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AI Security & Resilience Experts - Contract (Outside IR35)

Location: London / Hybrid - 2/3 days onsite
Sector: UK Financial Services
Rate: Competitive Market Rates (Role Dependent)
IR35: Inside
Day rate: up to £600 per day
Length: 9 months



All candidates must demonstrate:
*UK FinServ Compliance: Deep familiarity with DORA, FCA Operational Resilience, and the EU AI Act.

*AWS Bedrock Stack: Hands-on experience with Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and model lifecycles.

*AI/ML Core: Mastery of FMs, RAG, tool-use, and non-deterministic agent logic.

*Security Frameworks: Proficiency in OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF.

Role 1: Identity Expert*Mission: Secure the "Human-to-Agent" and "Agent-to-Resource" identity chain.

*Key Tasks: Lead SPIFFE/SPIRE rollouts with AWS Roles Anywhere; harden OBO (On-Behalf-Of) flows.

*Security: Implement sender-constrained tokens (PoP) and JIT for non-human identities.

*Threats: Modelling for Confused Deputy and Federation Hijacks; ensuring full traceability per EU AI Act Art. 12 & 14.

Role 2: Threat & Adversarial AI Expert*Mission: Lead structured offensive modeling to identify systemic AI vulnerabilities.

*Key Tasks: Conduct STRIDE modeling and build attack trees for prompt injection and "Denial-of-Wallet" scenarios.

*Validation: Run scenario workshops to test real-world control effectiveness.

*Governance: Maintain an adversarial knowledge base and map safeguards to compliance frameworks.

Role 3: AI Evals & Red Teaming Expert*Mission: Automate the "Release Gate" for AI systems through rigorous adversarial testing.

*Key Tasks: Integrate tools like Pyrit, Garak, or AgentDojo into CI/CD pipelines.

*Metrics: Build frameworks for uncertainty, drift detection, and success rates.

*Assurance: Own the AI-BOM and generate Article 15 evidence for bias, hallucination, and memorisation risks

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.