Cloud Application Security Engineer
Unisys · Budapest, Hungary · 1mo ago
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 Balance: A hybrid working model with a dedicated Home Office allowance.
- Financial Benefits: Monthly gross 44,200 HUF cafeteria package, regardless of your weekly hours.
- Health & Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance (Generali Premium Package) available after 6 months.
- Growth Culture: Join a supportive, collaborative team with extensive learning and development opportunities.
Ready to take the next step in your career?
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