Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Austin, TX

Senior security engineer responsible for developing automation and tooling, building and deploying security solutions, conducting incident response and proactive threat hunting, supporting investigations through data analysis, and advising development teams. Must document solutions, participate in agile teams, mentor juniors, and continuously research evolving security threats.

Lead a team building and operating secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets, PKI, and machine/workload identity. Plan roadmap, review designs and code, participate in implementation, support operations and on-call, and grow team members.

Lead AI security strategy and guardrails, design and review AI gateways and tooling, scale InfoSec review processes, reduce AI-driven security noise, drive remediation and investigations, and mentor security and platform engineers.

Lead and grow a security engineering team to design and operate cloud-native security controls, drive DevSecOps practices, conduct threat modeling and incident response, partner cross-functionally on security roadmaps, and ensure compliance with frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO, etc.). Responsible for vulnerability management, identity and access controls, observability/SIEM, and security automation.

Lead and mentor a small IT security engineering team to deploy and operate enterprise-grade Zero Trust security across networks, endpoints, applications, and cloud. Drive Customer Zero initiatives, manage cross-functional security projects, optimize policies (SSL decryption, segmentation, access control), and serve as an internal subject-matter expert.

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

The Security Engineer will design and implement security controls, enhance security posture, collaborate with IT, and leverage AI tools for cybersecurity. Key responsibilities include managing documentation and leading security initiatives.

Design, develop, and maintain Windows-focused PAM components including services, agents, and RDP handlers. Integrate with Windows APIs, authentication and privilege models, implement secure credential handling and policy enforcement, collaborate with backend teams, perform code reviews, and troubleshoot complex Windows OS and enterprise configurations.

Lead technical discovery and design for enterprise customers, deliver demos and workshops, build architectures and POCs, influence sales strategy and product roadmap, enable partners, and create reference architectures and playbooks to support pre-sales and strategic deployments.