Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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.

Provides pre-sales technical support and technical account management for Vectra’s cybersecurity platform. Leads customer discovery, product demonstrations, proofs of concept, technology reviews, integrations, and security architecture discussions. Builds technical relationships with customers and channel partners, supports sales teams, collaborates on deployments and product projects, and maintains expertise in security technologies, networking, cloud security, attacker progression, incident response, and competitive offerings. Regional travel is required as needed.

Lead the creation and growth of a new OT/IoT cybersecurity practice, owning its P&L, offerings, pricing, partnerships, hiring, delivery quality, and go-to-market strategy. Serve as a senior technical SME and trusted advisor for client assessments, regulatory compliance, executive workshops, roadmaps, and security engagements. Shape and close consulting opportunities, develop methodologies and deliverables, manage teams, and advise organizations on ICS/SCADA, segmentation, monitoring, IT/OT convergence, and AI-related risks.

Leads the organization’s cybersecurity program, including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, security architecture, automation, and AI adoption. Manages security staff, vendors, MDR providers, projects, policies, audits, and operational improvements while reporting risks and performance to senior leadership. The role also drives security awareness, cross-functional collaboration, incident preparedness, and team development.

Design and scale automation and AI-driven solutions for security governance, risk, and compliance. Build pipelines to collect and validate evidence, integrate GRC platforms with security and IT systems, automate control monitoring and audit preparation, and deploy LLM-based workflows for testing, policy mapping, and risk reporting. Establish AI guardrails and quality controls while collaborating with security, engineering, data, and business teams to improve compliance and security posture.

Leads technical security sales engagements through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, and customer consultations. Designs secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, and advises customers on Microsoft Security solutions, including Defender and Sentinel. Develops security posture recommendations, supports XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and AI adoption strategies, while influencing technical decisions and representing Microsoft in developer communities.

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.

Own and advance cybersecurity for satellites, flight software, ground systems, mission networks, communication links, and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, SIEM detection engineering, network defense, cloud security, DLP, security assessments, awareness training, and compliance with CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-171, and ITAR/EAR requirements. The role collaborates with aerospace, software, systems, and compliance teams and requires expertise in mission-system security.

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Designs and advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.

Secure Wiz’s products, CI/CD systems, and production cloud infrastructure through threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management, detection and response, cloud and Kubernetes security baselines, policy-as-code, and automation. Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and Federal teams to implement scalable security controls, remediate risks, support FedRAMP requirements, and promote secure-by-design development practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Microsoft's AI Safety Platform, building observability, detection, investigation, threat-hunting, and distributed data-processing capabilities. Design attack detection infrastructure, correlate high-volume telemetry, apply AI security research, conduct security and privacy reviews, and partner across engineering, science, and incident response teams. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex AI security systems.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS cloud security policies, architecture, and technologies. The role oversees firewalls, DLP, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, logging, IAM, incident response, compliance, and remediation. It provides security guidance for AWS solutions, supports migrations of mission-critical applications, researches new technologies, documents standards, presents to varied audiences, and mentors less experienced engineers. The position requires strong AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code proficiency, knowledge of regulated healthcare environments, and experience securing highly available cloud and serverless architectures.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Own security partnerships for Netflix Marketing and Animation, advising leaders on risk, GenAI adoption, access controls, content protection, architecture, and remediation. Lead risk assessments, business risk profiles, metrics, and pre-release content security initiatives. Support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries while translating complex security concerns into actionable business guidance across application, cloud, identity, and data domains.

Supports cybersecurity risk management and authorization for the VA.gov Platform. Assesses NIST security controls, performs gap and risk analyses, maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, and authorization evidence, and translates deficiencies into engineering remediation. The role supports ATO/cATO readiness, OSCAL automation, threat modeling, secure design reviews, stakeholder coordination, incident response, and continuous synchronization between technical changes and security documentation.

Build and operate infrastructure security platforms centered on workload identity, service-to-service authentication, authorization, and short-lived credentials. Replace static secrets with identity-based systems, develop identity-authenticated proxies and APIs, and unify authorization policy management. Partner with platform and application teams to drive adoption, migrate legacy systems, and ensure reliable production infrastructure with strong developer experience.

Lead secure design and code reviews, conduct penetration testing and code audits, build secure-by-default systems, improve security tooling and vulnerability management, operate responsible disclosure programs, remediate production vulnerabilities, and address customer security concerns. The role partners closely with engineering teams and requires strong coding, risk assessment, offensive security, and security communication skills.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP authorization and continuous monitoring. Reviews cloud service provider architectures, security controls, authorization packages, assessment reports, vulnerabilities, and compliance documentation against NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, advises government program leads and CISOs on risk posture, and supports secure, compliant, resilient system design.

Lead customer security strategy and architecture using Microsoft security products. Assess security posture, design cloud-native solutions, remove technical blockers, author customer insights, and support complex enterprise deployments to accelerate adoption and secure cloud/hybrid environments.