Top Cyber Security Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Designs, deploys, troubleshoots, and supports enterprise network and security infrastructure, including routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, cloud networking, VPNs, and data center services. The role analyzes operational incidents, implements remediation, maintains documentation, communicates with management, supports roadmap decisions, and participates in on-call rotations. It requires extensive experience with multi-vendor network security technologies, cloud platforms, and customer-facing technical work.

Leads cybersecurity consulting engagements for large, complex organizations, overseeing project delivery, client relationships, security strategy, governance, risk management, proposals, statements of work, and business development. Provides thought leadership, advises senior stakeholders, guides cybersecurity solutions and emerging-threat initiatives, supports sales growth, and mentors junior team members. Travel up to 25% is required.

Perform advanced security monitoring, threat hunting, incident investigation, and triage across endpoint, server, and network environments. Analyze SIEM and endpoint data, identify indicators of attack and compromise, map customer use cases to MITRE ATT&CK, scope incidents, provide recommendations, maintain documentation, and participate in an after-hours incident-controller rotation.

Lead enterprise-wide security compliance and regulatory authorization initiatives across global cloud environments. Architect unified control frameworks, map controls to federal, defense, international, and commercial standards, manage audits and assessments, coordinate evidence and remediation, and communicate compliance risks to executives, government stakeholders, assessors, and defense agencies. Drive continuous monitoring and recurring audit readiness across multiple compliance lifecycles.

Designs and integrates secure information systems, cloud, and defense architectures; leads federal NIST RMF and ATO processes; implements security controls; performs vulnerability, threat, and risk assessments; advises engineering and program teams; and manages continuous monitoring, compliance, audit, and patch-management activities.

Build and maintain custom security tools, middleware, automation, APIs, integrations, dashboards, and security workflows. Integrate identity, endpoint, SIEM, SaaS, and other security platforms using APIs, cloud services, containers, and CI/CD. Translate security policies into secure, code-driven solutions while supporting SOAR, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the creation and growth of a new OT/IoT cybersecurity practice, owning its P&L, offerings, pricing, partnerships, hiring, delivery quality, and go-to-market strategy. Serve as a senior technical SME and trusted advisor for client assessments, regulatory compliance, executive workshops, roadmaps, and security engagements. Shape and close consulting opportunities, develop methodologies and deliverables, manage teams, and advise organizations on ICS/SCADA, segmentation, monitoring, IT/OT convergence, and AI-related risks.

Own Hightouch’s application security posture as the first dedicated security hire. Secure multi-tenant systems, sub-tenant access controls, distributed architecture, internet-facing APIs, and multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure. Lead threat modeling, compute isolation, rate limiting, abuse detection, authorization, privacy controls, and security program initiatives. The role is highly hands-on, emphasizing code-level fixes, architecture influence, roadmap ownership, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Leads technical security sales engagements through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, and customer consultations. Designs secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, and advises customers on Microsoft Security solutions, including Defender and Sentinel. Develops security posture recommendations, supports XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and AI adoption strategies, while influencing technical decisions and representing Microsoft in developer communities.

Partners with engineering teams to identify and remediate product security risks across the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, secure architecture and coding guidance, security testing, vulnerability prioritization, penetration testing coordination, bug bounty remediation, application monitoring, developer training, and secure deployment practices. The role also advances AI-assisted security tooling, DevSecOps practices, security champions, Kubernetes and container security, and scalable risk-based remediation frameworks.

Own product and infrastructure security across fintech products and cloud environments. Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, secure code reviews, vulnerability management, bug bounty operations, CI/CD security scanning, IAM and secrets management, and security standards. Partner directly with engineering leadership to identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities across backend services, APIs, frontends, Solana programs, and infrastructure.

Assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements. Translate requirements into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails. Support compliance programs, control assessments, and audits, investigate security risks, define remediation, and improve security-control adoption through AI and automation.

