Senior AI Security Engineer – AWS or Azure

Genesis10 • Charlotte, NC

22d • Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution. This role involves working directly with teams developing generative AI and agentic AI applications, focusing on identifying, testing, and remediating security risks before deployment. The position requires strong, hands-on AI security experience in either AWS Bedrock or Microsoft Azure. The engineer will assess AI systems for potential manipulation, sensitive data exposure, unauthorized resource access, tool misuse, and abnormal behavior.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed