Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design, build, and scale enterprise encryption and key management solutions. Harden and tune Linux/Windows systems, administer HSMs and CipherTrust products, automate secure deployments, and mentor team members while partnering with engineering and operations to deliver resilient, compliant cryptographic solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud (AWS) and on-prem systems. Lead vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation. Serve as SME for SIEM, SAST/DAST, IAM. Embed security in SDLC, support SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit readiness, mentor junior engineers, and recommend control improvements.

Design, build, and operate core CIAM backend services for registration, authentication, authorization, account lifecycle, and profile management. Implement OAuth2/OIDC/SAML/SCIM, develop APIs in Python/Kotlin, integrate identity platforms, automate deployments with IaC/CI-CD, and monitor/optimize services for reliability, security (MFA, token handling, encryption), and abuse detection at scale.

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Lead and grow a product research team focused on defensive cybersecurity research. Own technical and managerial leadership, collaborate with Product, SOC, and Engineering, scale automated threat-detection workflows using AI, and mentor researchers to deliver prioritized platform capabilities.

Own and architect Forward's security technology stack across AppSec, SecOps, and GRC. Design integrations with Engineering/IT, lead tool evaluations and PoCs, automate controls with infrastructure-as-code and detection-as-code, build centralized logging/SIEM and identity governance, align architecture to security frameworks, mentor security engineers, and support incident response and remediation.

Serve as a senior embedded cybersecurity consultant across the customer lifecycle: secure technical wins in pre-sales, run POVs, advise C-level and technical stakeholders, design cyber skills programs and crisis simulations, drive platform adoption and roadmaps, operationalize Immersive One with metrics and EBRs, and act as the customer liaison to sales, product, and engineering to improve cyber workforce resilience.

Secure customer-facing products, APIs, and internal services through threat modeling, architecture and code reviews. Remediate vulnerabilities by coding fixes in Python/Go/JS/TS. Build and manage SAST/DAST/SCA security pipelines in CI/CD. Configure WAFs, API gateways, and bot protection. Provide secure coding guidance, run bug bounty triage, and support compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

Lead architecture and scaling of an automated, AI-driven vulnerability detection and remediation platform across cloud, containers, and applications. Correlate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, implement AI-assisted triage, run red/purple team validation, and build automated remediation pipelines integrated into CI/CD for continuous compliance and risk reduction.

Assess and harden software supply chain security by performing technical assessments, designing and implementing security controls and monitoring for build pipelines, investigating systems for vulnerabilities, creating tooling to address gaps, and leading cross-team projects to improve CrowdStrike's product security posture.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Own and evolve the application security program: embed secure SDLC practices, partner with engineering on design and code reviews, manage AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/ASM/WAF/mobile), harden AWS deployments, integrate security into CI/CD, and lead vulnerability investigation and remediation efforts.

Lead detection, response, and digital forensics for security incidents. Monitor alerts, perform technical analysis, act as Incident Commander, build automation and runbooks, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team investigations and insider threat work.

Conduct advanced OSINT and operational tradecraft to collect, track, and report on hacktivist and state-sponsored threat actor activity across South Asia, Latin America, and North Africa. Produce contextual internal reports, collaborate on analytical products, and employ secure methods to support threat intelligence operations.

Senior technical security engineer responsible for cloud infrastructure security, detection engineering, incident response, application and product security, vulnerability management, penetration test ownership, and security automation. Partners with platform, logistics, and IT teams, manages an application security contractor, and builds tooling to raise the security posture across AWS, IaC, edge, and container environments.

Design, build, and deliver technical cybersecurity training: analyze needs, create modular learning assets (self-paced and instructor-led), validate effectiveness, coordinate with SMEs, and translate operational knowledge into trusted documentation.

Design and build custom security tools, middleware, and automations to integrate Identity, MDM, EDR, SIEM, and SaaS platforms. Implement API-driven data flows, UIs, CI/CD pipelines, SOAR playbooks, and secure deployment practices. Collaborate with Security Ops, IT, and Engineering to translate policies into automated, secure solutions.

Lead large-scale collection and analysis of deep and dark web data, build and maintain production-grade automated collection systems (LLM-integrated), operate Docker/cloud-based pipelines and APIs, respond to collection failures and incidents, perform threat actor research, and apply OPSEC tradecraft while collaborating globally.

Analyze in-the-wild exploits and perform deep reverse engineering to track adversaries. Build detection, automation, and classification frameworks; develop host/network signatures and tooling. Produce high-quality intelligence reports and briefings, collaborate across teams, and contribute to mitigation and large-scale hunting efforts.

Lead OSINT and engagement-driven investigations into Russian-language eCrime actors across surface, deep, and dark web. Collect actionable intelligence, produce contextual internal reports, collaborate with analytic teams, employ secure virtual OPSEC tradecraft, and leverage AI to accelerate research and decision-making under tight deadlines.

Lead and grow a remote Security Detection & Response team, build detection engineering and observability systems, drive telemetry onboarding, Panther and MITRE-aligned detections, Python automation, CI/CD workflows, and AI-assisted triage. Own incident response, investigations, cross-functional collaboration, and measurement of detection effectiveness.

Lead federal cloud security and compliance efforts to achieve and sustain ATOs. Implement and automate FedRAMP/IL-5/RMF controls, manage continuous monitoring, coordinate 3PAO audits, drive cloud security architecture, oversee change control/SCRs, and lead incident response and POA&M remediation using AI-enabled automation and monitoring across high-security GovCloud environments.

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.

The Security and Compliance Lead ensures data center security through policy development, compliance management, incident response, and staff training while enhancing physical security systems.