Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Lead public sector security compliance initiatives, including FedRAMP continuous monitoring, audits, certifications, GRC strategy, compliance automation, documentation, customer support, and regulatory analysis. Collaborate with IT, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, auditors, and government customers to strengthen compliance across GitLab’s SaaS and self-managed offerings.

Develops secure, isolated attack scenarios across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Reproduces vulnerabilities, builds multi-step attack chains, creates automated graders and reward signals, and validates outcomes using system state and telemetry. The role also develops attack variants and benign comparisons to evaluate AI security agents, partnering with threat researchers, AI engineers, and environment engineers.

Lead security reviews, code audits, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and mitigation efforts for Microsoft Windows services. Develop reusable security tools and agents, identify attack vectors and architectural risks, demonstrate exploit impact, and collaborate with product engineering teams to design scalable defenses and improve security investments.

Designs, deploys, and manages enterprise cloud security solutions across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include automating security controls, managing AWS WAF and CDK rules, improving policies, patching vulnerabilities, implementing DevSecOps practices, assessing cloud applications and APIs, monitoring security posture, analyzing logs, triaging issues, and supporting compliance and risk initiatives.

Architect and engineer multi-tenant SIEM, SOAR, EDR, telemetry, and cloud security platforms for managed security services. Build detection content, automate response workflows, optimize log ingestion, and secure customer connectivity. Lead technical discovery, onboarding, security assessments, remediation planning, escalations, solution design, and customer advisory engagements. Create architectures, runbooks, and documentation while shaping the MSSP technology strategy.

Manages information security risks, vendor and third-party risk reviews, mitigation plans, policy exceptions, and compliance reporting. Partners with stakeholders and Enterprise Risk Management to maintain risk policies within tolerance. Serves as a technical expert, supports risk awareness and accountability, monitors security controls, and contributes to operational goals. The role requires expertise in IT audit, security monitoring, access management, encryption, networking, incident response, SOX compliance, and project management.

Leads enterprise security architecture by assessing threats, performing application security assessments and threat modeling, reviewing designs, and integrating controls into SDLC and DevSecOps environments. Advises business and engineering stakeholders on secure solutions, remediates vulnerabilities, protects APIs, web applications, and cloud workloads, and improves security processes through automation and standardization.

Engineer and operate SIEM and SOAR platforms supporting SOC and MDR services. Responsibilities include log-source onboarding, parsing, enrichment, detection engineering, playbook automation, alert and dashboard development, end-to-end pipeline troubleshooting, vendor escalations, customer onboarding, ingest-volume management, documentation, and platform incident response. The role serves as the technical escalation point and participates in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Monitor emerging vulnerabilities, assess exploitability and business risk, prioritize remediation, and develop vulnerability intelligence frameworks. Implement asset detection and monitoring across cloud and data-center environments, maintain vulnerability management KPIs, communicate security posture to technical and executive stakeholders, use CrowdStrike Falcon capabilities, and build security tooling. The role requires scripting, threat intelligence research, cloud and Linux experience, cross-functional collaboration, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Designs, deploys, and supports Cribl data models and log ingestion pipelines within an enterprise security environment. Supports SIEM, XDR, vulnerability management, DLP, endpoint security, Linux security sensors, and incident detection. Develops automation using Python and Bash, applies security controls, performs system hardening, contributes to threat mitigation, and maintains technical documentation. Collaborates with security architects to implement solutions aligned with business, regulatory, and risk requirements.

Leads regional enterprise security sales by serving as a cloud security expert, shaping opportunities, advising account teams, managing executive relationships, and orchestrating technical teams and partners. Conducts architecture reviews, demos, proof-of-concepts, pilots, ROI/TCO analyses, and consultative engagements to promote Microsoft security solutions, Zero Trust adoption, and customer business outcomes.

Adversarially test and strengthen Generative AI models against cyber-CBRNE threats by designing red-team prompts, jailbreaks, multi-turn attacks, and scenario-based evaluations; develop test suites, taxonomies, and actionable mitigations while documenting vulnerabilities and maintaining threat and AI-safety expertise.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, support security reviews before production, and communicate risks and remediation priorities to engineering teams.

Leads architecture and implementation of Microsoft Red Team visibility, telemetry, monitoring, detection, alerting, deconfliction, and operational security capabilities. Designs scalable services and data pipelines, maintains authoritative operational asset inventories, identifies systemic security gaps, and drives durable engineering solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, debugging, incident response, mentorship, and cross-organizational influence while enabling authentic Red Team operations with strong defensive visibility and control.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP Cloud Service Provider assessments. Reviews full-stack architectures, authorization packages, security controls, policies, assessment reports, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests for compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, supports continuous monitoring, advises government program leaders and CISOs, and provides security recommendations for cloud systems.

Perform offensive security research and engineering for Windows: discover vulnerabilities, develop PoC mitigations and tools (fuzzers/agents), conduct code and design reviews, partner with product teams, and engage external researchers to improve OS security.

Build, secure, automate, and operate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure while supporting HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance. Responsibilities include Terraform development, CI/CD security, IAM, vulnerability management, observability, SIEM integrations, incident response, infrastructure hardening, scripting, technical documentation, and cross-functional automation. The role also participates in on-call coverage and evaluates new security and infrastructure tools.

Build and scale application security for a SaaS platform by integrating SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, and container/IaC checks into CI/CD. Partner with engineering and DevOps teams on threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and secure development practices. The role also supports compliance goals and translates security risks clearly to engineers.

Leads enterprise security architecture for cloud and on-premises systems supporting a federal agency. Develops security standards, reference architectures, diagrams, policies, procedures, and hardening guidance; assesses architectures and security postures; identifies gaps and privacy requirements; supports Zero Trust, RMF, acquisition, compliance, risk management, and technical briefings. Partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into secure technical solutions and maintains architecture documentation throughout the system lifecycle.

Designs and maintains Cribl data models and security log pipelines, routing and transforming telemetry into enterprise SIEM platforms. Supports SIEM, XDR, vulnerability management, DLP, endpoint security, Linux sensors, system hardening, threat detection, and defensive security architecture. Develops Python and Bash automation, integrations, and security controls while troubleshooting complex data issues. The role is fully remote within the United States, includes occasional South Carolina onsite work, and requires on-call participation.

Implement and configure SailPoint IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud solutions, including identity lifecycle management, access certifications, provisioning, integrations, workflows, rules, and application onboarding. Lead or support IIQ-to-ISC migrations, gather client requirements, create technical documentation, troubleshoot deployments, and support UAT and hypercare. The role also involves client interaction, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to reusable delivery assets in a remote consulting environment.

Leads security operations and corporate IT for a healthcare technology company handling PHI. Responsibilities include incident response, application and cloud security, IAM, endpoint management, vendor reviews, security policies, compliance support for HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST, and management of three direct reports. The role also builds AI-driven automation tools and workflows for IT and security operations while partnering with executives, engineers, customers, auditors, and compliance leaders.

Monitor, investigate, and respond to global security incidents; lead incident response as an incident commander; develop security alerts, playbooks, automated actions, and escalation workflows; conduct threat hunting and threat intelligence research; improve detection, containment, and post-incident processes; collaborate with stakeholders; and participate in an on-call rotation.

Supports managed security clients through threat hunting, security event analysis, detection use-case tuning, incident documentation, remediation guidance, metrics, root cause analysis, and process improvement. Provides escalation support, mentorship, technical oversight, and collaboration with security engineering and architecture teams. Requires experience with enterprise SIEM and case-management tools, SOAR platforms, vulnerability scanning, cybersecurity frameworks, technical documentation, and 24/7 managed services operations.