SME - IT security

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Assess and threat-model Agentic AI systems, LLM applications, and autonomous workflows; conduct AI red-team exercises across agents, models, prompts, tools, and integrations.
• Develop security controls, governance frameworks, and operational guardrails; evaluate prompt injection, jailbreak, model manipulation, and data leakage risks.
• Secure agent orchestration frameworks, APIs, and AI integrations in collaboration with AI engineering teams.
• Support security monitoring, incident response, and risk mitigation for AI-enabled solutions.
• Advise on secure deployment, operation, and maintenance of enterprise AI platforms; contribute to AI security strategy and secure adoption.

Required qualifications

• Strong expertise in Agentic AI Security Engineering and AI security architecture; deep understanding of LLM security, foundation model risks, hardening, and AI attack vectors.
• Experience in AI red teaming, adversarial testing, threat modelling, and security assessments.
• Knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI, policy controls, security guardrails, and Security Data Science techniques.
• Understanding of cloud security, application security, identity management, APIs, and enterprise security architectures.
• CISSP or equivalent cybersecurity certification and CCSP or equivalent cloud security certification are required.
• Demonstrated AI Security, Cyber Security Engineering, or Security Architecture experience, including enterprise AI, machine learning, or cloud environments.

Additional and preferred qualifications

• CEH, OSCP, Microsoft SC-100, Microsoft AZ-500, AWS or Google cloud security certifications are good to have.
• Related GIAC, generative AI, responsible AI, AI governance, machine learning security, or AI risk management certifications are good to have.
• Experience with AI agents, tool-calling architectures, retrieval systems, and multi-agent ecosystems is beneficial.
• Knowledge of emerging AI security standards, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI frameworks is advantageous.

Role details

• The description lists the role location as UK / Offshore and gives a duration of 10 months.