Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Columbus, OH

Lead the design, implementation, and support of CyberArk privileged access management solutions. Manage privileged accounts, credentials, SSH keys, and non-human identities across enterprise platforms. Build integrations with identity, ITSM, cloud, and infrastructure systems; automate onboarding and compliance processes; troubleshoot production issues; and support upgrades, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance management. Provide technical leadership, documentation, mentoring, and security architecture guidance.

Leads the strategic direction, operating model, governance, and service delivery of enterprise Identity and Access Management operations. Oversees complex security, operational, risk, compliance, incident, modernization, automation, and resiliency initiatives. Partners with executives, engineering, audit, risk, and compliance teams; drives issue resolution and operational improvements; and develops a high-performing security organization.

Principal Engineer leading enterprise architecture and security strategy for agentic identity, AI agents, autonomous systems, machine identities, and workload identities. Defines authentication, authorization, lifecycle, governance, Zero Trust, auditability, and accountability controls; establishes reference architectures and guardrails; integrates identity platforms across cloud and cybersecurity ecosystems; and advises leadership while ensuring regulatory, privacy, risk, and compliance alignment.

Leads the design, automation, operation, and support of enterprise PKI and certificate lifecycle management services. Develops certificate issuance, renewal, discovery, compliance, and integration solutions using APIs and automation. Supports cryptographic modernization, crypto-agility, post-quantum readiness, and machine identity frameworks. Identifies security risks, collaborates with application and infrastructure teams, provides technical leadership, and mentors engineers.

Leads cybersecurity engineering teams developing enterprise security solutions across multiple technology domains. Clarifies security requirements, supports multi-level network security, performs threat modeling and vulnerability assessments, and advises leaders during security risks. Uses and validates enterprise-authorized AI for risk analysis, documentation, security testing, and control validation while ensuring data sensitivity, auditability, and resiliency. Coaches, develops, hires, and recognizes engineering talent.

Lead secure software engineering for blockchain and distributed-ledger capabilities. Design security monitoring controls, build scalable API and microservices tooling, operate CI/CD pipelines with security guardrails, and implement secure SDLC practices. Perform threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability remediation, incident triage, and root-cause analysis. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, evaluate vendors, and validate AI-assisted security recommendations while ensuring resilience, auditability, and data protection.

Leads an enterprise Privileged Access Management engineering organization, overseeing PAM strategy, platform modernization, credential vaulting, secrets management, session control, least-privilege enforcement, automation, and cloud-ready access solutions. Manages engineers, drives DevSecOps and Zero Trust integration, reduces privileged-access vulnerabilities, partners across security and infrastructure teams, provides technical oversight for enterprise initiatives, responds to access incidents, manages resources and budgets, and develops engineering talent.

Lead Toast’s product and platform security organization, overseeing security platform engineering, application and cloud security, secure development practices, offensive security, vulnerability management, hardware security, and developer enablement. Partner with product and engineering leaders to establish secure defaults and scalable guardrails while reducing developer friction. Manage and grow a multi-team security engineering organization, expand security champions and tooling adoption, and align security posture with business and product priorities.

Provides proactive technical account management for strategic cybersecurity customers. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, platform training, health checks, issue resolution, escalation management, success planning, knowledge-base development, renewal-risk mitigation, and expansion support. The role serves as a customer advocate while collaborating with support, engineering, and sales teams. Candidates need cloud, application infrastructure, security, incident response, forensics, networking, and cloud architecture expertise, along with strong communication and customer-success skills.

Lead the design, deployment, automation, and maintenance of secure digital forensics platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. Build Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, cloud security controls, testing, monitoring, and resiliency capabilities. Collaborate with cybersecurity and cloud teams to support incident response, compliance, high availability, and platform governance. Review AI-assisted code and security recommendations while maintaining technical documentation and operational procedures.

Lead cryptographic security assessments of protocols, libraries, applications, and high-assurance systems. Analyze advanced cryptographic constructions, identify design and implementation weaknesses, validate exploitability, and recommend remediation. Build testing and analysis tools, manage client delivery, write precise technical reports, mentor engineers, contribute to methodologies and services, and support open-source research and technical publications.

