Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee‑owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 260,000+ associates across 8 states. From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix.

Location: Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)

Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

• Hybrid Flexibility:
  Work remotely when you need focus time and join us onsite for high‑impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.
• Operational Efficiency:
  Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.
• Cutting‑Edge AI Projects:
  Drive innovation in AI platforms, integrating advanced tools and frameworks to solve complex business challenges.
• Empowered Culture:
  We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

• Oversee the deployment and ongoing management of AI and cloud security tools focused on secure configuration, vulnerability management, threat protection, and logging and monitoring.
• Develop requirements and repeatable validation frameworks to enable AI security coverage across teams.
• Identify and assist with remediating vulnerabilities in AI‑based systems such as data leakage, insecure tool use, authentication gaps, and abuse paths.
• Evaluate AI systems for prompt injections (direct, indirect, conditional, and persistent), including risks introduced through retrieval‑augmented generation and agentic workflows.
• Create security automation for response and remediation of compliance findings and hardening of cloud infrastructure and AI solutions.
• Mentor and educate security and delivery teams in effective use and best practices for AI and cloud security tools.
• Serve as an Information Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) by maintaining knowledge of industry‑recognized security technologies and concepts.
• Play a key role in ensuring our cloud capabilities meet PCI/SOX/HIPAA/PII compliance standards.
• Work closely with various teams to provide security consultation, guidance on new cloud products, while refining and enhancing the risk strategy for cloud architecture.
• Engage and foster relationships with security champions on business and cloud teams to understand their needs and evangelize a “shift‑left” Dev Sec Ops  culture.
• Participate in on‑call rotation approximately every ten weeks.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of security experience working with application security, cloud security, and testing or securing AI‑enabled systems, LLM integrations, or agent‑based workflows.
• 2+ years of experience with securing Cloud resources using enterprise tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, and/or Google Security Command Center.
• Experience using AI platforms or AI services and turning AI security findings into actionable guidance.
• Understanding security requirements, best practices, and execution in various cloud implementation scenarios:
  IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Experience with scripting, automation, deployment orchestration, or security configuration management with at least one of the following Terraform, Chef, Puppet, YAML, JSON, Power Shell, BASH, Go, or Python.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containers, container registries, and code repositories, and use of tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub, Azure Dev Ops, etc.
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory security requirements (SOX, PCI, HIPAA).
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers and application teams.

• Continued education including additional or advanced degrees in analytical, technical, or business…