Top Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Leads technical security engagements involving presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design, and production-ready pilots. Designs and proves Microsoft and third-party cloud security, compliance, privacy, XDR, zero trust, and data protection solutions. Collaborates with sales, consulting, and partner teams, resolves technical and competitive blockers, influences strategy, and guides customer implementations. The role requires strong technical pre-sales or consulting experience and expertise in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.

Lead application security across the SDLC, partnering with engineering teams on secure architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and cloud services. Conduct manual web application and API testing, improve automated CI/CD security controls, establish secure coding standards, assess third-party risks, support vulnerability management and incident response, and ensure healthcare compliance. The role also develops enterprise-wide security policies and evaluates emerging security technologies.

Own application security across cloud services, APIs, data pipelines, and edge-deployed applications. Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, code reviews, vulnerability assessments, and remediation. Build CI/CD security tooling, automation, and secure-by-default developer frameworks while maturing the SDLC, supply-chain security, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty processes. Partner with engineering and security operations, provide incident expertise, and deliver developer security training.

Designs and maintains cloud and application security controls across AWS and Azure. Leads IAM, network segmentation, PAM, workload protection, CI/CD, container security, incident response, threat modeling, code scanning, and penetration testing. Partners with engineering and product teams to improve security posture, secure development practices, compliance, and cyber resilience. Provides technical guidance, training, metrics, and hands-on architecture, code review, and validation support.

Establish and enforce security controls across Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud environments for a federal health customer. Manage IAM federation, least-privilege access, centralized monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security tooling. Validate deployments against FedRAMP High, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 requirements, support zero-trust architecture, and collaborate with governance, audit, security, and engineering teams. The role also provides technical leadership and develops cloud security standards.

Implement and validate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security controls for a federal health customer. Responsibilities include securing IAM, networks, encryption, monitoring, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Security Advisor, threat intelligence, key management, SIEM integrations, and Infrastructure as Code automation. The engineer will collaborate with cloud operations, migration, application, and systems teams while establishing technical security standards for cloud and on-premises environments.

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.

Build and scale the application security program by integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling into CI/CD pipelines; define Secure SDLC processes and threat modeling practices; manage bug bounty triage and metrics; conduct Java and Python code reviews; deliver secure coding training; develop security champions; and support vulnerability disclosures and security communications.

Lead the technical presales process for Proofpoint’s data security and insider risk solutions. Partner with sales teams, conduct technical discovery, design security architectures, and manage proof-of-concept and production evaluations. Present solutions to customers, support deployments and training, collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product Management, and Support, and provide customer insights to improve products. The role also develops internal documentation, training, and repeatable sales engineering processes.

Supports enterprise cybersecurity and GRC programs through third-party risk assessments, security testing coordination, corrective action tracking, policy development, compliance support, incident response planning, disaster recovery exercises, and enforcement of technical and administrative controls. Partners with engineering, operations, managed security providers, and internal stakeholders to strengthen security posture across cloud and hybrid environments.

Owns company-wide security operations, cloud and infrastructure security, incident response, zero-trust architecture, blockchain treasury controls, compliance, privacy, production reliability, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, represents the company to auditors and customers, and builds security automation across GCP, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Ethereum infrastructure.

Lead territory sales for Honeywell Cyber OT security, develop and execute strategic plans to hit a $9–12M quota, pursue new business in Energy/Power/Life Sciences/Mining, customize OT security solutions with internal teams, run demos and training, manage forecasts and reports, and represent the company at industry events while maintaining client relationships.

Leads enterprise security architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and requirements across cloud adoption and technology modernization. Assesses security controls, recommends remediation, evaluates emerging security technologies, and advises on designs and configurations. Partners with business and technical leaders, communicates risks, mentors architects, and drives enterprise security initiatives. Requires extensive cybersecurity and architecture experience, cloud expertise, security certifications, and willingness to travel.

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.

Lead Pomelo Care’s enterprise security governance, risk, and compliance program. Own SOC 2 Type II and HITRUST certification lifecycles, security policies, access governance, HIPAA risk assessments, awareness training, control monitoring, incident response, and third-party risk assessments. Partner with engineering leadership to align technical roadmaps with security strategy, represent the company during audits and partner due diligence, and report security posture and program maturity to executives.

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.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

The Senior Security Engineer architects, implements, and supports enterprise security capabilities across vulnerability management, cloud security, identity, endpoint, application security, and security architecture. The role leads security initiatives, resolves complex platform issues, develops automation and AI-assisted workflows, establishes documentation and reporting standards, and mentors security engineers and analysts while partnering across infrastructure, application, network, cloud, and security teams.

Leads the company’s information security operations and reports to the CISO. Oversees SIEM, threat detection, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, SOC 2 Type II compliance, third-party risk, security awareness, cloud and endpoint security, and regulatory cybersecurity coordination. Manages security policies, breach readiness, tabletop exercises, KPIs, audits, and emerging technology evaluations while partnering with IT, infrastructure, compliance, regulators, and executive leadership.

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.