Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Austin, TX

Leads multiple engineering teams delivering customer-facing cybersecurity products. Sets technical direction and strategy, partners with Product Management, mentors engineering managers and engineers, establishes performance metrics, manages cross-organizational projects, hires engineering talent, and drives continuous improvement while fostering an empathetic, results-oriented engineering culture.

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Own and improve Onebrief’s corporate security stack across endpoints, identity, SaaS, browsers, Zero Trust, EDR, SIEM, and MDM. Establish secure configuration baselines, detect and remediate drift, integrate telemetry, and build API-driven or infrastructure-as-code automation. Translate CMMC 2.0 and NIST-aligned requirements into continuously validated technical controls and reliable audit evidence. Partner with Corporate IT, Security Operations, GRC, and application owners to strengthen security posture and reduce manual compliance work.

Applies security best practices to optimize systems, analyzes and resolves security challenges, drives cross-functional security initiatives, and collaborates with engineers to improve security processes and overall organizational security posture.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Leads cybersecurity and site reliability engineering for manufacturing, factory test, server validation, and rack-level environments. Designs secure network architecture, firewall policies, segmentation, access controls, and Zero Trust implementations. Administers Fortinet, Arista, VMware, server, SAN, backup, and disaster recovery infrastructure. Oversees vulnerability management, incident response, compliance, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, production support, and technical mentorship.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Recognized as a senior security expert, this role independently resolves complex cybersecurity challenges, defines methods for new assignments, provides strategic direction, and collaborates across teams. The engineer leads high-impact security projects, develops innovative solutions aligned with business needs, and drives enterprise-wide improvements to security practices and operational efficiency.

Applies security best practices to optimize and protect systems, analyzes and resolves security challenges, partners with internal teams on security initiatives, and collaborates with engineers to improve security processes. The role independently addresses security needs, contributes to cross-functional projects, influences team effectiveness, and aligns security solutions with business objectives.

Lead technical presales engagements for Microsoft security solutions, including Entra, Purview, Defender, and Sentinel. Deliver discovery sessions, demonstrations, whiteboarding, solution designs, and proof-of-concept efforts. Build competitive strategies, resolve technical blockers, guide customer decisions, collaborate with partners and deployment teams, and help existing customers optimize security product usage. Embed governance, security, and compliance into customer engagements while quantifying business value and supporting sales targets.

Leads and develops a team of security solution engineers supporting manufacturing and mobility customers. Oversees technical sales strategy, integrated cloud-to-edge security architecture design, demonstrations, pilots, proofs of concept, standards adoption, capacity planning, and partner alliances. The role requires expertise in cybersecurity, security architecture, cloud and hybrid environments, Zero Trust, threat protection, data protection, and technical pre-sales, along with people management experience.

Leads an engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating data security products and controls. Provides technical direction, hands-on engineering leadership, and delivery ownership across DLP policy, data discovery and classification, data access controls, policy-as-code workflows, automation, integrations, testing, deployment, reliability, and operational support. Translates data security requirements into scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and driving adoption of secure engineering practices.

Lead Prelim’s security program across secure SDLC, application and cloud security, IAM, incident response, endpoint management, vendor risk, security reviews, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Partner with DevOps and engineering, coordinate penetration testing, develop policies and risk roadmaps, manage audits and customer questionnaires, and improve detection and access controls. The role is the company’s first dedicated security hire and requires strong judgment, communication, and hands-on technical skills.

Owns company-wide security across product, infrastructure, corporate systems, and IT. Responsibilities include fixing authentication and authorization issues, managing keys and secrets, hardening internal tools, improving permissions, contributing to backend engineering, and leading security reviews, incident response, and security tooling. This hands-on role requires broad security expertise, strong software engineering ability, and comfort working in an ambiguous early-stage startup environment.

Leads account-level cybersecurity strategies and technical customer engagements for secure cloud, data, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include security architecture, solution design, demonstrations, workshops, pilots, technical validation, AI security guidance, stakeholder orchestration, Microsoft Security platform adoption, and measurable outcomes. The role partners with executives, security teams, Microsoft specialists, engineering, and customers to drive secure deployment, operational improvements, risk reduction, and platform expansion.

Build and operate automated security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic-material lifecycles, security telemetry, compliance automation, policy-as-code, threat modeling, and CI/CD security controls. Develop agentic AI workflows using tools such as Claude Code and MCP integrations. Support incident response, review security architecture, automate evidence collection, and partner with engineering, audit, risk, vendors, and clients to improve security posture at scale.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Microsoft's AI Safety Platform, building observability, detection, investigation, threat-hunting, and distributed data-processing capabilities. Design attack detection infrastructure, correlate high-volume telemetry, apply AI security research, conduct security and privacy reviews, and partner across engineering, science, and incident response teams. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex AI security systems.

Lead enterprise AI security architecture, strategy, governance, and secure-by-design implementation across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, software, and AI/ML environments. Design security patterns for LLM hosting, agentic systems, vector databases, and inference endpoints; translate regulatory requirements into technical standards; review complex architectures; implement AI security guardrails and policy enforcement; advise engineering and product teams; and mentor teams while influencing senior stakeholders.

Lead software security for Cisco’s IT and Enterprise Operations portfolio. The role owns security posture, threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, AI and LLM security, risk-based remediation, security metrics, and release risk reporting. It partners with engineering, product, and IT leadership to drive security outcomes without direct authority, coordinate security subject-matter experts, and reduce security debt across cloud-native applications and enterprise platforms.

Oversee the security of firm applications, networks, systems, hardware, and mobile devices throughout their lifecycles. Develop security requirements and architecture, manage controls and configurations, perform certification and accreditation, maintain asset inventories, and ensure secure development and acquisition practices. Collaborate across departments and mentor team members while serving as a primary technical security contact. The role requires independent judgment, strong analytical ability, knowledge of security frameworks and technologies, and at least seven years of related experience.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise security solutions; operates EDR, SIEM, web application firewall, and vulnerability-scanning tools; advances Zero Trust maturity; integrates security into DevSecOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code processes; addresses vulnerabilities and security gaps; develops security performance dashboards; and validates system designs against requirements.

Manage and lead engineering teams building endpoint security software: define and execute roadmaps, oversee SDLC and ISMS compliance, remove blockers, drive secure coding, coordinate with product and architects, recruit and develop staff, and manage budgets and operations.

Designs and advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.