Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

Manages enterprise information security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. Develops security policies and frameworks, leads data classification and threat modeling, conducts risk assessments, oversees vulnerability remediation, evaluates security controls, supports audits, and prepares risk metrics and executive reports. Partners with technical teams to embed security requirements and promotes governance best practices across the organization.

The Security Compliance Analyst manages cybersecurity, data privacy, classification, retention, governance, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and ATO documentation. Responsibilities include monitoring cloud environments and system logs, using SIEM tools, analyzing security risks, supporting security policies, reporting incidents, and ensuring compliance throughout the system lifecycle. The role also collaborates with Agile teams and stakeholders to protect sensitive data and resolve information assurance issues.

Lead Uber’s highest-severity security incidents from escalation through containment, recovery, and remediation. Command response teams, make high-consequence decisions, investigate logs and system data, brief executives, conduct post-incident analysis, mentor responders, and improve incident response through simulations, threat modeling, automation, and AI-assisted tooling.

Lead application security engineering across the SDLC using AI-assisted threat modeling, automated security testing, vulnerability prioritization, and secure-by-default controls. Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and AI platform teams to secure applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, and AI/ML systems. Build security automation, CI/CD controls, policy-as-code guardrails, developer enablement, and proactive defenses against emerging threats such as prompt injection and data poisoning.

Design and lead secure AI security solutions for enterprise customers across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Conduct technical discovery, architect integrations spanning AI systems, LLM applications, data pipelines, model layers, and runtime environments, and support presales validations and implementations. Serve as a technical advisor to CISOs and security leaders while partnering with Sales, Product, and R&D to guide deployments, resolve escalations, and influence product strategy.

Own AWS cloud security posture and vulnerability management using Wiz and AWS-native services. Build Infrastructure as Code guardrails, secure CI/CD pipelines, automate vulnerability workflows, and operate WAF protections. Partner with DevOps and engineering on IAM, network segmentation, containers, secrets, data exposure, telemetry, threat modeling, and application security. Drive projects independently while reducing organizational risk.

Staff Security Engineer partners with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to embed security into application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD processes. Responsibilities include secure design and code review, vulnerability remediation, AWS cloud security, WAF tuning, security automation in Python, SIEM and log pipeline contributions, endpoint controls, and security standards. The role requires deep expertise in application security, cloud security, or security automation, plus threat modeling and independent project ownership.

Leads KeyBank’s Red Team and offensive security program, including adversary emulation, penetration testing, physical and application assessments, cloud security testing, AI security evaluations, and purple team exercises. Develops testing strategy, methodologies, tooling, metrics, and maturity roadmaps; mentors engineers; coordinates internal and third-party engagements; validates remediation and attack paths; and presents findings and strategic recommendations to executives and cybersecurity stakeholders.

Leads application security engineering for enterprise systems, including SAST and DAST scanning, security control implementation, web application protection, and pipeline development. Uses Veracode, Burp tools, Linux, and programming or scripting languages to identify and remediate vulnerabilities. Applies OWASP, CVSS, CWE, federal compliance standards, and secure architecture practices while supporting scalable digital transformation initiatives. Requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

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.

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.

Architects and maintains cybersecurity infrastructure, policies, standards, and compliance programs. Leads vulnerability reviews, remediation, risk assessments, incident response, forensic investigations, security audits, and regulatory compliance efforts. Develops security strategies, certification methodologies, monitoring plans, and disaster recovery/business continuity architectures. Coordinates security implementations across IT and business departments, reports to the CISO, and promotes security awareness and training.

Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts, phishing, vulnerabilities, and incidents for managed security clients. Conduct threat hunts, collect evidence, identify root causes, perform containment and remediation, and create incident reports and SOPs. Support deployment of security toolsets, collaborate with analysts and engineers, communicate with clients, and participate in after-hours or on-call coverage.

This role involves owning the security architecture for AI platforms on GCP, designing guardrails, and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud security, specifically with GCP services, Kubernetes security, and AI/ML security practices.

Leads an engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating data security products and controls. Provides technical direction, hands-on engineering leadership, and delivery ownership across DLP policy, data discovery and classification, data access controls, policy-as-code workflows, automation, integrations, testing, deployment, reliability, and operational support. Translates data security requirements into scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and driving adoption of secure engineering practices.

Lead product security architecture and offensive testing, including threat modeling, architecture reviews, penetration testing across web applications, APIs, mobile clients, and cloud infrastructure, secure design definition, code reviews, and remediation validation. Partner with engineering teams on authentication, authorization, data protection, trust boundaries, and cloud-native security while communicating risks and leading cross-functional security initiatives.

Lead design, assessment, and operationalization of secure Google Cloud environments. Advise on GCP security strategy, posture assessments, SIEM/Chronicle integration, CNAPP/CSPM tooling, Security Command Center implementation, Vertex AI security, remediation roadmaps, and delivery of architecture, runbooks, and executive advisory. Mentor consultants and develop repeatable security methodologies.

Lead and deliver Google Cloud security architecture, posture assessments, and operationalization. Advise on GCP security strategy, implement Security Command Center and cloud-native security tooling, integrate findings into SIEM/SecOps, guide AI workload security, produce executive reports and remediation roadmaps, and mentor consultants while driving repeatable methodologies and delivery quality.

Build security tooling and customer-facing transparency systems; oversee SBOM, vulnerability management, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty programs. Assess vulnerability severity and exploitability, publish security advisories and CVE records, coordinate disclosures, answer customer security inquiries, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, customers, partners, and security researchers. Apply AI to security workflows and use software engineering and automation practices to improve security processes.

Owns company-wide security across product, infrastructure, corporate systems, and IT. Responsibilities include fixing authentication and authorization issues, managing keys and secrets, hardening internal tools, improving permissions, contributing to backend engineering, and leading security reviews, incident response, and security tooling. This hands-on role requires broad security expertise, strong software engineering ability, and comfort working in an ambiguous early-stage startup environment.

Manage security operations and lead a security engineering team defending endpoints, SaaS, infrastructure, and corporate systems. Serve as senior Incident Commander, oversee detection and response using CrowdStrike, conduct cybersecurity risk assessments, and improve vulnerability, patch, access, and configuration management. Build detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud signals while partnering with AppSec and technical leaders. Lead the company’s AI security strategy and develop specialized security capabilities.

Build and operate automated security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic-material lifecycles, security telemetry, compliance automation, policy-as-code, threat modeling, and CI/CD security controls. Develop agentic AI workflows using tools such as Claude Code and MCP integrations. Support incident response, review security architecture, automate evidence collection, and partner with engineering, audit, risk, vendors, and clients to improve security posture at scale.

Build and operate reliable security infrastructure across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and log analytics, OpenSearch, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and EKS security, cross-account cloud infrastructure, Python automation, AI-assisted engineering workflows, compliance evidence collection, incident support, and on-call operations. The role partners with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams to automate manual processes and improve platform resilience.

Lead and develop the Security team while owning the company-wide security and compliance program. Responsibilities include managing SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, audits, policies, vendor risk, security awareness, and customer security communications. The role also provides technical direction for security tooling, cloud security, identity and access management, application security, vulnerability management, architecture reviews, and threat modeling.