Top Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads the design and development of AI-driven enterprise and cloud security solutions. Manages teams delivering data, analytics, and machine learning engineering projects; oversees AI model implementation, data infrastructure, pipelines, and platform deployments. Uses Python and C++ for algorithm development, analyzes data, improves data quality, ensures technical compliance, mentors staff, manages client expectations, and drives innovation across cybersecurity and privacy initiatives.

Leads teams designing and deploying AI-driven enterprise and cloud security solutions. Responsibilities include developing machine learning systems, integrating data infrastructure and pipelines, performing advanced modeling and analysis, and building AI applications with Python, Java, and C++. The role involves client engagement, strategic problem-solving, stakeholder validation, coaching, process innovation, and operational excellence while addressing complex cybersecurity and privacy challenges.

Consult on Oracle application security and compliance: analyze client requirements, implement security controls, perform compliance audits, develop policies, guide regulatory adherence, train and manage junior staff, and help clients mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.

Lead cybersecurity risk and compliance engagements, develop and implement compliance strategies, oversee audits, advise on AML/financial-crime controls, coach teams, validate client outcomes, and promote compliance culture across organizations.

Provide regulatory compliance guidance and cybersecurity risk management to clients. Conduct compliance risk assessments and audits, implement frameworks (ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF), develop compliance programs, analyze data for insights, lead training on AML and financial crime prevention, and build client relationships while upholding professional standards.

Lead client engagements advising on cybersecurity risk and compliance. Develop and implement compliance strategies, conduct risk assessments and audits, apply ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST CSF, manage project planning and budgets, mentor teams, analyze system interactions, and use data to support compliance reporting while ensuring professional standards.

Lead design and implementation of cloud, container, and application security across CSPs (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Manage client relationships and teams, apply DevSecOps practices, perform risk assessments and vulnerability testing, configure policy frameworks (CNAPP), and provide secure coding/cloud security training and mentorship to drive secure delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead client engagements to design and implement security, controls, and compliance within Oracle applications. Manage teams, perform audits, develop governance frameworks, advise on regulatory compliance, and mentor staff to mitigate operational risk and protect sensitive data.

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

Lead design and implementation of cloud security strategies across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Conduct risk assessments, implement IaC and automated enforcement, integrate security scanning into CI/CD, mentor junior staff, build client relationships, and deliver practical solutions to complex cloud security problems while maintaining professional standards.

Lead Workday security and compliance initiatives: analyze client needs, implement security controls and compliance programs, oversee integrations, train clients, mentor teams, and manage project quality to mitigate risk and protect sensitive data.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Assesses customer Falcon environments, identifies security-standard misalignment, recommends remediation, and communicates directly with customers. Documents and resolves issues within SLAs, prepares service reports, partners with internal teams, and coordinates troubleshooting. The role requires cybersecurity experience, customer-facing communication, knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS, threat detection and incident response expertise, relevant education or experience, and cybersecurity certifications. Government customer requirements may include periodic drug testing and background and fingerprint checks.

Protect corporate data through DLP implementation, tuning, alert review, false-positive reduction, and control optimization across web, endpoint, email, cloud, and SaaS environments. The engineer will review data protection programs, improve monitoring and blocking controls, collaborate with business partners, and use automation and emerging AI tools to strengthen security operations.

Lead Affirm’s enterprise AI security review program, threat model LLM and agentic systems, review code and configurations, and develop security guardrails, tooling, policies, and monitoring. Evaluate AI-enabled SaaS vendors, identify emerging vulnerabilities, support incident response, and lead cross-functional initiatives across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance. The role requires expertise in AI security architecture, threat modeling, IAM, cloud infrastructure, policy-as-code, and regulated enterprise environments.

Support day-to-day GRC operations: assess third-party vendors, maintain vendor risk register, track remediation and control evidence, assist with internal control testing and audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS), maintain policies, prepare reporting, and contribute to process improvements.

Deploy and configure Rapid7 security products for post-sales customers, applying security best practices and documenting implementation decisions. Build custom dashboards, reporting workflows, integrations, and data pipelines using Python, SQL, and REST APIs. Support pre-sales scoping, resolve deployment challenges, collaborate across teams, improve internal delivery processes, and occasionally travel for customer engagements.

Leads and mentors a product security engineering team while remaining hands-on. Owns certification, accreditation, DISA STIG hardening, SOC 2, ISO 27001, audit readiness, vulnerability remediation, security tooling, and authorization initiatives. Coordinates with Compliance, Legal, Sales Engineering, and customers; tracks remediation SLAs and certification posture; establishes evidence collection processes; and translates technical security strategy into an executable roadmap.

Lead enterprise eDiscovery and insider-risk investigations by collecting, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing data from cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and repositories. Build AI-powered automation, correlate activity logs into investigative timelines, manage legal holds and governance policies, support digital forensics, and produce structured evidence packages for Security, Legal, HR, and investigative teams.

Administer and improve Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security groups, access reviews, request approvals, audit support, governance documentation, and compliance controls. Evaluate elevated access requests, identify risks, resolve routine issues, coordinate remediation, and escalate complex decisions. Partner with HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders to strengthen policies, processes, and least-privilege access across Workday, Peakon, UKG, Prism, and HR data platforms.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Monitor and investigate cybersecurity alerts, analyze endpoint telemetry, logs, forensic artifacts, malware, and Microsoft 365 activity, then coordinate threat remediation. The analyst also supports escalations, contributes to detection engineering and tuning, and collaborates across the SOC. The role requires knowledge of operating systems, enterprise administration, networking, web security, attacker techniques, and malware analysis while working a remote weekend 4x10 shift after training.

Monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity alerts and intrusions. Analyze EDR telemetry, logs, forensic artifacts, malware, and Microsoft 365 activity; determine root causes and recommend remediation. Support threat-related escalations, contribute to detection engineering and tuning, and collaborate across teams. The role requires familiarity with endpoint attack surfaces, threat actor techniques, Windows and domain administration, networking, web security, and basic malware analysis.

Lead complex security investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, SaaS, and network environments. Own incidents through containment, remediation coordination, documentation, and post-incident review. Tune detections, queries, dashboards, workflows, and SOAR playbooks; improve SOC metrics, threat coverage, alert fidelity, and response processes. Partner on vulnerability and cloud-risk remediation, participate in global on-call rotation, use approved AI capabilities responsibly, and mentor analysts.