Lead Information Security Engineer - Cyber Defense
Fifth Third Bank2 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$82k - $173k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, integrate, deploy, and maintain detection, response, threat intelligence, cloud-native, and AI-enabled applications and platforms.
- Provide lead-level review and approval of application, infrastructure-as-code, containerized, serverless, and AI-enabled code changes.
- Build and maintain AI engineering harnesses and supporting AWS services, including tooling, controls, observability, and integrations.
- Engineer and support Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS workloads, including deployment, configuration, scaling, networking, observability, reliability, and security.
- Apply software engineering practices including testing, code review, secure development, automated delivery, troubleshooting, and validation of AI-generated artifacts.
- Support information security standards, procedures, guidelines, audits, regulatory examinations, and operational security responsibilities.
- Mentor colleagues and communicate technical concepts to management, business and IT sponsors, and technical teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 4 years of related experience, including at least 2 years in hands-on Information Security Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Developer roles.
- Production-quality software, tooling, automation, or service development experience in one or more languages such as Python or Go.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS services, cloud networking, identity, security, compute, storage, observability, and cloud-based workloads.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, automated delivery, and repeatable auditable cloud environments.
- Experience building, securing, troubleshooting, and operating containerized applications using Docker or equivalent technologies.
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience, especially hands-on Amazon EKS experience, is strongly preferred.
- Experience building or supporting applications using foundation models, AI agents, or AI engineering frameworks is strongly preferred; Amazon Bedrock experience is particularly valuable.
- Knowledge of information security tools and technologies such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and XDR.
- Experience building and integrating solutions across on-premises, hybrid, or cloud environments and troubleshooting Unix/Linux systems.
- Understanding of engineering controls for AI-enabled systems, including model access, tool integration, permissions, data protection, observability, evaluation, testing, human oversight, and AI-generated code controls.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, CCSP, or equivalent certifications are preferred; financial industry experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Virtual position based in Ohio.
- Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being for employees and families.
- Eligibility for an incentive compensation plan based on company, business-line, and individual performance.
About Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a regional U.S. financial institution providing commercial and retail banking, consumer lending, credit cards, mortgages, and wealth and asset management to individuals and businesses. It earns interest and fee income from deposits, loans, payments, and investment services delivered through branches, digital channels, and advisors. Founded in 1858 and headquartered in Cincinnati, it is publicly traded as Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) with a broad footprint across the Midwest and Southeast.