Top Cyber Security Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Owns company-wide security across product, infrastructure, corporate systems, and IT. Responsibilities include fixing authentication and authorization issues, managing keys and secrets, hardening internal tools, improving permissions, contributing to backend engineering, and leading security reviews, incident response, and security tooling. This hands-on role requires broad security expertise, strong software engineering ability, and comfort working in an ambiguous early-stage startup environment.

Owns Microsoft’s Security Compete Program, developing competitive strategy, battlecards, positioning, and objection-handling guidance for AI security offerings. Provides deal coaching, analyzes competitive wins and losses, tracks performance metrics, gathers field intelligence, and delivers executive reporting. Partners across sales, marketing, engineering, product, and regional teams to improve go-to-market execution, strengthen competitive differentiation, accelerate strategic deals, and influence product and field-readiness decisions.

Lead end-to-end red team and adversary emulation operations across cloud, identity, network, endpoint, hardware, and operational environments. Develop offensive tooling, implants, and tradecraft; direct AI-driven autonomous agents; discover and exploit vulnerabilities; brief executive customers; provide defensive guidance; collaborate with threat intelligence and blue teams; establish operational standards; and mentor security operators.

Manage security operations and lead a security engineering team defending endpoints, SaaS, infrastructure, and corporate systems. Serve as senior Incident Commander, oversee detection and response using CrowdStrike, conduct cybersecurity risk assessments, and improve vulnerability, patch, access, and configuration management. Build detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud signals while partnering with AppSec and technical leaders. Lead the company’s AI security strategy and develop specialized security capabilities.

Conduct third-party security assessments, evaluate vendor controls, document risk findings, and automate governance workflows using Python and coding tools. Configure integrations across ticketing, GRC, and vendor-management platforms; develop risk dashboards and reporting; and partner with Procurement, Legal, Engineering, IT, Compliance, and Privacy. The role also supports security governance process improvements and applies frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS.

Build and operate automated security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic-material lifecycles, security telemetry, compliance automation, policy-as-code, threat modeling, and CI/CD security controls. Develop agentic AI workflows using tools such as Claude Code and MCP integrations. Support incident response, review security architecture, automate evidence collection, and partner with engineering, audit, risk, vendors, and clients to improve security posture at scale.

Build and operate reliable security infrastructure across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and log analytics, OpenSearch, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and EKS security, cross-account cloud infrastructure, Python automation, AI-assisted engineering workflows, compliance evidence collection, incident support, and on-call operations. The role partners with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams to automate manual processes and improve platform resilience.

Leads OT network security engineering across manufacturing sites, translating enterprise architecture into segmentation, firewall, DMZ, access-control, and remote-access implementations. Coordinates production-sensitive cutovers with plant, IT, and safety teams while protecting manufacturing operations. Develops site-specific designs, compensating controls, implementation playbooks, and network documentation. Requires deep ICS expertise, knowledge of industrial protocols and security standards, and 10+ years of OT or industrial network security experience.

Design, build, deploy, and operate enterprise security controls as software products. Develop production code, APIs, backend services, and scalable cloud-based distributed systems while integrating security capabilities into development platforms. Apply test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, and agile practices. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, evaluate emerging technologies, and improve security, reliability, adoption, and developer experience.

Build, integrate, and operate cloud-native security controls across infrastructure, data platforms, applications, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise services. Develop CSPM and DLP capabilities, detection logic, automation, and incident-response mechanisms. Integrate controls with SIEM platforms, apply infrastructure-as-code and automated testing practices, and support reliable production operations. Collaborate with platform, application, and product teams to improve cloud security effectiveness and developer adoption.

Lead cybersecurity governance, risk assessments, compliance, and Authorization to Operate efforts for applications, products, and cloud environments. Identify vulnerabilities, manage POA&Ms, assess security controls, support continuous monitoring, coordinate audits, and ensure compliance with federal cybersecurity mandates and RMF requirements. Collaborate with stakeholders and security engineering teams across IAM, SaaS, enterprise IT, and cloud platforms, while leading multidisciplinary efforts in federal environments.

Leads governance, risk, and compliance engagements for clients, including vCISO accounts. Develops security roadmaps, conducts maturity and risk assessments, governs incident response and policies, supports audit readiness, advises on budgets, delivers executive communications, and mentors security advisory staff.

