Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Leads cybersecurity compliance and authorization activities for classified systems. Conducts security assessments, manages RMF, IATT, and ATO processes, implements NIST 800-53 controls, applies Zero Trust principles, and maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, and related documentation. Coordinates with engineers, system owners, ISSMs, SCAs, and authorizing officials to ensure systems meet security requirements throughout the program lifecycle.

Leads Apollo’s detection and response strategy, detection architecture, security observability, incident response, and AI-assisted security workflows. Builds MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, response automations, investigation tools, and detection-as-code pipelines using Panther and Python. Leads high-severity incidents across cloud, SaaS, and corporate systems; improves IR readiness, metrics, playbooks, and forensic processes. Partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Fraud, and leadership while mentoring engineers and driving multi-quarter security initiatives.

Lead cloud security strategy and hands-on execution across AWS environments. Own CNAPP and CSPM capabilities, improve IAM and container security, build infrastructure-as-code guardrails, conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling, support detection and incident response, and drive remediation programs. Establish a multi-year cloud security roadmap, influence engineering priorities, mentor teammates, and partner with platform, infrastructure, SOC, and product engineering teams.

Leads enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and modernization across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, Azure connectivity, microsegmentation, Zero Trust, SASE, and SD-WAN solutions. Serves as a Level 3 incident escalation point, drives root-cause analysis and resilience improvements, establishes automation and DevSecOps standards, and mentors engineers. Partners with stakeholders and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network security platforms.

Leads the Network Security Engineering and Operations team, overseeing enterprise network security infrastructure, availability, lifecycle management, monitoring, incident response, compliance, risk mitigation, and 24/7 escalation support. Manages engineers, vendors, budgets, strategic projects, and cross-functional initiatives while communicating cybersecurity risks to technical and executive audiences. Drives automation, resilience, continuous improvement, and preventative security practices across sites, datacenters, and cloud environments.

Manage a global 24/7 Security Operations Center, including analyst leadership, shift coverage, operational processes, quality assurance, training, and career development. Improve workflows, playbooks, and service-level performance while collaborating with Product, Support, Tactical Response, Threat Hunting, and Detection Engineering teams. Lead initiatives, track security operations objectives, operationalize new services, and communicate technical concepts to internal stakeholders and external audiences.

Designs, implements, and governs secure AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Defines security standards, IAM strategies, network controls, and guardrails; leads cloud security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments; integrates security into DevOps and CI/CD workflows; evaluates security tooling; supports compliance; and mentors engineering teams. The role also drives cloud security posture improvements, documentation, remediation, and long-term security architecture maturity.

The Security Operations Engineer will build and manage cloud and enterprise security detections, lead incident response and threat hunting, automate security operations with SOAR playbooks, and maintain security telemetry pipelines. The role also involves vulnerability remediation, cloud architecture security reviews, cross-functional collaboration, on-call participation, and continuous improvement of runbooks and alert quality. Candidates need strong AWS security, SIEM, incident response, detection engineering, scripting, attacker tradecraft, and compliance framework experience.

The Senior Application Security Engineer will strengthen Apollo’s secure software development lifecycle through application security reviews, threat modeling, code analysis, vulnerability management, penetration testing, remediation, and AppSec tooling. The role includes developing automation, securing AI-powered features, improving security observability, enabling developers, and partnering across Engineering, Product, Platform, Data, Legal, and Security teams. This senior individual contributor will own long-term AppSec goals, resolve ambiguous risks, and drive cross-functional security improvements.

Own and define IAM strategy for corporate and production environments. Migrate Okta to Terraform, design least-privilege access, automate provisioning/deprovisioning and access reviews, build/manage MDM/MAM tooling, partner with platform and engineering teams, and serve as the IAM subject matter expert across Security, IT, and Engineering.

Own Cleo’s application and product security program across SaaS and customer-hosted products. Lead SSDLC practices, threat modeling, security tooling, vulnerability management, penetration testing, coordinated disclosure, CVE publication, and NIST CSF controls. Define product security standards, roadmap, secure defaults, access controls, and customer-facing advisories. Partner with engineering, product, architecture, and customers while guiding security engineers and consultants. Also establish protections for LLM applications, AI agents, and AI-assisted development workflows.

The Application Security Architect leads secure design and architecture reviews, threat modeling, source-code reviews, and security initiatives across application, cloud, infrastructure, and identity layers. The role develops security architectures and documentation, mentors security and engineering teams, supports AI-assisted product security workflows, and advances security awareness through the Security Champions program. Responsibilities include communicating risks to technical and executive audiences and embedding secure practices throughout software development and deployment.

