Top Entry Level Cyber Security Jobs

Lead security engineering for AI, generative AI, LLM, RAG, and ML systems. Develop AI red teaming strategies, secure architectures, adversarial testing, vulnerability controls, monitoring, and safe deployment practices. Collaborate with product, data science, cloud security, legal, risk, vendors, and standards bodies to manage emerging AI threats and regulatory requirements. Build automation, playbooks, dashboards, and testing frameworks to identify prompt injection, jailbreaking, data poisoning, and other vulnerabilities.

Leads product security and resiliency across the full lifecycle of Tomahawk missile systems. Develops security requirements and architectures, implements cybersecurity controls, protects facilities and technical resources, defines supplier security requirements, coordinates with customers and government stakeholders, supports certification and compliance, researches security solutions, and advises customers on product security. Requires active Secret clearance, Windows administration, scripting, cybersecurity controls experience, and 10–30% travel.

Develop and modernize secure authentication, authorization, identity management, and configuration infrastructure using Java, Go, or Python. Lead architecture decisions for cloud-native migrations, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, evaluate security technologies, and drive cross-team initiatives. Serve as a technical authority for security infrastructure while contributing to documentation, open source, and security posture improvements.

Designs, tests, and implements cybersecurity controls, defenses, and countermeasures for classified Intelligence Community systems. Responsibilities include continuous monitoring, incident response planning, log analysis, access management, system authorization tracking, and maintaining firewall and encryption protocols across complex networks and security enclaves. Preferred experience includes SecDevOps, cloud security, AWS, Azure, and AWS Security Specialty certification.

Design, test, and implement cybersecurity controls, defenses, and countermeasures for classified Intelligence Community systems. Responsibilities include continuous monitoring, incident response planning, log analysis, access management, system authorization, firewall and encryption maintenance, and investigating potential security compromises. Preferred expertise includes SecDevOps, Splunk, scripting, cloud security, AWS, Azure, and cloud certifications.

Build and operate security platform services, asset and identity ownership systems, automated security reviews, vulnerability triage workflows, and AI guardrails. Develop production automation with approval, testing, monitoring, and on-call support. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, IT, and product teams while contributing code reviews, design reviews, runbooks, and technical guidance.

Build and operate corporate security controls for identity, access, endpoints, and SaaS applications. Automate authentication and joiner-mover-leaver workflows, secure macOS and mobile devices, develop agents and security tooling, detect and remediate misconfigurations, respond to security events, and partner with IT and engineering teams on secure SaaS and AI integrations. Participate in on-call rotations, conduct code reviews, maintain runbooks, and influence security improvements across the organization.

Designs and deploys enterprise IAM and Zero Trust architectures across corporate and vendor environments. The role establishes MFA, SSO, privileged access, segmentation, and security effectiveness metrics; integrates AI-driven threat detection and automation; analyzes threat intelligence; remediates vulnerabilities; and leads security architecture intake for enterprise initiatives. It requires cross-functional collaboration with IT, compliance, and business teams.

Designs, implements, and maintains highly available HSM and cryptographic infrastructure supporting payment operations. Responsibilities include architecture, deployment, lifecycle management, migrations, troubleshooting, documentation, key management, automation, compliance, risk assessments, audits, and incident response. The role collaborates across teams to establish security standards and resiliency practices while using validated AI-assisted tools for threat modeling, security analysis, and documentation.

Leads technical pre-sales architecture for complex security solutions serving public-sector and commercial customers. Translates business, security, compliance, and technical requirements into solution designs, bills of materials, statements of work, estimates, pricing, assessments, and deployment plans. Conducts discovery sessions, architecture workshops, solution reviews, and customer presentations while partnering with sales, delivery teams, and security vendors. Mentors architects and sellers, supports regional customer activity, and travels throughout the Southeast as needed.

Owns Opendoor’s enterprise identity security platform, including workforce authentication, passwordless access, authorization policies, non-human and AI agent identities, lifecycle automation, and identity infrastructure as code. Builds Okta integrations and first-party tooling, manages secure access standards, feeds identity telemetry into detection systems, supports incident response, and mentors security and IT engineers. The role requires strong software engineering, enterprise IAM expertise, and hands-on experience with Okta, passkeys, Terraform, and identity protocols.

Secure Outset’s AWS infrastructure, Terraform code, application architecture, and product code. Responsibilities include security reviews, penetration-test coordination, vulnerability remediation, incident investigation, SIEM detection engineering, alert response, telemetry improvement, security automation, cloud hardening, IAM, secrets management, and collaboration with engineering and SRE teams. The role leads technical platform investigations during security and privacy incidents and develops practical controls that protect systems without slowing product delivery.

