Position: Engineer 5 - Contingent
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 12 + months Contract
Job ID: 177245
Rate- $80/hr - $90/hr on W2
Job Overview: In this contingent resource assignment, you will consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. You will address highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Additionally, you will provide expertise to senior leadership on innovative engineering business solutions and strategically engage with personnel.
Responsibilities: - Perform security architecture reviews and GenAI threat modeling for GenAI and agentic AI platforms and use cases.
- Identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, jailbreak, data leakage, model poisoning, vector or embedding attacks, and third-party model risks.
- Conduct secure architecture reviews for GenAI platforms, including Google Vertex AI, AgentSpace, Copilot Studio, and internal LLM services.
- Define and validate security requirements aligned with OWASP LLM Top 10, OWASP Agentic Application Security, MITRE ATLAS, and internal GenAI security standards.
- Review IAM models, secrets management, API security, and cloud security controls (Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Produce high-quality threat models, architecture review reports, and mitigation recommendations.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to gather architecture artifacts and drive security improvements.
Qualifications: - 7 years of Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 8 years in cybersecurity, security architecture, application security, or threat modeling.
- Hands-on experience conducting threat models, including for GenAI workloads.
- Strong cloud security expertise in Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS.
- Experience securing LLMs, RAG pipelines, API gateways, SaaS GenAI services, or agentic systems.
- Familiarity with GenAI threat mitigations such as prompt filtering, DLP, vector store protection, adversarial input detection, and model hardening.
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical risks into practical guidance.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in regulated industries, with financial services preferred.
- Experience with ThreatModeler or similar tooling.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or cloud provider security certifications.
- Experience with Terraform, Azure/Google Cloud Platform Policies, or OPA/Rego for IaC or PaC workflows.
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