Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Build Ent’s endpoint data-protection layer for classifying sensitive data, tracing provenance, and enforcing egress policies across devices, applications, networks, removable media, browsers, and AI tools. Develop cross-platform interception and content inspection capabilities, integrate on-device language models, optimize performance, produce forensic evidence, investigate compatibility issues, and improve detection precision for enterprise customers.

Deliver cybersecurity assessments, architecture reviews, maturity evaluations, security roadmaps, and implementation guidance for enterprise clients. Assess on-premises, cloud, hybrid, identity, OT, and ICS environments; identify risks and security gaps; produce reports; and present recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. Support incident response and post-incident improvements, collaborate with engagement managers and specialists, contribute to consulting methodologies, and stay current on threats and security best practices. Travel is approximately 20%.

Lead architecture and scaling of an automated, AI-driven vulnerability detection and remediation platform across cloud, containers, and applications. Correlate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, implement AI-assisted triage, run red/purple team validation, and build automated remediation pipelines integrated into CI/CD for continuous compliance and risk reduction.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise IAM solutions across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments. The role drives Zero Trust modernization, identity automation, access governance, privileged access controls, threat monitoring, and automated response. Responsibilities include evaluating security technologies, mitigating identity risks, supporting compliance and audit readiness, and establishing security standards. The engineer collaborates with infrastructure, application, and security teams and participates in rotational on-call, weekend, and holiday support.

Own and evolve the application security program: embed secure SDLC practices, partner with engineering on design and code reviews, manage AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/ASM/WAF/mobile), harden AWS deployments, integrate security into CI/CD, and lead vulnerability investigation and remediation efforts.

Lead security across applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; run secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture discussions; build automation and tooling to prevent issues; harden authentication and access control; investigate incidents and manage disclosures; partner with engineering teams to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments.

Own strategic post-sales relationships with enterprise customers, advising them on AI security and governance. Lead discovery, define measurable outcomes, drive adoption, support retention and expansion, and coordinate Product, Engineering, Security, Support, and operationalization teams. Translate CISO-level strategy, GRC concerns, business objectives, and technical requirements into practical solution strategies while identifying new AI security use cases and growth opportunities.

Monitors, detects, investigates, and responds to enterprise cybersecurity threats within a Security Operations Center. Responsibilities include SIEM and EDR alert triage, incident response, endpoint and identity threat analysis, cloud security monitoring, vulnerability remediation support, and investigation of phishing, malware, ransomware, and unauthorized access. The analyst also supports Zero Trust initiatives, SOAR automation, playbook development, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of security operations.

Owns security operations and compliance for a multi-tenant GPUaaS platform. Maintains SOC 2 and SOC 3 programs, coordinates audits and penetration tests, manages IAM and security tooling, leads vulnerability management and incident response, supports customer security reviews and contracts, maintains policies, and drives security awareness and phishing programs.

Secure Temporal’s development pipeline, product, and customer execution environments. Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture, threat modeling, risk assessments, code and software supply-chain security, vulnerability triage, Kubernetes hardening, multi-tenant isolation, and responsible AI security. Participate in on-call rotations and help establish actionable security policies and practices across the organization.

Lead technical response to security incidents across Twilio's global cloud infrastructure. Triage, contain, remediate, document incidents, drive post-incident improvements, automate workflows (SOAR), extend SIEM capabilities, participate in on-call rotation, mentor teammates, and collaborate with R&D to improve detection and threat mitigation.

Leads cybersecurity solutions engineering for government and education customers across managed security, network monitoring, cloud security, and related services. Provides technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proofs of concept, onboarding, deployment guidance, escalations, and post-sales support. Partners with sales and technical account teams, mentors engineers, develops enablement materials, informs product strategy, identifies expansion opportunities, and manages customer activity in Salesforce.

Designs, automates, and supports complex cybersecurity solutions across cloud and infrastructure environments. Responsibilities include security alert monitoring, incident and vulnerability management, security architecture, SIEM tuning, access reviews, compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2 and CMMC, risk assessments, third-party security reviews, scripting, and secure technology guidance. The role also mentors team members and partners with technical and business stakeholders to improve security posture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drive Cyber OT security sales in Houston/Western US, targeting Energy, Power, Life Sciences, and Mining. Build and execute a sales plan to meet a $9–12M quota, develop new business, maintain client relationships, customize OT security solutions, deliver demos and training, forecast sales, and represent Honeywell at industry events. Remote role with required Houston residence and ~50% travel to client sites.

Lead and deliver software security consulting engagements including penetration testing, secure code review, threat modeling, architecture security analysis, and reverse engineering. Manage client relationships, lead project teams, produce deliverables, and help embed security practices in SDLC while mentoring staff and supporting business development.

Lead information and technology risk, control, and governance activities. Oversee audit, business continuity, and compliance efforts; coordinate risk mitigation, metrics, reporting and stakeholder communication; manage and develop staff; prioritize cross-functional decisions and solve complex regulatory and compliance issues.

Lead technology risk and information security efforts across the organization: assess and mitigate IT risks, coordinate with Business, Legal, Compliance, Audit and IT teams, represent Technology Risk in governance forums, develop metrics and reporting, raise awareness, and manage and mentor a professional staff to ensure regulatory and continuity compliance.

Design, implement, and support corporate network security infrastructure including firewall administration (Cisco/Palo Alto), network device configuration, risk assessments, standards development, and 2nd/3rd level troubleshooting for a global environment.

Lead and enhance HKA's Azure infrastructure and Microsoft security stack. Manage cloud operations, identity and access controls, Zero Trust implementations, monitoring, incident response, threat modeling, risk remediation, and compliance alignment across a global hybrid environment.

Lead and operationalize an enterprise application security program: define AppSec governance, embed security into SDLC/CI-CD, implement DevSecOps controls (SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets scanning, artifact validation), drive secure developer environments, threat modeling, testing, centralized defect management, and developer training aligned to Zero Trust.