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

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer III – AI/ML Platforms to help design, implement, and mature security across its AWS cloud environment and rapidly growing AI/ML ecosystem. This individual will work across both cloud security engineering and security architecture, partnering with cloud, development, data, and AI/ML teams to build security into systems earlier in the development lifecycle.

This is a senior technical role for someone who can operate independently, establish security guardrails, assess vulnerabilities and risk, and translate security requirements into practical solutions for engineering teams. The role will be approximately 50% traditional cloud security and 50% AI/ML-focused security, although deep AI/ML security expertise is not required coming in.

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Skills and Requirements

• 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 with deeper experience securing enterprise AWS environments.
• Strong experience with AWS security services and controls, including IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, KMS, VPC/network security, S3, AWS Organizations, or similar services.
• Experience across both security architecture and engineering, including designing security controls, establishing guardrails, assessing risk, and supporting secure cloud implementations.
• Experience with enterprise security platforms, firewalls, vulnerability management, threat detection, and remediation.
• Understanding of modern cloud engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Ability to operate independently as a security SME and communicate security risks, metrics, and recommendations to both 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 Amazon Bedrock and/or SageMaker.
• AWS Security, CISSP, GSEC, Security+, AWS Solutions Architect, or other relevant security/cloud certifications.
• Experience within a software or technology-driven organization utilizing mature DevSecOps, CI/CD, and IaC practices.