Build and operate security infrastructure protecting MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing Kubernetes security controls, managing CSPM and workload identity platforms, deploying security controls through Terraform and other IaC tools, and creating monitoring and alerting systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, rollout, and ongoing production reliability.

Build and operate security infrastructure for MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing cloud security controls, workload identity, vulnerability management, Infrastructure-as-Code, runtime threat detection, and monitoring systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through deployment and long-term production reliability.

Lead product security assessments and penetration testing across MongoDB products and cloud environments. Conduct threat modeling, code analysis, architecture reviews, vulnerability verification, and attack research. Use AI and automation to improve assessment workflows, collaborate with engineering teams on remediation and secure coding, and advise on container security and secrets management. Coordinate with red and detection teams while mentoring others and communicating findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Build GitLab code security capabilities spanning dependency analysis, SBOM and lockfile parsing, vulnerability detection, AI-assisted analyzers, and automated dependency remediation. Design evaluation harnesses, package analyzers for CI and AI workflows, improve security report accuracy, and extend ecosystem coverage. Own initiatives from design through delivery, mentor engineers, collaborate across product and engineering teams, document systems, and participate in on-call support.

Lead Runpod’s security organization and own the security posture of its cloud platform, infrastructure, and corporate environments. Responsibilities include security strategy, cloud and application security, SecOps, GRC, compliance certifications, secure software development, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, vendor risk, security automation, and infrastructure security. Build and mentor a distributed security team while partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, GTM, and Legal to protect customer AI workloads and support scalable growth.

Provides security architecture and enablement across SaaS platforms, APIs, custom applications, data integrations, cloud environments, and AI workflows. Partners with product, engineering, data, architecture, identity, infrastructure, enterprise, and procurement teams to conduct threat reviews, develop secure-by-design patterns, assess vendors, implement guardrails, and manage risks. Translates security requirements into practical solutions, supports enterprise data strategy and M&A integration, and mentors teams as a trusted security advisor.

Secure Runpod’s multitenant GPU cloud infrastructure across bare-metal and virtualized environments. Responsibilities include designing workload and network isolation, hardening Linux kernels and container platforms, testing hypervisor and hardware security, developing low-level controls in C, Go, or Rust, securing GPU and PCIe interactions, and responding to infrastructure security incidents with forensic capabilities for ephemeral containers.

Leads cybersecurity governance, RMF implementation, authorization activities, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and DoD compliance for information systems and mission environments. Oversees SSPs, SARs, POA&Ms, security assessments, audits, risk mitigation, and authorization readiness. Coordinates with ISSOs, system owners, engineers, assessors, and government stakeholders while mentoring cybersecurity personnel. Evaluates security risks for cloud, AI, autonomous systems, prototypes, and emerging technologies.

Own Deepgram’s privacy operations, security compliance, audit evidence, control mapping, security questionnaires, policies, and public trust documentation. Lead DPIAs, data-flow mapping, DSAR and deletion workflows, vendor reviews, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits. Partner with Engineering, Legal, Research, and Sales Engineering to verify technical claims, automate evidence collection, maintain accurate documentation, and translate privacy and AI regulations into practical requirements and enablement.

Serves as the primary ISSO for classified, air-gapped federal cloud environments. Manages ATO/RMF documentation, NIST 800-53 controls, DISA STIG compliance, Tenable.sc and Nessus vulnerability scanning, offline content updates, remediation tracking, audit readiness, incident response, and continuous monitoring. Partners with cloud and infrastructure teams to improve secure configurations and automate vulnerability and compliance workflows.

Supports communications and systems engineering programs through cybersecurity risk assessments, vulnerability management, RMF authorization packages, STIG mapping, POA&M development, security documentation, and threat mitigation. The role administers ACAS and HBSS, uses eMASS to manage controls and artifacts, reports security events, briefs leadership, and implements enterprise cybersecurity controls and advanced threat detection capabilities.

Perform information systems security and risk management activities, including vulnerability assessments, STIG mapping, POA&M development, RMF accreditation documentation, vulnerability management, incident reporting, and security control implementation. Use ACAS, HBSS, eMASS, and other security tools to support system authorization and compliance. Communicate technical security risks and mitigation strategies to engineers, teams, and senior leadership.

Designs, tests, implements, and supports secure DoD enterprise networks and boundary security capabilities. Responsibilities include firewall and security appliance support, network security configuration, vulnerability assessment, packet and traffic analysis, interoperability troubleshooting, and secure cloud networking. The role collaborates with customers, vendors, and technical teams, evaluates complex network deployments, develops innovative security solutions, and mentors employees.