Cyber - AI Cloud Security Engineer - Senior Consultant - - 370525

Deloitte is seeking an AI Cloud Security Engineer, Senior Consultant to design, build, and secure -generation AI-enabled products, platforms, and cloud environments. This engineering-focused Senior Consultant role combines artificial intelligence (AI) security architecture, AI Zero Trust, secure AI software development, cloud security engineering, and AI-enabled vulnerability discovery and remediation.

You will apply hands-on software engineering, cybersecurity, and cloud architecture experience to lead delivery of production-quality solutions that help clients build resilient AI platforms and embed security throughout the technology lifecycle.

Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.

As an AI Cloud Security Engineer, Senior Consultant on the Cyber and Cloud Security team, you will be responsible for:

Designing secure architectures for generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model-serving, and AI-enabled enterprise applications; defining security boundaries and applying AI Zero Trust controls across models, agents, tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), data, cloud workloads, development pipelines, and runtime environments

Embedding security across the AI software development lifecycle through threat modeling, security gates, model and prompt versioning, evaluation datasets, approval workflows, release criteria, and testing for prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe tool use, model abuse, and policy violations

Designing and implementing secure AI workloads across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid environments, including cloud landing zones, network isolation, private connectivity, logging, encryption, key management, data protection, containers, serverless workloads, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code controls

Building AI-assisted capabilities to identify, analyze, prioritize, test, and remediate vulnerabilities across code, applications, APIs, cloud configurations, infrastructure, dependencies, containers, and AI workloads; implementing human approval and validation before high-impact remediation is deployed

Developing production AI security applications and platforms using user experiences, APIs, backend services, microservices, event-driven workflows, RAG, model integrations, observability, and unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, and AI evaluation testing

Leading client discovery, architecture sessions, technical workshops, design reviews, deployment, and operational handoff; creating reusable reference architectures, technical standards, playbooks, and accelerators; mentoring engineers and contributing to practice development

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

Ability to lead projects or workstreams

Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

Ability to meet deadlines

Ability to provide clear guidance to others

Deloitte’s Cyber and Cloud Security teams help organizations adopt emerging technologies securely and at scale. Our professionals work across security architecture, cloud engineering, application security, AI, risk, and technology transformation to help clients design resilient platforms and embed security into how technology is built and operated.

This future-focused engineering capability operates at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and software delivery. The team builds reusable platforms, accelerators, reference architectures, and implementation patterns that help clients secure AI innovation from design through production.

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering; equivalent professional work experience in software engineering, AI engineering, cybersecurity, cloud security, application security, or technology consulting may be considered in lieu of a degree

3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, AI engineering, cybersecurity, cloud security, application security, or technology consulting, including hands-on experience designing and implementing software, AI, cloud security, or cybersecurity solutions

Hands-on experience using at least one of the following AI platforms: Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, or Vertex AI

Experience designing or implementing cloud security architecture, secure application development, development, security, and operations (DevSecOps), infrastructure security, or AI security controls

Experience developing and deploying APIs, database-backed services, distributed systems, or cloud applications using Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, or Java, including automated testing, deployment, and observability

Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Production experience securing Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, or Vertex AI

Experience designing AI Zero Trust architectures or implementing security controls for models, agents, tools, data, and AI runtime environments

Experience conducting AI red teaming, adversarial testing, model evaluation, prompt security testing, RAG security testing, or responsible AI control testing

Experience developing applications using React, .js, Node.js, FastAPI, GraphQL, Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, microservices, or event-driven systems

Experience implementing policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code security, or automated remediation using Terraform, Open Policy Agent, Checkov, tfsec, Kyverno, static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), software composition analysis, secrets scanning, or container security tools

Experience securing Kubernetes, containers, serverless platforms, cloud-native applications, or software supply chains

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,400 to $207,800.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.