Top Cyber Security Jobs in Buffalo, NY

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Lead Microsoft's global Security partner strategy to accelerate customer adoption, consumption, and value realization via partner-led motions. Drive strategy, analytics, governance, partner readiness, and cross-functional alignment; generate insights from partner and product data; manage strategic programs and stakeholder communications; mentor team members and continuously optimize partner ecosystem performance.

Manages enterprise information security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. Develops security policies and frameworks, leads data classification and threat modeling, conducts risk assessments, oversees vulnerability remediation, evaluates security controls, supports audits, and prepares risk metrics and executive reports. Partners with technical teams to embed security requirements and promotes governance best practices across the organization.

Defines and executes enterprise security strategy, roadmaps, governance, and high-priority initiatives. Leads security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, and systemic remediation across products, platforms, and business operations. Influences cross-functional teams without direct authority, establishes secure practices and measurable outcomes, evaluates business and operational tradeoffs, and develops automation, analytics, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve security reviews and risk reduction.

Protect Air Force modernization efforts by assessing legacy and modernized applications, conducting security audits and risk analyses, implementing RMF, ATO, and cATO processes, authoring security controls and authorization evidence, researching emerging threats, and coaching government engineering teams on secure software development and compliance.

Define and drive Security Operations strategy at the intersection of Identity and AI. Analyze IAM and AI roadmaps, perform threat modeling, build security frameworks for AI-enabled systems and agentic workloads, identify capability gaps, incubate new security approaches, and partner with engineering and security teams to influence long-term direction and operational readiness.

Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect driving security transformation on Azure and Microsoft 365. Design and implement security architectures (Identity, Threat Protection, Cloud Security), run design sessions, perform hands-on evaluations of Defender, Sentinel, and Azure AD, and influence product and engineering teams to improve customer security posture and adoption.

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.

Own security partnerships for Customer Service and Creative Technology. Advise on GenAI and GenMedia security, customer data environments, cloud infrastructure, third-party tools, training data governance, and risk treatment. Build business risk profiles, drive remediation, report security posture, and support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries.

Leads and matures the information security assurance program across governance, control frameworks, audits, regulatory response, PCI DSS, third-party risk, policy governance, security awareness, automation, and executive reporting. Manages a multidisciplinary team, oversees GRC platform operations, improves control testing and evidence collection, and partners with business, technology, regulators, auditors, and senior leadership to strengthen security posture and compliance.

The Security Compliance Analyst manages cybersecurity, data privacy, classification, retention, governance, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and ATO documentation. Responsibilities include monitoring cloud environments and system logs, using SIEM tools, analyzing security risks, supporting security policies, reporting incidents, and ensuring compliance throughout the system lifecycle. The role also collaborates with Agile teams and stakeholders to protect sensitive data and resolve information assurance issues.

Leads enterprise security architecture for commercial banking and payments, developing secure, scalable strategies across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, and security platforms. Establishes architecture standards and reference patterns, embeds security into software development and CI/CD, advises on regulatory and risk requirements, and guides cloud modernization, identity, API, container, and data security initiatives. Partners with architects, engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, business, and executive stakeholders to influence technology decisions in a highly matrixed organization.

Designs and operates controlled cyber-capability evaluations for frontier AI models and agentic systems. Builds vulnerable applications, cyber ranges, exploit-development targets, and evaluation harnesses; runs experiments; collects telemetry; analyzes model behavior and evaluation artifacts; and documents security findings. The role also develops sandboxing, containment, access, and secrets-management controls while collaborating with red-team operators, researchers, engineers, and Responsible AI stakeholders.

Lead Uber’s highest-severity security incidents from escalation through containment, recovery, and remediation. Command response teams, make high-consequence decisions, investigate logs and system data, brief executives, conduct post-incident analysis, mentor responders, and improve incident response through simulations, threat modeling, automation, and AI-assisted tooling.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Leads Forward’s application and product security program, including a team of senior engineers, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure SDLC practices, and AI security. Owns testing standards, remediation workflows, exposure controls, pre-production security reviews, and security services. Partners with Engineering and executives to communicate risk and priorities while securing web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-built software.

Secure LLMs, generative AI systems, ML infrastructure, training pipelines, and AI applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture reviews, security controls, hardening, vulnerability remediation, data privacy, incident response runbooks, vendor reviews, governance, policy development, and AI security training. The role also supports proof-of-concept security solutions and monitors emerging AI threats.

Lead application security engineering across the SDLC using AI-assisted threat modeling, automated security testing, vulnerability prioritization, and secure-by-default controls. Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and AI platform teams to secure applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, and AI/ML systems. Build security automation, CI/CD controls, policy-as-code guardrails, developer enablement, and proactive defenses against emerging threats such as prompt injection and data poisoning.

Design and lead secure AI security solutions for enterprise customers across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Conduct technical discovery, architect integrations spanning AI systems, LLM applications, data pipelines, model layers, and runtime environments, and support presales validations and implementations. Serve as a technical advisor to CISOs and security leaders while partnering with Sales, Product, and R&D to guide deployments, resolve escalations, and influence product strategy.

Designs, builds, operates, and integrates workforce identity and access management solutions for employees, contractors, and partners. Responsibilities include federated authentication, provisioning and deprovisioning, identity governance, compliance, access management, vendor integrations, acquisition-related migrations, solution rollout, and cloud-based service operation. The role requires hands-on IAM expertise, strong communication, programming familiarity, CI/CD experience, and AWS experience.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security engineering, designing scalable cloud platforms and secure AI applications. Responsibilities include protecting models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs; securing the AI/ML lifecycle; implementing identity, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, and incident response; and establishing engineering standards. The role mentors engineers, influences architecture and technology strategy, and partners with governance, risk, compliance, and business teams to support responsible AI adoption.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise browser data protection and security. Owns architecture, roadmap, standards, lifecycle, browser-based DLP controls, integrations, automation, and operational support. Leads complex troubleshooting, major incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook development, and continuous improvement. Partners across cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, risk, compliance, and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise security design.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security strategy, building secure cloud-native platforms and protecting AI models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs. Designs controls for identity, access, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, governance, and incident response. Provides distinguished technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and partners across architecture, security, governance, risk, compliance, and business teams.

Own AWS cloud security posture and vulnerability management using Wiz and AWS-native services. Build Infrastructure as Code guardrails, secure CI/CD pipelines, automate vulnerability workflows, and operate WAF protections. Partner with DevOps and engineering on IAM, network segmentation, containers, secrets, data exposure, telemetry, threat modeling, and application security. Drive projects independently while reducing organizational risk.

Staff Security Engineer partners with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to embed security into application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD processes. Responsibilities include secure design and code review, vulnerability remediation, AWS cloud security, WAF tuning, security automation in Python, SIEM and log pipeline contributions, endpoint controls, and security standards. The role requires deep expertise in application security, cloud security, or security automation, plus threat modeling and independent project ownership.