Executes and helps define the information security strategy by leading risk assessments, audits, control testing, policy development, business continuity planning, vendor risk reviews, incident response, and remediation tracking. The role aligns security programs with CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 frameworks, maintains risk and compliance reporting, and mentors junior security staff while partnering with global business and IT leaders.

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.

Lead and develop the Security team while owning the company-wide security and compliance program. Responsibilities include managing SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, audits, policies, vendor risk, security awareness, and customer security communications. The role also provides technical direction for security tooling, cloud security, identity and access management, application security, vulnerability management, architecture reviews, and threat modeling.

Operate and improve security across cloud, endpoint, identity, SaaS, and corporate environments. Responsibilities include 24/7 alert triage, incident investigation and containment, threat hunting, phishing and fraud analysis, vulnerability management, evidence collection, and incident reporting. The role also engineers security-tool integrations and SOAR automation, supports PCI DSS and SOC 2 audits, maintains security posture, and communicates risks and remediation guidance to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Implements and supports security data ingestion pipelines across applications, cloud services, infrastructure, security tools, and business systems. Develops transformations, parsing, normalization, enrichment, masking, validation, and delivery workflows. Troubleshoots data quality and pipeline issues, documents architectures and data flows, coordinates with client stakeholders, and supports SIEM, detection, investigation, observability, and automation use cases. Requires data engineering experience, scripting, query languages, integration knowledge, and strong client communication.

Leads enterprise data protection initiatives, including data classification, DLP policy management, eDiscovery support, insider threat investigations, and data governance. Uses behavioral analytics, audit logs, SIEM, UEBA, and forensic tools to identify misuse and leakage. Develops security controls, incident response playbooks, and compliance updates while collaborating with Legal, HR, and Compliance. Participates in threat-hunting and red, blue, and purple team exercises. Requires five-plus years of relevant experience and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Lead remediation of MQ security vulnerabilities on mainframe systems for a regulated financial services client. Design and implement Broadcom Top Secret access controls, security patterns, and governance across batch processing, CICS, user permissions, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with mainframe and MQ engineers, document security standards, and complete audit remediation within strict deadlines.

Lead product security initiatives for cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture reviews, identifying systemic weaknesses, developing secure-by-design guidance and reference architectures, advising engineering and product leaders, leveraging AI and automation for scalable security assessments, investigating emerging attack paths, mentoring teams, and improving security review methodologies and tooling.

Leads and develops an engineering team building and operating cloud security controls as software products. Provides technical direction through architecture, design, and code reviews; owns production reliability and continuous improvement; translates security risks into automated, scalable solutions; and coordinates roadmaps and dependencies with product, platform, application, and security teams. The role also drives agile delivery, secure engineering practices, mentoring, and adoption of reusable cloud security patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Lead end-to-end Application Security product and program: set strategy, prioritize roadmap, ship AI-powered threat modeling and code-evaluation surfaces, enable secure-by-design SDLC, enforce CI/CD gates, drive vulnerability prioritization/remediation, establish governance and metrics, and align security initiatives with engineering and executive stakeholders.

Lead complex cloud, identity, supply-chain, and nation-state security investigations. Perform root-cause analysis, threat hunting, blast-radius assessment, attribution, and incident response across Microsoft telemetry. Operationalize intelligence into queries, detections, playbooks, and platform fixes; investigate adversary tradecraft; use AI-assisted tooling; produce executive-ready reports; and mentor peers in advanced investigations, forensics, and reverse engineering.

The Information Security Analyst will manage security operations, penetration testing, antivirus and SIEM tools, security assessments, AI-system risk evaluations, business continuity improvements, and compliance frameworks including SOC 2, NIST, and CJIS. The role also delivers security training, evaluates vendors, responds to security questionnaires and RFPs, and partners with IT, engineering, sales, and product teams. U.S. citizenship and FBI fingerprint and background checks are required.

Lead strategy to define and scale technical skilling for Microsoft's global Security Solutions Specialist community. Use sales and field data, market intelligence, and AI-enabled analytics to identify capability gaps, design skilling frameworks, drive adoption, measure impact, and advise senior leaders to accelerate security and AI-driven customer outcomes.