Manages the IT and Security team, including helpdesk workflows, project roadmaps, compliance automation, access management, authentication standards, disaster recovery, vendor relationships, and enterprise system rollouts. Partners with product, engineering, and business leaders on security initiatives and complex technical changes. Maintains audit-ready security processes while overseeing remote IT operations, cloud security, identity tools, and technology spend.

Owns end-to-end security engineering, including risk identification, secure-by-default libraries, least-privilege guardrails, developer machine hardening, supply-chain security, and identity and authentication protections. Partners with compliance to implement effective controls for healthcare requirements such as HIPAA and HITRUST. The role requires production software engineering and security expertise, with broad autonomy in a fully remote environment.

Leads the strategy, lifecycle, financial performance, positioning, and growth of Arctic Wolf’s Endpoint Security portfolio. The role oversees product expansion, cross-sell opportunities, competitive analysis, M&A integration, and integration with managed security services. It also leads a global product management team, establishes product metrics and operating cadences, and represents endpoint strategy to executives, customers, analysts, and partners.

Leads enterprise security architecture by assessing threats, performing application security assessments and threat modeling, reviewing designs, and integrating controls into SDLC and DevSecOps environments. Advises business and engineering stakeholders on secure solutions, remediates vulnerabilities, protects APIs, web applications, and cloud workloads, and improves security processes through automation and standardization.

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across products and AWS infrastructure, respond to security incidents, close security tickets, integrate security controls into CI/CD, review code and infrastructure, support SOC 2 and CASA compliance, and strengthen access management, secrets handling, and cloud hardening.

Conduct advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Identify and exploit novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities; develop proof-of-concept exploits, testing methodologies, and research automation; assess AI attack vectors and open-source dependencies; drive remediation and security improvements; advise engineering teams, contribute to roadmaps, mentor researchers, and share findings with the security community.

Conducts advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Responsibilities include discovering and exploiting systemic vulnerabilities, penetration testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits, researching AI and agentic security threats, building automated research tooling, coordinating remediation, mentoring security professionals, and communicating findings to engineering and security communities.

Partners with Sales on enterprise cybersecurity opportunities by leading technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-value engagements, and customer validation. Advises security, identity, infrastructure, IT, risk, and executive stakeholders; explains integrations with network environments; creates technical documentation; delivers training; and supports events. The role requires strong cybersecurity, IAM, enterprise networking, presentation, and complex sales-cycle expertise, with travel typically ranging from 25% to 50%.

Designs and leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture across network, cloud, endpoint, identity, and data environments. Develops security strategies, governance frameworks, and controls; conducts risk assessments, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and incident response. Oversees security tool integration, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and secure development practices. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional guidance to protect business-critical systems and minimize cyber risk.

Own product and protocol security across Jito’s Solana-based products. Responsibilities include threat modeling, secure design and code reviews, deployment hardening, internal audits, onchain monitoring, bug bounty operations, remediation tracking, AI-assisted security testing, and key and asset risk management. The role requires production software engineering experience, strong application security expertise, security automation skills, and familiarity with Web3, crypto, or DeFi.

Provides information security support for federal healthcare systems, including security architecture reviews, firewall and infrastructure initiatives, security impact assessments, mitigating controls, system security plans, SOPs, and POA&M remediation. Advises development teams and customer security organizations on federal security requirements, emerging practices such as Zero Trust and SBOM, network monitoring, authentication, and data security. The role is remote and requires passing an IHS background check for Public Trust eligibility.

Supports security operations by onboarding and troubleshooting network monitoring infrastructure, triaging security-device issues, resolving escalated customer problems, coordinating vendor maintenance, and managing hardware sensors. The role collaborates with SOC analysts, assists with testing and quality assurance, provides customer support, and participates in on-call incident response. Requires network and security administration experience, TCP/IP knowledge, command-line expertise, and troubleshooting across Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Designs, deploys, and manages enterprise cloud security solutions across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include automating security controls, managing AWS WAF and CDK rules, improving policies, patching vulnerabilities, implementing DevSecOps practices, assessing cloud applications and APIs, monitoring security posture, analyzing logs, triaging issues, and supporting compliance and risk initiatives.