Cloud Application Security Engineer

What success looks like in this role: We are seeking a Cloud Application Security Engineer with a strong background in application and cloud security, vulnerability management, and emerging AI security technologies. The ideal candidate combines hands-on technical expertise with a proactive approach to improving security processes, automation, and risk management across modern cloud environments. Manage the onboarding of applications into Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) platforms, ensuring comprehensive security scanning and early identification of vulnerabilities throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Support and administer Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, including solutions such as SonarQube , Dependency-Track , and similar technologies. Develop, optimize, and maintain AI agents, prompts, and automation scripts to improve security operations by reducing manual effort in areas such as alert enrichment, threat triage, and report generation. Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide leadership with visibility into AI adoption, system performance, security outcomes, and emerging cyber risk trends. Maintain comprehensive documentation covering AI integrations, prompt engineering standards, operational procedures, and security playbooks. Monitor and assess emerging AI security risks , including prompt injection, model manipulation, data leakage, and other threats associated with AI-powered technologies. Support the AI Security Architect in evaluating, piloting, testing, and deploying new AI capabilities and platform enhancements. Analyze, prioritize, and manage vulnerabilities identified across applications and cloud environments, partnering with stakeholders to ensure timely remediation and risk mitigation. Review and assess new software requests from a security perspective, ensuring alignment with organizational security standards, policies, and best practices. Conduct routine and targeted cloud security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities, verify security controls, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Develop, maintain, and communicate cloud security policies, standards, procedures, and governance requirements. Serve as a technical escalation point for security tooling issues and collaborate closely with the Unisys Security Operations Center (SOC) team and other security stakeholders. Work cross-functionally with engineering, architecture, operations, and security teams to strengthen the organization's overall application and cloud security posture. You will be successful in this role if you have: Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or similar, or the equivalent hands-on experience combined with training and certifications. 3-5+ years of application security experience Solid scripting/programming ability (Python, PowerShell, or similar) for building automation and integrations. Experience with API integrations and SOAR playbook development. Engineering experience with cloud identity management systems, preferably with AWS IAM or Azure AD. Working understanding of AI/ML concepts and their practical application to security use cases, including LLMs, agents, and prompt engineering. Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud security tooling. Proven experience of handling cloud security incidents. Have conducted cloud security audits, compliance assessments, and creating recommendations for improving security posture. Handling event streams in cloud platforms or workloads and have worked on automation that ingested or processed these events. Communicate effectively with developers, project teams, technical and business owners the security risks and remediation strategies appropriate for an application. Strong organizational skills and time management capabilities. What’s in it for you? Work-Life