Build and lead a scalable application security and secure SDLC program across engineering teams. Establish policies, standards, tooling, vulnerability management, threat modeling, developer enablement, security champions, software supply-chain controls, and executive reporting. Partner with development, platform, DevOps, product, and leadership teams to integrate security into CI/CD, source control, build, release, and deployment workflows while supporting audits, advisories, incident response, and regulatory requirements.

Partner with sales teams to win strategic data security opportunities. Present technical solutions, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations, configure solutions, and design evaluation test plans. The role requires extensive pre-sales experience, security and networking expertise, data protection and web technology knowledge, and collaboration across matrixed go-to-market and partner teams.

Lead insider risk detection engineering and investigations using EDR/XDR, UEBA, SIEM, and SOAR tools. Refine detection rules, reduce alert noise, close coverage gaps, manage investigations, develop playbooks, document evidence, mentor analysts, and collaborate discreetly with HR, Legal, business leaders, and executives. The role also requires investigative workflow automation using Python or JavaScript and ownership of scalable security processes.

Build and lead Motive’s globally distributed SOC, owning detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, intelligence, security analytics, endpoint protection, cloud and workload monitoring, and AI-driven automation. Establish operating models, coverage strategies, runbooks, telemetry platforms, incident command processes, and measurable detection and response capabilities across corporate and production environments.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

The Senior Security Engineer will secure networks, systems, applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure; embed security controls into build pipelines; manage vulnerabilities and remediation; respond to incidents through on-call rotation; and promote security awareness across engineering. The role requires cloud security, infrastructure-as-code, application security, REST API protection, IAM, and tools including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Wiz, Exaforce, and CrowdStrike.

Lead cloud security architecture and threat hunting across enterprise cloud environments. Partner with engineering, product, and risk teams to embed secure-by-design controls, conduct threat models and risk assessments, review infrastructure-as-code, develop preventive and detective controls, and operationalize detections with cybersecurity teams. Analyze large datasets, improve alerting and incident-response playbooks, investigate cloud threats, and provide expertise on adversary tradecraft and emerging risks.

Leads enterprise data security and information governance by building data intake, catalog, marketplace, classification, lineage, and access-control programs. Translates privacy and security requirements into technical controls, self-service workflows, and governance documentation. Partners with Legal, InfoSec, engineering, product, and data teams to support compliant data use, AI/ML initiatives, and regulatory requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Measures adoption, turnaround times, and governance maturity across a global SaaS organization.

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, and communicate findings to technical, executive, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Build investigation scripts, runbooks, automated workflows, and security operations capabilities. Mentor engineers and support insider threat initiatives while collaborating across teams on cloud security and incident response.

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.

Protect corporate data through DLP implementation, tuning, alert review, false-positive reduction, and control optimization across web, endpoint, email, cloud, and SaaS environments. The engineer will review data protection programs, improve monitoring and blocking controls, collaborate with business partners, and use automation and emerging AI tools to strengthen security operations.

Leads and mentors a product security engineering team while remaining hands-on. Owns certification, accreditation, DISA STIG hardening, SOC 2, ISO 27001, audit readiness, vulnerability remediation, security tooling, and authorization initiatives. Coordinates with Compliance, Legal, Sales Engineering, and customers; tracks remediation SLAs and certification posture; establishes evidence collection processes; and translates technical security strategy into an executable roadmap.

Lead enterprise eDiscovery and insider-risk investigations by collecting, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing data from cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and repositories. Build AI-powered automation, correlate activity logs into investigative timelines, manage legal holds and governance policies, support digital forensics, and produce structured evidence packages for Security, Legal, HR, and investigative teams.

Administer and improve Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security groups, access reviews, request approvals, audit support, governance documentation, and compliance controls. Evaluate elevated access requests, identify risks, resolve routine issues, coordinate remediation, and escalate complex decisions. Partner with HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders to strengthen policies, processes, and least-privilege access across Workday, Peakon, UKG, Prism, and HR data platforms.