Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Louisville, KY

Leads enterprise data protection initiatives, including data classification, DLP policy management, eDiscovery support, insider threat investigations, and data governance. Uses behavioral analytics, audit logs, SIEM, UEBA, and forensic tools to identify misuse and leakage. Develops security controls, incident response playbooks, and compliance updates while collaborating with Legal, HR, and Compliance. Participates in threat-hunting and red, blue, and purple team exercises. Requires five-plus years of relevant experience and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Lead product security initiatives for cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture reviews, identifying systemic weaknesses, developing secure-by-design guidance and reference architectures, advising engineering and product leaders, leveraging AI and automation for scalable security assessments, investigating emerging attack paths, mentoring teams, and improving security review methodologies and tooling.

Leads and develops an engineering team building and operating cloud security controls as software products. Provides technical direction through architecture, design, and code reviews; owns production reliability and continuous improvement; translates security risks into automated, scalable solutions; and coordinates roadmaps and dependencies with product, platform, application, and security teams. The role also drives agile delivery, secure engineering practices, mentoring, and adoption of reusable cloud security patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Owns IT systems administration and security operations for a fully remote workforce. Responsibilities include managing Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, endpoint and identity platforms, security tools, access controls, threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, vendor relationships, reporting, and operational roadmaps.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud security controls for Vercel's platform. Harden infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and policy enforcement, secure CI/CD pipelines, perform threat modeling and risk analysis, improve monitoring and incident response, and build platform-level security tooling in collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Lead application security for products by performing threat modeling, manual secure code reviews, and penetration testing. Collaborate with engineers to remediate defects, build AppSec automation and tooling, secure cloud/containerized applications, and drive bug-bounty responses to harden platform security.

Leads engineering operations, security, DevOps, quality engineering, cloud infrastructure, corporate IT, data integrations, and customer-facing technical escalations. Owns security strategy and compliance, incident management, on-call practices, reliability metrics, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations. Develops managers and senior engineers, restructures inherited teams, establishes service-level agreements, and drives automation and operational efficiency across the organization.

Lead the AWS cloud security program and manage security engineering teams. Establish AWS security standards, oversee IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, Terraform automation, CI/CD security, incident response, and secure architecture reviews. Manage risk registers, compliance workflows, audits, control testing, and FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, and SA&A readiness. Guide investigations, remediation, runbooks, tabletop exercises, and secure cloud practices while reporting risks and metrics to leadership.

Monitor and secure federal cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Perform cloud threat hunting, log analysis, incident response, and develop cloud security playbooks and monitoring use cases. Ensure cloud logs are integrated with SIEM tools, tune detection systems, establish KPIs, support threat information sharing, and assist with cloud SOC tool deployment and proof-of-concept efforts.

Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise security technologies while monitoring, detecting, investigating, and remediating security incidents. Perform digital forensics, threat hunting, vulnerability and risk assessments, audits, compliance checks, evidence preservation, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with internal teams and third parties, implement new security solutions, create security documentation, and support incident response during regular and on-call hours.

Partner with sales to design and present data security solutions for SLED customers. Lead technical evaluations, gather requirements, build test plans, configure proof-of-concepts, and guide customers to successful outcomes while collaborating across GTM teams.

Design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud (AWS) and on-prem systems. Lead vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation. Serve as SME for SIEM, SAST/DAST, IAM. Embed security in SDLC, support SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit readiness, mentor junior engineers, and recommend control improvements.

Leads end-to-end Cisco Duo MFA and access management engagements, including architecture, deployment, integrations, migrations, automation, device trust, security reviews, documentation, and client handoff. Supports Okta and Ping Identity projects, contributes to presales activities, owns technical delivery, mentors junior engineers, and manages client communication. The role integrates identity platforms with VPNs, cloud services, applications, directories, endpoint management tools, and enterprise infrastructure.

Leads enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management architecture and application security integration for Defense Logistics Agency mission systems. Defines identity, authentication, authorization, access governance, provisioning, and integration requirements; designs secure architecture patterns; supports application onboarding and modernization; and guides RBAC, privileged access management, and segregation of duties implementations. Provides technical leadership and communicates recommendations to government stakeholders, application owners, engineers, developers, and cybersecurity teams.

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.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, SIEM analytics, threat hunting, incident response, and continuous monitoring for federal and DoD-aligned environments. Oversees ACAS/Nessus scanning, STIG validation, patch compliance, detection engineering, threat intelligence, reporting, and remediation coordination. Collaborates with cloud, DevSecOps, ISSO, and engineering teams while mentoring junior analysts and improving security automation.

Monitors SIEM dashboards, correlates logs across security and cloud sources, investigates alerts, assesses threats, performs preliminary incident triage, tunes detection rules, documents findings, and escalates high-risk events. The analyst supports continuous monitoring, SOC playbooks, detection use cases, reporting, and coordination with incident response and engineering teams in a DoD-aligned environment.

Performs application security assessments, secure code reviews, API and CMS security testing, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, and remediation validation. Integrates SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management, and security controls into CI/CD pipelines. Advises developers and architects on secure coding, authentication, encryption, and DevSecOps practices while supporting monitoring and incident triage. Requires an active Top Secret clearance, technical bachelor’s degree, seven years of relevant experience, and Security+, CISSP, or CCSP certification.

Designs and implements secure cloud architectures, IL5 controls, STIG-aligned hardening baselines, identity integrations, and cybersecurity controls for federal and DoD-aligned platforms. Performs security assessments, vulnerability analysis, continuous monitoring, secure deployment reviews, audit support, and remediation planning. Requires expertise in AWS, NIST, RMF, PKI, SIEM, and cloud security, along with mentoring junior engineers and documenting technical architectures. The role is fully remote but requires an active Top Secret clearance and substantial security engineering experience.

Supports AWS GovCloud IL5 cybersecurity compliance and security operations. Performs RMF impact analysis, maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, and control evidence, validates STIGs and cloud configurations, monitors vulnerabilities and logs, supports IL5 migrations, audits, ATO activities, and continuity planning, and documents remediation and compliance findings.

Support DoD authorization and cybersecurity assessments for ESS and EKC systems. Apply NIST 800-53 controls, DoD STIGs, security control documentation, vulnerability severity assessment, continuous monitoring, and system authorization processes. Collaborate with ISSMs, product management, and development teams on architecture, testing, compliance, and production-ready system delivery.

Leads the design, implementation, and operation of information security controls across systems, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include SIEM/MDR, EDR/XDR, SOAR, vulnerability management, PAM, Zero Trust, incident response, data protection, DLP, and cloud security. The role collaborates with IT, Privacy, Compliance, and application teams, mentors engineers, supports security architecture and SDLC practices, and may provide periodic on-call incident response support.

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