWS AI/ML services such as Bedrock and/or SageMaker.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and mature security across AWS cloud environments and AI/ML platforms.
• Collaborate with cloud, development, data, and AI/ML teams to embed security in the development lifecycle.
• Establish guardrails, assess risk, and translate security requirements into practical solutions.
• Operate as a security SME and communicate risks and recommendations to leadership.

Skills

AWS Security

Security Architecture

CI/CD

IaC

Threat Detection

Vulnerability Management

Education

CISSP

AWS Solutions Architect

Security+

Tools

IAM

GuardDuty

CloudTrail

KMS

S3 & Networking

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer III – AI/ML Platforms to design, implement, and mature security across our AWS cloud environment and growing AI/ML ecosystem. You will work across cloud security engineering and security architecture, partnering with cloud, development, data, and AI/ML teams to build security into systems early in the lifecycle.

This senior role requires independent operation, security guardrails, risk assessment, and translating requirements into practical