Overview
In this role you design and operationalize cloud security guardrails and AI security enablement, partnering with engineering teams to embed secure practices across cloud and AI workloads. You translate standards into practical patterns, automate controls, and create developer-facing guidance to accelerate secure delivery. You will bridge Security Architecture, BISO/AppSec, Cloud/Platform Engineering, and GRC to reduce manual work and improve consistency. The role combines hands-on security engineering with AI-enabled workflows to scale secure innovation.
Pay / Benefits
- generous holiday allowance
- life assurance
- contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reusable cloud security guardrails for identity, logging, encryption, network segmentation, secrets management, storage, workloads, containers, serverless services, and data protection
- Translate security architecture standards into deployable cloud patterns, templates, and engineering-ready requirements
- Partner with cloud, platform, DevOps, and product engineering teams to embed security controls into landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, IaC workflows, and operational processes
- Support CSPM, CNAPP, cloud workload protection, IaC scanning, secrets scanning, and related cloud security tooling
- Develop policy-as-code and control-as-code mechanisms to prevent and report misconfigurations
- Support cloud-native vulnerability and misconfiguration remediation with prioritization logic and reusable fix patterns
- Establish cloud security metrics and dashboards to track adoption, trends, and remediation progress
- Design and maintain AI-assisted workflows for security intake triage, threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk statements
- Build prompt libraries, review rubrics, validation steps, and human-in-the-loop processes for approved AI use within Information Security
- Identify repetitive BISO, AppSec, and Security Architecture tasks that can be accelerated via AI-assisted processes
- Partner with GRC, Legal, Privacy, and security leadership to ensure auditable, explainable AI workflows
- Measure effectiveness of AI-assisted workflows (time saved, consistency, review quality, reduced manual work)
- Define secure design patterns for AI-enabled applications and AI workloads, including AI agents and APIs
- Create developer-facing guidance for safe use of AI tools and data in collaboration with BISO/AppSec
- Convert recurring questions into self-service guidance and templates
- Build and maintain a library of approved cloud and AI security patterns for reuse
- Embed approved security decisions into tooling, templates, and standard delivery workflows
Key requirements
- Experience in machine learning engineering
- Strong experience in cloud security engineering, application security, security architecture, DevSecOps, or security automation
- Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure
- Practical knowledge of IAM, logging, encryption, secrets management, network security, storage security, vulnerability management, and secure CI/CD
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud security tooling (CSPM, CNAPP, IaC scanning, SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, policy-as-code)
- Ability to translate security standards and architecture requirements into practical implementation patterns
- Familiarity with generative AI, LLM-enabled applications, or AI-assisted development or AI security risks
- Strong scripting, automation, workflow design, or tooling integration
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create clear security guidance for engineering teams
- Collaborative and cross-functional mindset
- Pragmatic problem solver
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- CSPM
- CNAPP
- IaC scanning
Senior Cloud & AI Security Enablement Engineer in London employer: RELX Group
At ICIS, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters curiosity and creativity. Our London-based team thrives in a fast-paced environment, providing ample opportunities for professional growth and the chance to become a recognised expert in the evolving energy market. With a commitment to employee well-being and a range of country-specific benefits, we ensure our staff are supported in their pursuit of meaningful and rewarding careers.
