Top Cyber Security Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Oversee and execute information systems security activities for national security systems, including Risk Management Framework implementation and Assessment and Authorization processes. The role requires extensive information systems security experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, DoD 8570 IAM Level 1 certification, and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Lead enterprise security architecture across cloud, application, infrastructure, identity, data, and third-party environments. Develop security principles, standards, patterns, and controls; review designs; conduct threat modeling and risk assessments; guide secure-by-design implementations; and advise technical and business stakeholders. The role also supports regulatory compliance, evaluates security technologies, and strengthens organizational security practices.

Manages cybersecurity compliance and authorization for Air Force NIPR systems. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining system security plans, supporting RMF accreditation, conducting audits and inspections, managing POA&Ms, STIGs, IAVM compliance, continuous monitoring, FISMA requirements, security testing, and ATO activities. The role also provides tactical security guidance, assesses technology risks, and coordinates cybersecurity activities across multi-contractor teams and cloud and on-premises environments.

The VP of Security will lead Engine’s security strategy, engineering, operations, AI security, corporate IT, and enterprise trust. Key priorities include building an AI security function, securing agent identities and AI gateways, leading AppSec, SecOps, and CloudSec, strengthening identity and access controls, managing corporate IT, supporting SOC 2 and PCI controls, and representing security to executives, the board, and enterprise customers.

Design and ship product security improvements covering authentication, authorization, session and token handling, secrets management, third-party access, abuse detection, fraud prevention, and account takeover defense. Threat-model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, build secure developer tooling, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Trust & Safety. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development while balancing security controls with user experience.

Assesses enterprise information security risks, performs vulnerability and security posture assessments, and coordinates remediation across networks, systems, applications, and vendors. Develops security policies and standards aligned with SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and NIST guidance; supports audits, incident response, training, access monitoring, and security projects. Communicates technical risks and corrective actions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders while mentoring teams and managing competing priorities.

The ISSO plans, implements, and maintains the Risk Management Framework for assigned systems; develops security documentation including SSPs, SARs, and POA&Ms; supports the ISSM; collaborates with system owners and security professionals; provides training and briefings; and ensures compliance with DoD and DoN cybersecurity policies.

Lead technical discovery, customized demonstrations, and proofs of value for enterprise CTEM customers. Map vulnerability, asset, ticketing, and remediation workflows; integrate customer tools; prove exposure-management outcomes using customer data; and communicate findings to engineers, CISOs, and executives. Maintain presales deal information, provide product feedback, create reusable demo and POV assets, and expand expertise into third-party risk management and cyber risk quantification.

Perform advanced threat hunting and deep analysis of attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, notify customers of imminent threats, build proof-of-concept hunting tools and automations, synthesize findings into mitigation recommendations, and drive product/tool improvements by transferring threat intelligence and investigation best practices to engineering and customer teams.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Monitor and investigate security alerts, logs, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents. Conduct vulnerability assessments, support penetration testing and cloud security reviews, assist with incident response, recommend remediation, and prepare technical and executive reports. Collaborate with security consultants, engineers, red teamers, and client IT teams while supporting compliance, hardening, patch management, and security monitoring across cloud and enterprise environments.

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.

Manage enterprise and federal cybersecurity compliance programs, audit readiness, continuous monitoring, POA&M remediation, third-party risk, policy governance, documentation, and security training. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders across Security, Engineering, DevOps, IT, GRC, Procurement, and Legal. Maintain compliance plans, evidence, risk registers, control documentation, and audit-ready materials while supporting FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related requirements.

Lead Affirm’s enterprise AI security review program, threat model LLM and agentic systems, review code and configurations, and develop security guardrails, tooling, policies, and monitoring. Evaluate AI-enabled SaaS vendors, identify emerging vulnerabilities, support incident response, and lead cross-functional initiatives across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance. The role requires expertise in AI security architecture, threat modeling, IAM, cloud infrastructure, policy-as-code, and regulated enterprise environments.

Lead application security across the SDLC, partnering with engineering teams on secure architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and cloud services. Conduct manual web application and API testing, improve automated CI/CD security controls, establish secure coding standards, assess third-party risks, support vulnerability management and incident response, and ensure healthcare compliance. The role also develops enterprise-wide security policies and evaluates emerging security technologies.

Build and scale the application security program by integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling into CI/CD pipelines; define Secure SDLC processes and threat modeling practices; manage bug bounty triage and metrics; conduct Java and Python code reviews; deliver secure coding training; develop security champions; and support vulnerability disclosures and security communications.

Supports enterprise cybersecurity and GRC programs through third-party risk assessments, security testing coordination, corrective action tracking, policy development, compliance support, incident response planning, disaster recovery exercises, and enforcement of technical and administrative controls. Partners with engineering, operations, managed security providers, and internal stakeholders to strengthen security posture across cloud and hybrid environments.

Owns company-wide security operations, cloud and infrastructure security, incident response, zero-trust architecture, blockchain treasury controls, compliance, privacy, production reliability, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, represents the company to auditors and customers, and builds security automation across GCP, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Ethereum infrastructure.

Supports cybersecurity engineering for DoD satellite communications systems. Performs RMF accreditation, STIG implementation, vulnerability and risk assessments, IAVM activities, ACAS scanning, remediation planning, system self-assessments, security documentation, and compliance testing. Advises leadership on security posture and threat mitigation while securing network, system, and application environments.

Develops and implements cybersecurity controls for DoD satellite communications systems. Performs risk and vulnerability assessments, STIG validation, IAVM activities, RMF accreditation support, POA&M documentation, compliance self-assessments, vulnerability remediation, and security change reviews. Analyzes ACAS scans, deploys security tools, briefs technical security posture to leadership, and advises on threat mitigation for strategic and tactical communications systems.

Own day-to-day security operations for a complex HPC environment across multiple security domains. Execute RMF activities, maintain authorization artifacts and ATO posture, manage continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, configuration compliance, access governance, and incident response. Review security-relevant changes, support assessments, translate security requirements into implementation guidance, and coordinate with engineering, subcontractor, and customer teams.

Leads security operations for complex government HPC systems, including RMF execution, ATO and reauthorization efforts, continuous monitoring, authorization artifacts, vulnerability remediation, access governance, incident response, and risk reporting. Mentors ISSOs, advises engineering teams, coordinates with customers and subcontractors, and maintains authorization readiness across the system lifecycle.

Designs and secures complex networking, computing, and enclave environments for mission-critical government cybersecurity infrastructure. Responsibilities include integrating information assurance architectures, assessing vulnerabilities and risks, developing mitigation strategies, defining security requirements, establishing trusted system relationships, and embedding security throughout the engineering lifecycle. The role collaborates with government customers, engineers, and architects and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and CISSP certification.

Maintains security and accreditation for classified information systems by enforcing security policies, developing SSPs and authorization documentation, assessing vulnerabilities and system changes, managing security configurations, administering authentication, and coordinating compliance activities with technical teams and government stakeholders. Level 3 personnel also oversee ISSOs and support ISSM responsibilities.