AI Security Architect for Azure & Data Protection

GCS Recruitment Specialists; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking an AI Security Engineer for a 1-year renewable contract in Abu Dhabi. You will engineer and validate security controls for AI/ML services, including Azure AI tools, safeguarding data, identities, models, APIs, and AI infrastructure throughout the lifecycle.

You will assess authentication, RBAC, secret management, and data flows, while implementing guardrails, threat modelling, and AI supply-chain security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including cloud security, application security, or data security, with practical exposure to AI/ML or agentic AI platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Postgraduate qualification in Information/Cyber Security is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and validate security controls for AI/ML and agentic AI services.
• Review Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry/Services, Azure Machine Learning, and approved third-party AI services.
• Assess authentication, authorization, managed identities, service principals, API keys, secrets, network exposure, and rate-limiting controls.
• Implement and validate least-privilege RBAC, private endpoints, firewall rules, network isolation, encryption, and secure secret storage.
• Assess AI data flows for PII/PHI and confidential data exposure across prompts, outputs, RAG repositories, connectors, and training datasets.
• Configure or validate content safety filters, prompt guardrails, custom blocklists, and abuse-prevention controls.
• Test for prompt injection, jailbreaks, insecure output handling, excessive agency, data leakage, model misuse, and integration abuse.
• Review model registry permissions, model/version integrity, dependency provenance, and AI supply-chain security.
• Develop AI-specific logging, monitoring, and detection use cases for anomalous API activity, prompt attacks, privilege misuse, and data exposure.
• Coordinate with AI Governance, Privacy, Legal, Data, Cloud, AppSec, SOC, and business owners.

Skills

Azure security

AI security

CISSP

CCSP

CISM

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity

Postgraduate information/cyber security

Job description

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking an AI Security Engineer for a 1-year renewable contract in Abu Dhabi. You will engineer and validate security controls for AI/ML services, including Azure AI tools, safeguarding data, identities, models, APIs, and AI infrastructure throughout the lifecycle.

You will assess authentication, RBAC, secret management, and data flows, while implementing guardrails, threat modelling, and AI supply-chain security.