Senior AI Security Engineer - AWS or Azure

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.
The Senior AI Security Engineer will work directly with teams building generative AI and agentic AI applications. The consultant will be responsible for identifying, testing, and remediating security risks before AI applications and agents are deployed. This position requires strong, hands-on AI security experience within either AWS Bedrock or Microsoft Azure. The engineer will evaluate whether AI systems can be manipulated, expose sensitive information, access unauthorized resources, misuse connected tools, or behave abnormally.
Responsibilities:

• Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security testing for generative AI, LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions
• Identify and remediate prompt injection, jailbreak, sensitive-data exposure, unauthorized-access, and tool-misuse risks
• Secure AI agents, APIs, tool-calling capabilities, orchestration frameworks, and external integrations
• Implement AI guardrails, access controls, secrets management, monitoring, and detection capabilities
• Validate that AI applications and agents operate within their approved permissions and security boundaries
• Test applications for malicious manipulation and abnormal AI behavior
• Partner with AI engineers, application developers, cloud teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders
• Integrate security requirements into the architecture, development, testing, and deployment lifecycle
• Recommend practical remediation solutions and confirm that vulnerabilities have been addressed
• Support the development of secure patterns and controls for enterprise AI implementations

Requirements:

• 10+ years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience
• Strong, hands-on security experience with at least one of the following:
  • AWS, including Amazon Bedrock security; or
  • Microsoft Azure, including Azure AI security
• Experience securing generative AI, LLM, RAG, or agentic AI systems
• Strong understanding of prompt injection, jailbreak attacks, data leakage, AI guardrails, and agent/tool-use security
• Knowledge of AI agents, RAG, tool calling, agent orchestration, and supporting architectures
• Experience with threat modeling, security testing, architecture reviews, and secure SDLC practices
• Cloud-native security experience, including identity and access management, secrets management, secure integrations, and monitoring
• Ability to implement, test, and validate technical security controls
• Ability to collaborate directly with engineering teams and provide actionable remediation guidance
• Must be a hands-on security engineer rather than someone primarily focused on policy or governance

Desired skills:

• Security experience across both AWS and Azure
• Experience securing enterprise AI applications in highly regulated environments
• Familiarity with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, and AI-specific monitoring tools

Pay range: $89.00 - $99.00 per hour
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.