Top Cyber Security Jobs in Charleston, SC

Implements, supports, and optimizes SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include log onboarding, parsing, normalization, detection rule development and tuning, data quality validation, troubleshooting, automation, architecture review support, documentation, and continuous improvement. The engineer works in a client-facing consulting environment under senior guidance and supports multiple security operations platforms and environments.

Maintain and improve cybersecurity across Azure Cloud and on-premises environments. Monitor and tune security alerts, manage vulnerability scanning and remediation, conduct threat intelligence analysis, support incident response, perform risk assessments and threat modeling, and implement security controls and configurations. The role also supports regulatory compliance, security documentation, cross-functional initiatives, and on-call response to security alerts.

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.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

Protect and defend DoD information systems by performing vulnerability analysis, RMF/STIG compliance, incident response, documentation (POA&M, System Security Plan), ATO support, and use of automated tools (SCAP, Nessus, ACAS) to ensure policy compliance and system restoration.

Lead design and daily administration of a university research security program ensuring compliance with federal/state mandates (NSPM-33, CHIPS Act), export controls, CUI, NIST/CMMC requirements. Manage foreign travel security, training, risk assessments, stakeholder engagement, investigations, KPIs, and institutional coordination with ISO, sponsors, and regulators.

The Product Security Engineer partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture and security reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation planning, security-tool ownership, automation, secure coding guidance, incident response, and assessing risks in cloud and AI-enabled products. The role requires strong application security, identity, authentication, authorization, coding, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Lead strategy to define, measure, and evolve Solution Engineer and Cloud Solution Architect excellence for Microsoft Security. Use data, AI-powered analytics, and customer insights to identify performance drivers, design capability strategies, advise senior leaders, and drive field transformation. Build governance, risk remediation, and scalable enablement programs while partnering across engineering, product, sales, and enablement to measure impact and continuously improve outcomes.

Provides information security support for federal healthcare systems, including security architecture reviews, firewall and infrastructure initiatives, security impact assessments, mitigating controls, system security plans, SOPs, and POA&M remediation. Advises development teams and customer security organizations on federal security requirements, emerging practices such as Zero Trust and SBOM, network monitoring, authentication, and data security. The role is remote and requires passing an IHS background check for Public Trust eligibility.

Serve as a senior security solution architect advising enterprise customers on modern, cloud-native Microsoft security architectures. Design and validate solutions using Microsoft security products, remove technical blockers, act as SME on complex deployments, gather customer insights to influence product roadmap and map solutions to business outcomes, and support large-scale security and compliance projects.

Serves as the endpoint security subject-matter expert for support, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success. Diagnoses complex Windows and macOS endpoint issues, analyzes telemetry and logs, troubleshoots integrations with EDR, DLP, and MDM products, and provides prioritized customer recommendations. Partners with Engineering and QA on defect investigation and validation, maintains lab capabilities, and creates runbooks and documentation. The role also enables field teams to explain endpoint findings and improve customer outcomes.

Own Tribe’s corporate security, compliance, AI governance, and client-facing security programs. Lead SOC 2 and future certification efforts, enterprise security reviews, risk management, security controls, incident response, vendor risk, and Trust Center operations. Establish governance for AI agents, assistants, model providers, and subprocessors while partnering with engineering on architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure SDLC, data flows, and production readiness. Translate customer requirements into scalable security controls and operating processes.

Identify and validate AI opportunities across IT operations and cybersecurity, including service management, threat detection, infrastructure monitoring, identity access, endpoint protection, and vulnerability management. Translate operational challenges into structured use cases, assess business value and risk, document data and integration requirements, promote responsible AI, facilitate stakeholder workshops, build internal champions, and monitor emerging AI capabilities while supporting security compliance and change management.

Serve as the senior network-security subject-matter expert for support, sales engineering, and customer success. Review firewall rules, segmentation, controls, and product findings; troubleshoot integrations across enterprise network-security platforms; diagnose issues using packet captures, flow data, logs, and protocol behavior; and provide actionable root-cause guidance. Partner with Engineering and QA on defects and fixes, maintain network test capabilities, and author runbooks and documentation. Coach sales engineers and help harden the product through escalations and feedback.

Designs and leads cloud and application security solutions across DNS, HTTP servers, microservices, container infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Defines security requirements, controls, encryption, access management, risk assessments, testing standards, and compliance measures. Analyzes security data and risks, integrates network security controls, develops scalable solutions, leads technical working groups, and communicates findings and recommendations to technical stakeholders, customers, and third parties.

Optimize Microsoft security operations by tuning Sentinel detections, reducing false positives, designing alert and incident-response automation, integrating Defender products and third-party telemetry, improving SOC workflows, and developing investigation playbooks, runbooks, and documentation. This hands-on 3–4 month contract requires strong Sentinel and Defender expertise, advanced KQL, Logic Apps, SOAR automation, SIEM engineering, and security operations optimization experience.

Build and maintain cloud security improvements across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments. Design detection and response capabilities using SIEM, EDR/MDR, cloud-native detections, and CNAPP tools. Investigate and respond to security incidents end to end, develop detection logic and playbooks, and create security tooling and automations using Python, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code. The role also supports endpoint security and secure DevOps practices.

Leads the global Network Security and Load Balancing platform team, setting strategy, architecture, automation, and operational direction. Oversees firewalls, proxies, load balancers, cloud security, Zero Trust, and micro-segmentation. Manages audits, regulatory engagements, vulnerability remediation, risk reporting, product backlogs, and stakeholder communications. Partners with cybersecurity, architecture, application, compliance, and business teams to maintain secure, compliant network platforms.

Lead Fireworks AI’s security operations function, including CrowdStrike deployment, detection engineering, incident response, SOAR workflows, threat intelligence, playbooks, metrics, and cross-functional incident coordination. Build and tune detections, operationalize response processes, run post-incident reviews, and improve coverage against MITRE ATT&CK. The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor and may grow into team leadership, including hiring and expanding 24/7 coverage and capabilities such as cloud detection engineering and red/purple team operations.

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.

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.

Act as the technical lead for strategic customers, driving adoption, deployments, architecture reviews, and executive engagements. Remove technical blockers, align cloud security strategy, partner with CSM and Sales on expansions, and provide product feedback to influence roadmap.

Own and mature Neumo’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance program, including SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS audits, risk registers, data governance, control automation, vendor assessments, and exception processes. Manage 1–2 direct reports, coordinate remediation, leverage AI/LLM tools, participate in incident management, and communicate compliance posture and risk trends to executives and the board.