Top Cyber Security Jobs in Austin, TX

Perform security impact assessments, provide cybersecurity recommendations aligned with DoD and USCG requirements, participate in security-focused working groups, and guide developers in securely integrating applications with existing on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The role requires secure architecture experience, architectural diagramming, security tool integration, strong communication skills, and collaboration with government and contractor teams on rapid prototypes.

Operate and improve cybersecurity tools and processes across cloud, endpoint, identity, application, email, network, data loss prevention, and vulnerability management environments. Respond to alerts and incidents, manage logging and SIEM telemetry, implement security controls aligned with HITRUST, NIST, CIS, HIPAA, and OWASP, support audits, and develop incident response procedures. Collaborate with a Senior Security Engineer and use AI tools to automate security operations.

Lead security architecture for a secure multi-cluster service mesh platform. Design authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encryption, credential lifecycle, and service-to-service trust. Establish secure development patterns, threat modeling, testing, security quality gates, incident response, vulnerability discovery, and compliance practices. Implement and review Go and gRPC security systems, mentor engineers, guide technical direction, and collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams. Requires international travel to the Middle East and geopolitical hot zones up to 25% annually.

Own security and infrastructure for a fintech payments platform, with security comprising roughly two-thirds of the role. Responsibilities include cloud and application security, IAM, secrets management, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance, privacy, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, backups, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. The role reports to the CTO and will establish the security function as the company’s founding security hire.

Leads global security strategy across manufacturing plant OT/ICS, connected medical products, and application security. Oversees FDA medical device cybersecurity compliance, OT/ICS frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD security, and application security tooling. Builds and develops global security teams, partners with executives and operating companies, maintains enterprise risk frameworks, reports security posture to leadership and committees, and travels internationally to manufacturing, R&D, and plant locations.

Designs and governs enterprise identity security architectures using ServiceNow and Veza. Integrates identity governance, authorization visibility, CMDB, IRM, SecOps, and external identity platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Establishes least-privilege, zero-trust, compliance, and identity governance frameworks for human and non-human identities. Leads architecture workshops, solution reviews, client advisory discussions, delivery oversight, troubleshooting, proposals, and technical mentoring.

Leads the architecture, implementation, integration, automation, testing, and optimization of ServiceNow and Veza identity security solutions. Advises clients on identity governance, authorization visibility, access analytics, compliance, and cybersecurity strategy. Conducts workshops, demonstrations, training, troubleshooting, and technical delivery from discovery through deployment. Develops scripts, applications, dashboards, and workflows while mentoring junior staff and supporting proposals, estimates, and sales opportunities.

Supports implementation, configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and optimization of identity security solutions using ServiceNow and Veza. Responsibilities include identity governance, access certification, authorization visibility, workflow automation, dashboards, troubleshooting, client workshops, documentation, product demonstrations, and cybersecurity program integration. The role also supports proposals, training content, client relationships, and identity security program development. Travel may reach 50% based on client needs.

Architect and engineer multi-tenant SIEM, SOAR, EDR, telemetry, and cloud security platforms for managed security services. Build detection content, automate response workflows, optimize log ingestion, and secure customer connectivity. Lead technical discovery, onboarding, security assessments, remediation planning, escalations, solution design, and customer advisory engagements. Create architectures, runbooks, and documentation while shaping the MSSP technology strategy.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of security controls and monitoring. Drive incident response, vulnerability assessments/pen testing, automation, cloud and network security, SIEM/logging, and cross-team security integration to reduce organizational risk and meet regulatory best practices.

Designs and implements security controls across cloud platforms, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audits infrastructure for weaknesses, develops security and privacy improvements, performs threat modeling, and drives remediation. The role includes software development, infrastructure security, incident containment, and technical security analysis while collaborating with engineering teams in a distributed startup environment.

Conduct internal and external network, web application, API, mobile, cloud, social engineering, and wireless penetration tests. Advise clients on security and compliance, simulate cyberattacks, generate assessment reports, support engagement scoping and remediation, improve testing methodologies, manage escalations, and mentor junior staff while meeting delivery and utilization targets.

Defines enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, security controls, and multi-year roadmaps across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Enterprise, AI platforms, and infrastructure. Leads cloud governance, migration, modernization, FinOps, developer platform management, AI governance, and security architecture initiatives. Advises executives, ensures compliance and risk alignment, drives operational excellence, and mentors architects and engineers.

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.

Assess and reduce security risks across AWS infrastructure, applications, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and AI/LLM integrations. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security reviews, integrating SAST/DAST/SCA tools, hardening cloud and Kubernetes environments, automating security and incident-response workflows, and remediating vulnerabilities from scans and bug bounty programs.

Lead pre-sales security architecture engagements by designing and validating defense-in-depth solutions across hybrid, cloud, application, identity, endpoint, network, and data environments. Conduct security assessments, create remediation roadmaps, integrate security platforms, and support DevSecOps, SOC, detection engineering, incident response, compliance, and risk programs. Collaborate with sales, engineering, clients, and executive stakeholders to communicate technical trade-offs and deliver scalable enterprise security strategies.

Administers and supports enterprise cybersecurity technologies across a nationwide healthcare network. Responsibilities include security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, identity and access management, endpoint and cloud security, system hardening, backup security, security project implementation, documentation, and collaboration with IT, engineering teams, and managed security providers.

Leads enterprise cryptography consulting engagements for executives and security leaders. Responsibilities include cryptographic risk assessments, post-quantum readiness, enterprise key management, HSM strategy, PKI architecture, encryption modernization, crypto-agility design, and migration roadmaps. The role develops governance, policies, standards, and risk-based transformation programs aligned with NIST, ISO, and regulatory requirements. It also includes client presentations, executive advisory, thought leadership, cross-functional coordination, workshops, and mentoring.

Designs, implements, and operates SASE and ZTNA architecture across GCCH and commercial environments. Owns identity-driven access controls, session management, telemetry, compliance mapping, dashboards, and audit evidence. Serves as the senior escalation point for incidents, performs root-cause analysis, integrates device posture and SOAR workflows, develops AI-enabled automations, collaborates with identity, network, compliance, and vendors, and mentors junior engineers.

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.

Owns the company-wide IT and cybersecurity program, including SOC 2 compliance, cloud security, penetration-test remediation, business continuity testing, endpoint management, access controls, onboarding and offboarding, AI security governance, vendor reviews, security training, incident response, and employee IT support. The role partners with engineering, HR, Finance, leadership, auditors, and healthcare customers while managing security across AWS, Heroku, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, GitHub, and related tools.

Build and automate security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic material lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, policy-as-code, compliance monitoring, and incident-response tooling. Develop agentic AI workflows using coding assistants, MCP integrations, and custom harnesses. Apply threat modeling and secure architecture review while partnering with engineering, risk, auditors, vendors, and clients. The role emphasizes production software, cloud-native automation, continuous control monitoring, and eliminating manual security toil.

Build and operate a reliable security platform across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and OpenSearch infrastructure, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and AWS security controls, cross-account and multi-region architecture, Python automation, and agentic AI workflows. The role participates in on-call support, security incident enablement, audit evidence automation, and reliability improvements while collaborating with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams.

Lead enterprise security architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Develop and govern reference architectures, perform architecture reviews, drive remediation, and define security standards for identity, network segmentation, data protection, monitoring, CI/CD, and AI platforms. Partner with engineering teams, support incident response and audits, and ensure secure integration of acquisitions and research/AI workloads.