Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Dayton, OH

Leads the design and implementation of secure IT infrastructure, performs security monitoring and threat analysis, enforces security controls, evaluates security technologies, manages patching and vulnerability scanning, and maintains continuous system security. Provides guidance to stakeholders, manages security projects, mentors junior engineers, and participates in incident-response on-call rotations.

Lead end-to-end execution of a 12+ initiative product security program, managing cross-team dependencies, vendor procurement, BAU security operations, and executive reporting. Maintain roadmap and tracking in Jira/Confluence, drive procurement/POCs, produce executive-ready metrics, and establish program cadence to ensure timely remediation and predictable delivery.

Manage and maintain system security plans and accreditation for unclassified Air Force systems. Lead RMF/continuous monitoring activities, perform inspections and audits, track POA&Ms, ensure FISMA/DoD compliance, and support DevSecOps/cloud security validation.

Lead product vision and strategy for security operations services, defining outcomes for managed investigation, response, threat hunting, and advisory services. Partner with customer security ops, product, and marketing teams to deliver AI-driven, automated features, represent Zscaler to customers, and drive measurable security outcomes and operational alignment.

Lead Coinbase's global IT and security audit program, delivering complex cross-functional audits across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, IAM, data protection, and third-party risk. Manage and develop a global audit team, partner with first- and second-line stakeholders to drive integrated assurance, and report executive-level findings to senior leadership and the Audit Committee. Modernize audit execution through data analytics, automation, and generative AI to enable continuous monitoring and automated evidence retrieval.

Lead design and implementation of secure IT infrastructure for ISR/aviation programs. Perform advanced security monitoring, threat analysis, incident response, and digital forensics. Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments, develop and enforce security controls, research security technologies, oversee breach documentation, and mentor junior engineers. Requires on-call participation and occasional travel.

Serve as the F-15 Division ISSO ensuring DoD/USAF/MAJCOM security policy implementation and RMF compliance. Perform certification/risk analysis, system security plans, vulnerability assessments, COMSEC management, SIPRNET messaging, incident reporting, security software administration, self-inspections, and support secure-facility operations and SAP program requirements.

Provide administrative and data management support for risk analysis: maintain secure review records, collate and analyze threat data, produce written and oral risk reports and briefings, track actions in automated systems, handle classified materials per DoD procedures, and assist senior analysts and proposal efforts.

Assess and validate security controls for Air Force weapon systems using RMF and NIST SP 800-53. Produce A&A artifacts (Security Plans, Assessment Reports, POA&Ms), perform hardware/software assurance, SCRM analysis, continuous monitoring, onsite inspections/audits, and support Authorizing Officials and Program Offices at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Serve as the directorate's C&A/RMF expert for SCI and below. Use eMASS/Xacta/EBS to obtain IATO/ATO, prepare and track C&A packages, manage POA&Ms, update registration workbooks, coordinate AO/DAO changes, perform maintenance, backups, upgrades, vulnerability scans and DISA STIG reviews, produce IA artifacts, assess and mitigate risks, and coordinate system documentation with program managers.

Lead development and implementation of cybersecurity solutions for USAF SAP cloud, perform RMF risk and vulnerability assessments, implement infrastructure controls, leverage SEIM tools (Splunk/Elastic) and network devices (Palo Alto/Cisco), analyze threats using big-data analytics, and support classified system-to-cloud integration.

As a Security Architect, you will build secure agent runtimes and systems, ensuring robust security capabilities in agentic AI solutions while conducting security evaluations.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

Lead hands-on security engineer responsible for designing, implementing, hardening, automating, and optimizing enterprise security controls across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, email, and data protection. Builds and maintains security platforms (SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR), develops detection logic, automates workflows, supports incident response, and partners with cross-functional teams to raise security engineering maturity and reduce risk.

Lead and grow the security operations team to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across endpoints, identity, email, and cloud. Develop SecOps strategy, incident response playbooks, run tabletop exercises, manage SIEM/EDR/email security, drive identity governance, vendor/MSSP relationships, and report security KPIs to leadership.

Design and assess secure systems for Microsoft business operations: perform threat modeling and security design assessments, drive risk-based architecture decisions, communicate risk, mentor teammates, and ensure compliance with security policies and screenings.

Perform advanced threat hunting and deep analysis of attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, notify customers of imminent threats, build proof-of-concept hunting tools and automations, synthesize findings into mitigation recommendations, and drive product/tool improvements by transferring threat intelligence and investigation best practices to engineering and customer teams.

Hands-on senior IT security systems administrator responsible for administering Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, managing Windows and Mac endpoints via MDM, operating identity and SSO/MFA systems, and running security tooling (EDR, DLP, SIEM, email security). Owns threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability and patch management, compliance evidence, DR planning, security reporting, and vendor relationships for a remote distributed workforce.

Hands-on Staff Security Engineer to build and operate DevSecOps capabilities: automate security controls, harden AWS/cloud and CI/CD, improve supply-chain security, build detection/response tooling, partner with engineering for secure design, and lead incident response and compliance automation.

Lead research and deliver strategic and tactical advice on AI data security and AI ecosystem data management. Produce written research, briefings, and presentations; advise clients and stakeholders; grow networks of thought leaders and vendors; ensure research integrity and collaborate across Gartner to support deliverables. Travel up to 25%.

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.

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.