Technology and Data - Engineer 5 - Contingent

Job Title: Engineer 5

Location: Charlotte, NC

Salary Range: $90-$95/hr on W2

Introduction

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 consult on the strategy and resolution of 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. You will provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions and strategically engage with client personnel.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7 years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work or consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5 Years experience as a Security Engineer or Security Architect.
• 1 year experience with GenAI.
• 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, GCP, 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.
• Prior work experience at client or in client's Industry.

Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in regulated industries (financial services preferred).
• Experience with ThreatModeler or similar tooling.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or cloud provider security certifications.
• Experience with Terraform, Azure/GCP Policies, or OPA/Rego for IaC or Client workflows.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Perform security architecture review 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, GCP).
• Produce high quality threat models, architecture review reports, and mitigation recommendations.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to gather architecture artifacts and drive security improvements.

Company Benefits & Culture

• Competitive hourly rate within the specified range.
• Opportunity to work on innovative and large-scale engineering solutions.
• Engagement with senior leadership and strategic initiatives.

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.