Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

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 presales engagements and practice development for security operations solutions. Design SOC architectures involving SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence, detection, incident response, and automation. Conduct discovery sessions, demonstrations, POCs, presentations, vendor evaluations, and internal enablement. Develop technical collateral, support partner solutions, identify revenue opportunities, and advise clients on SecOps maturity and target-state architectures.

Engineer and operate enterprise EDR/XDR protections across hundreds of thousands of Windows, macOS, Linux, server, container, and multi-cloud workloads. Responsibilities include behavioral defense, allowlisting, phased deployments, threat investigation, host forensics, live remediation, SOC escalation support, attack simulation, and continuous measurement of endpoint coverage and control efficacy. The role also partners with application owners and IT operations to minimize business disruption while automating security policies and fleet-wide remediation.

Build autonomous AI-driven security testing systems and agentic workflows for analyzing mobile, desktop, IoT, and API applications. Develop reusable security automation frameworks, integrate static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, network analysis, vulnerability intelligence, and custom tools. Create evaluation systems and human-in-the-loop workflows, research emerging AI and offensive security techniques, and collaborate with security researchers to scale testing. The role requires production-quality coding, security expertise, autonomy, and U.S. citizenship.

Lead technical presales engagements for Microsoft security solutions, including Entra, Purview, Defender, and Sentinel. Deliver discovery sessions, demonstrations, whiteboarding, solution designs, and proof-of-concept efforts. Build competitive strategies, resolve technical blockers, guide customer decisions, collaborate with partners and deployment teams, and help existing customers optimize security product usage. Embed governance, security, and compliance into customer engagements while quantifying business value and supporting sales targets.

Leads cybersecurity governance, enterprise risk assessments, security maturity evaluations, third-party risk reviews, audits, and remediation planning. Owns phishing simulations and security awareness programs, analyzes human-risk metrics, and develops targeted training. Maintains risk registers, dashboards, scorecards, KRIs, and executive reporting while improving GRC efficiency through automation. Advises business and technology leaders by translating technical risks into actionable recommendations and collaborates cross-functionally with Procurement, Legal, HR, Communications, Internal Audit, and Information Security.

Provide fractional cybersecurity advisory and hands-on operations for hedge funds and family offices: conduct assessments, run vulnerability management and incident response, implement policies and controls, monitor logs and network traffic, test BCDR plans, advise on vendor selection, and report KPIs and remediation plans.

Serve as a fractional CISO advising alternative asset firms and family offices on building, maintaining, and operating full cybersecurity programs. Provide hands-on leadership, risk assessment, policy and controls development, and program execution on project-based engagements.

Lead complex cloud, identity, supply-chain, and nation-state security investigations. Perform root-cause analysis, threat hunting, blast-radius assessment, attribution, and incident response across Microsoft telemetry. Operationalize intelligence into queries, detections, playbooks, and platform fixes; investigate adversary tradecraft; use AI-assisted tooling; produce executive-ready reports; and mentor peers in advanced investigations, forensics, and reverse engineering.

Leads long-term strategy, vision, roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes for information security products. Develops product strategies based on user needs, prioritizes releases across products, manages capacity and investment decisions, tracks KPIs, and collaborates with stakeholders and product teams. Mentors Product Owners, facilitates cross-functional alignment, engages customers, researches industry trends, and supports continuous improvement within a highly regulated enterprise environment.

Build Tempo’s product security program from the ground up, including application, infrastructure, endpoint, and supply-chain security tooling. Identify and remediate production and development-pipeline risks, lead incident response through post-mortems, conduct secure design reviews, and establish scalable security practices. The role requires hands-on coding, deep incident-response expertise, strong infrastructure and application-security knowledge, and autonomous collaboration with engineering.

Designs, engineers, administers, and supports enterprise Exchange environments across Microsoft 365, hybrid, and on-premises systems. Owns mail flow, SMTP, transport, migration, identity integration, and messaging architecture. Administers Proofpoint, EOP, DMARC, SPF, DKIM, anti-phishing, and anti-spoofing controls. Leads incident response, root-cause analysis, security investigations, change and release management, vendor coordination, documentation, and collaboration with security operations and infrastructure teams.

Lead AppSec efforts across product, platform, and AI features by owning secure SDLC, performing threat modeling and deep code reviews, driving vulnerability management and remediation, building AppSec tooling and automations (including AI-assisted workflows), and enabling engineering teams with secure design guidance and training.

The Security Software Engineer will design and implement security controls for MongoDB Atlas, collaborating across engineering teams and ensuring adherence to high security standards.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead security design and implementation for cloud infrastructures, mentor teams, and automate security solutions.

Own Fetch’s information security function, including vulnerability management, application security, incident response, forensics, security architecture, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, AI governance, and security awareness. Serve as incident commander and senior technical authority, mature the security program, lead audits and executive reporting, manage security risks, and hire and develop the Security Engineering team.

Build and own automated security control monitoring, continuous control monitoring, AWS evidence collection, control-failure workflows, and AI-native GRC processes. Integrate APIs and data systems, maintain cross-framework control libraries, support audits, validate remediation, administer GRC technology, and establish engineering standards for automation. Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, and IT to implement preventive guardrails, dashboards, self-service evidence, and measurable improvements in audit readiness and risk reduction.

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.

Designs and executes application security practices across product and platform engineering teams. Responsibilities include integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, secret, IaC, API, mobile, container, and cloud-native security into CI/CD; conducting secure design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and testing; building automation, guardrails, policy-as-code, release risk gates, secure coding standards, SBOM processes, and vulnerability disclosure workflows.

Leads Ferguson’s enterprise Security Engineering function, including vulnerability management, DevSecOps, penetration testing, application and cloud security, endpoint and email protection, edge security, configuration management, and security tooling. Builds and develops technical teams, establishes roadmaps and metrics, prioritizes risk-based remediation, oversees vendors and service operations, and communicates security posture and investment needs to executives and technology partners.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture for AI, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Designs secure AI architectures, cloud foundational controls, zero-trust identity models, API and data protections, and secure LLM, RAG, agent, and MCP integrations. Establishes governance, reusable security patterns, model-usage procedures, compliance controls, and audit readiness across AWS and Azure. Advises executives and technical teams, mentors security professionals, and drives secure cloud migrations while addressing AI/ML risks such as adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, bias, and data leakage.

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.

Own day-to-day cybersecurity, identity and access hygiene, compliance readiness, and infrastructure security across a multi-site healthcare environment. Administer Microsoft security tools, MFA, Conditional Access, SIEM, email protection, patching, backups, firewalls, and network controls. Lead SOC 2 evidence collection, security reporting, remediation tracking, third-party access reviews, and audit preparation. Direct and verify outsourced IT and offshore resources, enforce SLAs, supervise network work, and communicate risks to nontechnical leaders.