INTRODUCTION

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

The successful candidate combines hands-on software engineering with cybersecurity and cloud architecture experience to implement production-quality solutions and help clients build resilient AI platforms with security embedded throughout the technology lifecycle. At Deloitte, you will have opportunities to deepen your expertise across AI engineering, cloud security, secure software development, cybersecurity architecture, and emerging technology through technical learning, mentoring, communities of practice, and hands-on delivery.

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

WORK YOU'LL DO

As an AI Cloud Security Engineer, 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; applying AI Zero Trust principles across models, agents, tools, application programming interfaces (APIs), data, cloud workloads, development pipelines, and runtime environments
• Embedding security throughout the AI software development lifecycle, including threat modeling, security gates, model and prompt versioning, evaluation datasets, approval workflows, release criteria, and AI-specific security testing; using AI coding tools with human review and secure engineering controls
• 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, policy-as-code controls, and automated remediation
• Building AI-assisted threat and vulnerability management capabilities that identify, analyze, prioritize, test, and remediate issues across code, applications, APIs, cloud configurations, infrastructure, containers, dependencies, and AI workloads; implementing human approval and validation before high-impact remediation is deployed
• Developing production AI security applications and platforms using full-stack engineering, including 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
• Collaborating with client engineering, security, product, data, risk, architecture, and executive stakeholders to lead discovery, technical workshops, architecture sessions, design reviews, solution delivery, production deployment, and operational handoff; producing reference architectures, patterns, standards, playbooks, and accelerators

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

THE TEAM

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 in how technology is built and operated.

This future-focused engineering capability brings together 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• 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
• 2+ years of professional experience in software engineering, AI engineering, cybersecurity, cloud security, application security, or technology consulting, including delivery of production solutions through design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Hands-on experience with 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.

Preferred:

• Experience securing Anthropic Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, or Vertex AI in production environments
• 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 building applications with React, Next.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 with 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, or delivering AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or application security solutions for financial services or healthcare organizations

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 $82,600 to $162,800.

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.

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