Senior Lead Information Security Engineer - Cloud & AI

Fifth Third Bank; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to drive cloud-native security and AI-enabled engineering within an agile squad in Ohio. You will lead the design and implementation of detection, response, and threat intel capabilities, partnering with cloud, software, and security teams to deliver scalable safeguards.

This role emphasizes Infrastructure-as-Code, containerized workloads in AWS (EKS), and automated tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent
• 4+ years in hands-on Information Security Engineering, Software/SRE/DevOps roles
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) experience
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering and AI foundations

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and enhance detection, response, and intel-related platforms in cloud-native environments
• Provide lead-level engineering review of code changes across apps, IaC, containers, serverless and AI workloads
• Build and maintain AI engineering harnesses and AWS-based tooling and observability
• Engineer and support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS
• Apply secure development practices, CI/CD integration, testing, and audit readiness
• Support regulatory and internal audits with technical inputs
• Continue cross-skilling in security, cloud, software engineering, and AI technologies
• Mentor team members and promote modern software engineering practices

Skills

Python

Go

AI tooling

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Splunk

SIEM

Job description

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to drive cloud-native security and AI-enabled engineering within an agile squad in Ohio. You will lead the design and implementation of detection, response, and threat intel capabilities, partnering with cloud, software, and security teams to deliver scalable safeguards.

This role emphasizes Infrastructure-as-Code, containerized workloads in AWS (EKS), and automated tooling.