Cybersecurity Specialist

Trident Consulting • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Trident Consulting is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist for a client described as a global leader in business and technology services. This hybrid contract role is based in Phoenix, Arizona and pays $55 (the pay period is not specified).

The specialist will develop security automation tooling and autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents that embed security throughout the software development lifecycle. The work includes integrating agents with enterprise systems and developer tools, automating design reviews and security checks, and applying appropriate controls for access, secrets, auditability, approvals, and recovery. The role also involves researching emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technologies and applying security best practices to generative AI and agent systems.

Requirements

• Experience building automation tooling for security or developer efficiency.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, JavaScript, or Bash.
• Familiarity with a compiled language: Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience with GitHub automation and API integrations.
• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10 and industry best practices in generative AI security.
• Knowledge of agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom orchestration.
• Understanding of AI lifecycle management, including model integration, evaluation, and observability.
• Senior-level experience designing, building, and productionizing autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents, including planning, tool use, memory/context management, multi-agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop controls, and failure recovery.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding and agent platforms such as Anthropic Claude/Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, including prompt/instruction design, tool integration, API/SDK usage, evaluation, guardrails, and enterprise adoption patterns.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technologies to stay current with the security landscape.
• Develop and maintain security automation tooling to improve visibility, enforce security best practices, and streamline processes.
• Automate secure design reviews and integrate security checks into pull request workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and develop agentic AI systems that autonomously plan, execute, and adapt tasks across complex workflows.
• Integrate agents with enterprise systems, APIs, data sources, and security platforms.
• Build Secure SDLC agents that support requirements and secure design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, dependency and vulnerability analysis, remediation guidance, pull-request checks, and release/security gates.
• Design agents to interact securely with source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, security scanners, cloud services, internal APIs, and developer tooling.
• Enforce least privilege, secrets protection, authorization boundaries, auditability, and approval workflows in agent integrations.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed