Top Cyber Security Jobs in Memphis, TN

Lead Runpod’s security organization and own the security posture of its cloud platform, infrastructure, and corporate environments. Responsibilities include security strategy, cloud and application security, SecOps, GRC, compliance certifications, secure software development, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, vendor risk, security automation, and infrastructure security. Build and mentor a distributed security team while partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, GTM, and Legal to protect customer AI workloads and support scalable growth.

Build and lead product and application security efforts, partnering with Product and Engineering on secure design, development, code reviews, vulnerability discovery, and security guardrails. Develop AI-native security tooling and support incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and security operations. Help establish secure development practices and scalable security systems across Headway’s platform.

Develop and improve Tailscale’s security and privacy features, identify and resolve technical vulnerabilities, conduct security audits, perform threat modeling, and guide engineering teams on secure coding. The role spends at least half its time writing software and requires knowledge of application security, web vulnerabilities, client-side security, API flaws, cryptography, and networking protocols.

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.

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.

Own and improve network, firewall, cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and SaaS security controls. Responsibilities include firewall administration, VPNs, segmentation, secure architecture, traffic and log analysis, incident investigation, vulnerability remediation, security monitoring, technical project support, compliance evidence, and automation. The role collaborates with Infrastructure and DevOps teams, troubleshoots complex connectivity and security issues, and applies least-privilege, Zero Trust, and defense-in-depth principles.

Provides security architecture and enablement across SaaS platforms, APIs, custom applications, data integrations, cloud environments, and AI workflows. Partners with product, engineering, data, architecture, identity, infrastructure, enterprise, and procurement teams to conduct threat reviews, develop secure-by-design patterns, assess vendors, implement guardrails, and manage risks. Translates security requirements into practical solutions, supports enterprise data strategy and M&A integration, and mentors teams as a trusted security advisor.

Investigate and respond to sophisticated security threats across Microsoft’s ecosystem. Responsibilities include analyzing alerts and telemetry, determining incident scope and root cause, coordinating containment and remediation, improving detection logic and automation, and collaborating with threat intelligence, engineering, product, and research teams. The role also contributes to documentation, mentorship, operational excellence, and security strategy within a globally distributed 24/7 investigations team.

Leads technical security sales engagements for K-12 and community college customers through demonstrations, workshops, whiteboarding, hackathons, and proofs of concept. Designs secure cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, advises on Zero Trust, XDR, AI security, and compliance, and supports production deployments. Builds relationships with developers, platform leaders, partners, and customer success teams while promoting Microsoft security, cloud, and AI solutions.

Leads enterprise AI Security and GenAI data protection, owning the AI Gateway from evaluation through deployment and ongoing operations. Designs controls for prompts, uploads, browser traffic, copilots, agents, and integrations; implements monitoring, coaching, redaction, quarantine, and blocking. Integrates telemetry with security and identity platforms, establishes governance and exception processes, measures effectiveness, supports audit readiness, and partners with business and technology teams to enable responsible AI adoption.

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.

Leads proactive cybersecurity consulting engagements from planning through delivery. Manages consulting teams, client relationships, budgets, timelines, and engagement outcomes; presents findings to technical and executive stakeholders; supports business development, capability building, and methodology development. Requires extensive client-facing cybersecurity experience, strong risk and governance knowledge, excellent communication skills, and international travel.

Provides technical pre-sales leadership for data security solutions, including demos, proofs of concept, architecture workshops, and secure cloud or hybrid deployments. Advises customers on data security posture, Microsoft Purview, AI application security, and scalable architectures. Builds developer and platform-lead relationships, resolves technical blockers, develops technical win strategies, and collaborates with product engineering. Represents Microsoft in customer and developer communities.

Leads major cyber incident response and command activities, performing digital forensics, threat hunting, containment, recovery, and malware triage across endpoint, cloud, network, identity, Windows, and Linux environments. Coordinates technical teams, mentors analysts, briefs executives, develops response playbooks and training, automates investigations with scripting, and partners with detection engineering and threat intelligence teams to improve SOC capabilities.

Secures and governs cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, identities, APIs, secrets, and AI workloads. The role implements vulnerability scanning, secure software supply chain controls, access governance, monitoring, threat detection, and incident response support. It partners with engineering and operations teams to establish security standards, remediate vulnerabilities, harden infrastructure, and advance secure-by-design practices across cloud and application environments.

Design, secure, administer, and improve on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure. Manage servers, networks, operating systems, virtualization, firewalls, endpoints, and monitoring tools. Strengthen security controls, investigate incidents with a third-party SOC, manage vulnerabilities and risks, maintain documentation, and lead infrastructure and security projects including upgrades, migrations, automation, and tool deployments.

Supports federal cybersecurity authorization and ongoing authorization activities under the NIST RMF. Reviews ATO packages, SSPs, PIAs, risk assessments, contingency plans, POA&Ms, and security controls. Maintains assessment records in CSAM or similar GRC tools, tracks authorization renewals, supports continuous monitoring, and coordinates audit and compliance responses with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own security outcomes for an engineering portfolio across application and cloud security. Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, risk prioritization, remediation, secure coding, cloud and IaC security, and adoption of security scanning tools. Partner with engineering leaders, coach security champions, support incident response, provide hands-on remediation, and feed portfolio insights into security strategy and platform patterns. The role spans SaaS code, pipelines, identity, infrastructure, data, containers, Kubernetes, and AI-enabled systems.

Leads product security, cloud and infrastructure security, AI security, security architecture, vulnerability management, and edge security. Oversees threat modeling, secure development standards, AWS controls, vulnerability remediation, AI risk governance, customer security reviews, and security engineering delivery. Reports to the CISO, partners with engineering and GRC leaders, and hires and develops the security engineering organization.

Lead enterprise security architecture across AWS cloud, applications, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include threat modeling, DevSecOps integration, policy-as-code guardrails, IAM, encryption, data protection, container security, compliance, risk assessments, and evaluation of AI security solutions. The role partners with engineering and cloud teams to implement secure architectures and controls aligned with NIST, OWASP, CIS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and SOX.

Performs application security assessments, penetration testing, secure code reviews, vulnerability analysis, and remediation validation across web applications, APIs, microservices, and backend systems. Produces detailed security reports, prioritizes risks, recommends mitigations, and communicates findings to technical and executive stakeholders. The role supports secure-by-design practices throughout the SDLC and evaluates modern cloud-native, containerized, and DevSecOps environments.

Designs and implements secure architecture across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, application, infrastructure, and AI-enabled environments. Defines security controls, governance requirements, and enterprise guardrails; supports cloud transformation and emerging AI adoption. Leads architecture reviews, ensures regulatory and policy compliance, and collaborates with architecture, engineering, development, cybersecurity, compliance, risk, and operations teams to identify and mitigate security risks.

Designs and implements automation for federal security authorization and ATO processes. Responsibilities include automating evidence collection, validation, workflow routing, reporting, policy checks, and readiness dashboards; integrating security scans, SBOM/SCA, vulnerability, repository, and system-of-record tools; and maintaining testing, documentation, traceability, and release artifacts. Requires collaboration with security, engineering, platform, data, and government stakeholders.

Assess and improve federal information-system security authorization programs. Review ATO packages, SSPs, privacy assessments, system artifacts, POA&Ms, audit reports, and continuous-monitoring activities under RMF. Coordinate stakeholders, support compliance reporting, track authorization renewals, advise on security and privacy requirements, and develop best practices. The role requires cybersecurity incident response, systems administration, SOC, malware analysis, threat intelligence, and enterprise credential-store experience.

Conducts security and privacy control assessments, vulnerability and penetration testing, ATO artifact reviews, risk analysis, and compliance reporting. Develops assessment plans, test schedules, findings reports, POA&M remediation templates, and executive briefings. Advises system owners, ISSOs, contractors, and stakeholders on corrective actions, acceptable evidence, authorization requirements, and enterprise security improvements while applying NIST, FedRAMP, RMF, FISMA, and related government standards.