Cybersecurity Specialist

Trident Consulting is seeking a "Cybersecurity Specialist " for one of our client in Phoenix, AZ. A global leader in business and technology services.

Job Title

Cybersecurity Specialist

Location

Hybrid - Phoenix, AZ

Job Type

Contract

Pay Rate

$55

Primary Responsibilities

• Experience building automation tooling for security or developer efficiency
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, JavaScript, or Bash) and familiarity with a compiled language (Go, Rust, or Java)
• Experience with GitHub automation and API integrations. Conduct research on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technologies to stay updated on the evolving security landscape.
• Develop and maintain security automation tooling to enhance 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
• Strong understanding, experience with OWASP Top10 and industry best practices within Generative AI security.
• Knowledge of agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, custom orchestration)
• Understanding of AI lifecycle management, including model integration, evaluation, and observability
• Demonstrated 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 leading 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.
• Build Secure SDLC agents that embed security across the software lifecycle, including requirements and secure design review, threat modeling, code review, dependency and vulnerability analysis, remediation guidance, pull-request checks, and release/security gates.
• Design agents that securely interact with source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, security scanners, cloud services, internal APIs, and developer tooling while enforcing least privilege, secrets protection, authorization boundaries, auditability, and approval workflows.

About Trident Consulting

Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we've partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.

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