Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Kansas City, MO

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.

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 Fabric's security program and corporate IT operations, including identity, endpoint, cloud, application, and vendor security. Hire and manage a small team, run incident response, handle customer security questionnaires, partner on SOC2/HITRUST/HIPAA control implementation, and set practical security policy while remaining hands-on in operations and tooling.

Senior individual contributor who researches and delivers thought leadership on application security for enterprise applications (ERP/CRM). Produces insights, advises CIOs, supports sales and events, mentors junior analysts, and builds security strategies, roadmaps, metrics, and vulnerability testing programs for major vendors and third-party tools.

Lead research and deliver strategic and tactical advice on AI data security and AI ecosystem data management. Produce written research, briefings, and presentations; advise clients and stakeholders; grow networks of thought leaders and vendors; ensure research integrity and collaborate across Gartner to support deliverables. Travel up to 25%.

Lead security advisory engagements focused on cybersecurity and data governance. Conduct program assessments, design and operationalize data governance programs, produce client deliverables, mentor consultants, support sales with scoping and proposals, and contribute to practice development, thought leadership, and forecasting to drive advisory services revenue.

Lead go-to-market strategy for the Security practice, develop and package security solutions, enable sales and delivery, build partner ecosystem, drive business development and marketing, and mentor security teams to achieve revenue and growth targets.

Assess and mitigate security risks across applications, systems, and networks. Perform security assessments, incident investigations, and compliance work (NIST 800-53/800-171). Design and deploy mitigations, provide security guidance, and build automation, scripts, and tools to improve detection and response.

Lead technical marketing for API, AI agent, and application security by deploying and testing Akamai products, building PoCs, demos, labs, and attack simulations, creating technical content and enablement, validating messaging, and presenting technical briefings while collaborating with product, engineering, and field teams.

Senior pre-sales architect focused on network and infrastructure security. Support sales of DDoS mitigation, Security Posture Management, and DNS products (including Prolexic). Engage customers with demos, deep technical discussions, trials, and solution evangelism. Collaborate with sales and product management to influence roadmap and drive adoption.

Hands-on senior security engineer responsible for designing and automating security controls across cloud and application stacks. Lead implementation of PAM/JIT, vulnerability management, SAST/DAST/SCA integration, security automation (Python/Go/Terraform/Tines), endpoint and DLP protections, cloud network hardening, key management, SIEM correlation, and developer-focused security tooling and reviews to protect PHI and advance security posture.

Design, implement, and automate cloud security controls (primarily AWS, with GCP work) using code (Python, Go) and IaC (Terraform). Build authorization and JIT access systems, harden containers and CI/CD pipelines, integrate data classification with access controls, automate security operations and incident response, and partner with engineering to embed HIPAA-compliant, secure-by-design practices.

Design, build, and automate cloud security controls (primarily AWS, with GCP considerations) using code and IaC. Implement authorization frameworks, JIT access, container hardening, security tooling, SIEM integrations, and CI/CD security. Partner with engineering to integrate data classification, remediate legacy environments, conduct threat modeling, and develop incident response automation and documentation.

Own and operate the organisation's accounts, access, and cloud subscriptions; set practical security standards; identify and remediate risks hands-on; manage onboarding/offboarding access across core platforms; partner with engineers and researchers to ensure secure, usable controls.

Lead and grow the security operations team to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across endpoints, identity, email, and cloud. Develop SecOps strategy, incident response playbooks, run tabletop exercises, manage SIEM/EDR/email security, drive identity governance, vendor/MSSP relationships, and report security KPIs to leadership.

Manage and perform red and purple team engagements, external/internal penetration tests, wireless/web/mobile/embedded assessments, ransomware readiness and social engineering. Develop tools, incorporate threat intelligence, present findings to technical and executive audiences, and mentor and expand offensive security capabilities. Occasional travel (~10%).

Lead and build vdBA's Managed Detection and Response service line for life sciences: own roadmap, tooling, SLAs, incident response, compliance (SOC 2/HITRUST/ISO), client engagements, and scale the security operations team while integrating security into delivery and sales.

Design, build, and maintain automated API and security test frameworks. Validate authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and error handling. Conduct fuzzing, token validation, access control testing, and integrate tests into CI/CD. Analyze failures, test integrations, ensure API contract adherence, and mentor automation engineers to improve coverage and reliability.

Lead technical discovery and solution design for enterprise identity and privileged access management opportunities. Build reference architectures, guide PoC/PoV engagements, present to executive and technical stakeholders, collaborate with Sales Engineering, Product and Sales leadership, and represent Keeper at customer and market events while staying current on identity security landscape.

Lead Datadog-first security observability and detection engineering: design, scale and tune Datadog Cloud SIEM, log pipelines, detection rules and telemetry. Correlate signals across EDR, cloud and identity, automate detection-as-code, reduce false positives, and build dashboards, monitors and workflows in partnership with Security Ops, SRE and Engineering.

Operate and improve security operations and enterprise controls: incident response, playbooks, endpoint/SaaS/cloud tooling, remediation coordination, access governance, compliance evidence, and automation to reduce risk.

Serve as the ISSO for assigned systems, maintain system security documentation (SSPs, control narratives, POA&Ms), support FedRAMP/GovRAMP/DoD authorization and continuous monitoring, coordinate remediation and assessments with engineering and auditors, support incident response and audit readiness, and track security metrics and evidence.

Lead and own the enterprise SSPM program: implement and manage SSPM platform, onboard SaaS apps, tune controls, integrate with SIEM/SOAR/ITSM/identity, perform threat modeling and risk assessments, drive remediation, support compliance mapping, report metrics, and partner across cyber, IT, risk, and business teams to reduce data exposure and improve SaaS security posture.

Lead design, deployment, and scaling of enterprise DLP across cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and network with a focus on AI-driven automation. Build automated classification, remediation, and workflows, integrate DLP with SIEM/SOAR/identity/cloud, develop policies for regulatory compliance, mentor engineers, and present program insights to leadership.

Design and implement automated cloud security controls across multi-cloud environments. Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, harden infrastructure and IaC, manage IAM and secrets, advance container and workload security, protect AI/ML systems and data, and support monitoring, detection, and incident response for cloud applications.