Architects secure mission services for denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited-connectivity environments. Develops DDIL strategies, decentralized identity and policy services, caching and synchronization approaches, data protection architectures, and Zero Trust controls. Translates mission constraints into technical requirements, evaluates security and availability tradeoffs, guides prototypes and testing, and advises government and engineering stakeholders on implementation, acceptance criteria, risks, and recovery during connectivity loss.

Participate in Citi’s summer technology analyst program through training, mentoring, networking, and real-world projects. Responsibilities may include developing microservices and web applications, applying generative AI, analyzing data, strengthening cybersecurity defenses, supporting enterprise resiliency, and contributing to strategic technology initiatives. Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams while building technical, business, communication, and leadership skills.

Conducts original research advancing AI and systems security, including secure AI models, AI-enabled secure system design and verification, and AI for cybersecurity. Develops and evaluates security techniques for hardware, software, runtimes, compilers, and applications; addresses threats such as vulnerabilities, data leakage, and attacks. Collaborates across research, hardware, software, and product teams, publishes findings, builds prototypes, and translates research into practical systems and developer capabilities.

Own company-wide infrastructure security, establish the security roadmap, and implement controls across cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, autonomous agents, software delivery, supply chain, and employee devices. Build monitoring, detection, incident response, threat modeling, and architecture review practices while partnering with engineering, research, and compliance teams to manage risk and maintain practical, auditable controls.

Supports cybersecurity platforms for threat hunting, data forensics, and malware analysis. Responsibilities include configuring and integrating GTI, SafeBreach, BloodHound, and related tools; contributing to CAASM architecture using APM and BAS; developing automation; troubleshooting and remediation; supporting testing, upgrades, documentation, and operational readiness. The role requires knowledge of Windows, Linux, networking, access controls, scripting, APIs, and cybersecurity workflows, along with strong communication and collaboration skills.

Supports enterprise security architecture and information security programs by deploying and tuning security controls, administering SIEM tools, investigating alerts, conducting vulnerability management, hardening systems, supporting incident response, and assisting with audits and regulatory compliance. The role also develops security documentation, improves detection and automation, communicates business risks, and partners with IT and business stakeholders to strengthen security posture.

Manages cybersecurity engineering personnel within the AIMS-ACS organization, overseeing performance evaluations, training, timekeeping, recruiting, hiring, promotions, compensation actions, career development, and personnel communications. The team supports analysis, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, security, modernization, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning of analytic capabilities. The manager must possess mission-related experience, an active U.S. security clearance with polygraph, and appropriate education or equivalent experience.

Own Sable’s security program across cloud infrastructure, browser environments, credentials, secrets, and customer data. Establish data-handling and access-control standards, maintain ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 controls, threat-model emerging AI surfaces, manage vulnerabilities, and build detection, logging, and incident-response systems. Lead customer security discussions and develop preventative guardrails for engineering, including protections for multi-tenant systems, sandboxed browser use, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.

Designs, implements, and improves secure enterprise and cloud environments. Responsibilities include cyberattack prevention and response, security automation, SIEM and AWS monitoring, vulnerability management, packet and log analysis, A&A documentation, NIST 800-53 control assessment, risk mitigation, POA&M development, continuous monitoring, and security compliance. The role also supports IDS/IPS, penetration testing, security dashboards, and cloud application approval processes.

Build and operate Base’s identity and authorization platform, including Okta workforce SSO, cloud federation, entitlements-as-code, workload identity, PKI, authentication policies, and least-privilege authorization primitives. The role partners with IT, security, and application teams to provide secure identity, groups, and tokens across internal systems, cloud infrastructure, services, and field devices.

Performs cyber systems security engineering across the lifecycle, including risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, secure design, testing, verification, and RMF authorization activities. Serves as backup program cyber lead, manages RMF documentation and evidence, and supports vulnerability scanning, patching, and secure configurations. Coordinates with architects and developers to address cybersecurity requirements, supply chain risks, and system security trade-offs.

Establishes a security engineering practice, develops production Go code, and secures cloud and container infrastructure across multiple providers. Responsibilities include access controls, network defenses, credential handling, workload isolation, audit logging, application security, and secure coding. The engineer also builds security capabilities for external users and advises client technical teams on platform security requirements.

Leads the company’s security function through hands-on engineering and security team leadership. Responsibilities include building security tooling, strengthening secure development and vulnerability management, designing security architecture for automated and AI-driven systems, managing privacy and compliance risks, owning audit attestations, partnering on customer security matters, and leading incident response and detection improvements.