Top Entry Level Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Represent security compliance with customers, map frameworks to Zscaler capabilities, create reusable playbooks, educate sales teams, and complete security questionnaires and assessments. Translate technical security and data-protection concepts into business and sales messaging while supporting frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, DORA, GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA. The role requires customer-facing credibility, compliance expertise, security architecture knowledge, and the ability to leverage AI-driven workflows.

Lead macOS security research, including Endpoint Security API telemetry, malware reverse engineering, attack emulation, EDR bypass research, and proof-of-concept development. Collaborate with Detection Engineering, Product, and Engineering to operationalize findings, track Apple platform changes, improve detection coverage, document risks, and mentor teammates. The role also involves building ephemeral research infrastructure and representing the company through technical publications, speaking, and media engagement.

Own and execute the application security program, including SIEM management, threat detection, architecture and code reviews, vulnerability management, security testing, incident response, forensic investigations, and security tooling. Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to remediate vulnerabilities, promote secure coding, develop training, and improve enterprise security through cloud, container, compliance, and monitoring practices.

Lead hands-on product security architecture across GitLab, including design reviews, threat modeling, systemic risk remediation, security standards, prototypes, and reusable developer guardrails. Partner with engineering and product leaders, secure distributed systems and software supply chains, guide AI coding tool security, mentor security engineers, and influence technical direction through proactive architecture and clear communication.

Triage bug bounty and vulnerability management reports, validate findings, assess severity, identify duplicates, and coordinate remediation through closure. Collaborate with PSIRT, engineering, legal, communications, customer success, and security teams. Support CVE assignments as a CNA representative, communicate with researchers and customers, maintain accurate records, monitor operational metrics, and improve vulnerability-handling procedures, runbooks, and documentation.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, guide security monitoring and incident response, translate complex objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through code and design reviews.

Lead engineering for enterprise network security platforms, including firewall infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible automation, APIs, and scripting. Troubleshoot complex network, cloud, and security issues; establish engineering standards; improve reliability and scalability; manage platform upgrades and vulnerability remediation; and provide technical leadership across engineering, networking, application, cloud, and security teams.

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.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Monitor, investigate, triage, and respond to security events across customer environments. The analyst examines endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and log telemetry; supports incident containment and remediation; documents investigations; communicates with customers; escalates high-risk incidents; and improves detection, automation, and security operations processes.

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.

Architect, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain Splunk instances for clients and internal teams. Develop security use cases, configure alerts, evaluate and prioritize security data sources, and guide log collection and forwarding to SIEM platforms. Collaborate with clients, SOC analysts, and project coordinators, participate in project meetings, and support a rotating on-call schedule.

Create challenging coding tasks for AI systems, implement deterministic solution verifiers, and contribute backend expertise across feature development, bug fixing, refactoring, performance optimization, testing, and security reviews. The role requires strong programming and software engineering skills, with cybersecurity experience in secure coding, application security, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or security-focused code reviews preferred.

Build and secure scalable backend services and APIs while debugging, optimizing performance, implementing features, refactoring codebases, and conducting security reviews and penetration testing. The role also involves automated testing, code review, vulnerability assessment, and contributing domain expertise to training next-generation AI systems.

Build and operate scalable security tooling, applications, APIs, and automation for CrowdStrike’s global multi-cloud Product Security environment. Responsibilities include software supply chain security, AI-powered vulnerability discovery, platform visibility, risk assessments, CI/CD, SRE operations, datastore management, monitoring, and incident response support. The role partners across Product Security to define tooling strategy and maintain mission-critical security services.

Own identity and endpoint security across the company, including SSO, MFA, access provisioning, access reviews, MDM, EDR, device security baselines, and IT workflows. Respond to identity and endpoint incidents, assess vendor and SaaS integration risks, support secure AI tool adoption, automate security processes, and help develop scalable security policies and controls.

Leads data security governance across database monitoring, encryption, certificate and key management, HSM operations, data masking, and cryptographic asset inventory. Manages a security governance team, develops controls and procedures, supports audits and regulatory inquiries, partners cross-functionally, and drives post-quantum cryptography readiness, automation, metrics, service reliability, and operational maturity.

Own security partnerships for Customer Service and Creative Technology. Advise on GenAI and GenMedia security, customer data environments, cloud infrastructure, third-party tools, training data governance, and risk treatment. Build business risk profiles, drive remediation, report security posture, and support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries.

Designs, builds, operates, and integrates workforce identity and access management solutions for employees, contractors, and partners. Responsibilities include federated authentication, provisioning and deprovisioning, identity governance, compliance, access management, vendor integrations, acquisition-related migrations, solution rollout, and cloud-based service operation. The role requires hands-on IAM expertise, strong communication, programming familiarity, CI/CD experience, and AWS experience.

Own FAR.AI’s internal IT and security function, including accounts, devices, identity and access management, onboarding, offboarding, office networking, support, endpoint hardening, data protection, governance, and vendor risk. The role will remediate security gaps using threat modeling, automate self-service infrastructure, partner across teams, communicate and manage change, and hire and lead an IT Coordinator.

Designs and secures enterprise AI platform foundations for mission-critical environments. Responsibilities include threat modeling, tenant isolation, identity and authorization architecture, secure CI/CD, compliance-by-design, and protection of systems executing untrusted code, tools, or agent actions. The role partners with client engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant platform capabilities.

Manage vulnerability scanning, patching, threat detection, incident response, identity and access management, data loss prevention, vendor security due diligence, and complex tier 3 security support. The role also leads security investigations, remediation, root cause analysis, policy development, control testing, and implementation of security solutions while maintaining documentation and communicating risks to leadership.

The Product Security Engineer partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture and security reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation planning, security-tool ownership, automation, secure coding guidance, incident response, and assessing risks in cloud and AI-enabled products. The role requires strong application security, identity, authentication, authorization, coding, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.