Top Cyber Security Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Own and evolve the application security program: embed secure SDLC practices, partner with engineering on design and code reviews, manage AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/ASM/WAF/mobile), harden AWS deployments, integrate security into CI/CD, and lead vulnerability investigation and remediation efforts.

Lead global technical skilling strategy for Microsoft Security Solution Engineers: define capability frameworks, analyze field and performance data to identify gaps, design scalable AI-enabled learning and assessment, advise senior leaders, partner across product/engineering/enablement, drive adoption and measure impact, and build high-performing risk and capability practices.

Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect driving security transformation on Azure and Microsoft 365. Design and implement security architectures (Identity, Threat Protection, Cloud Security), run design sessions, perform hands-on evaluations of Defender, Sentinel, and Azure AD, and influence product and engineering teams to improve customer security posture and adoption.

Lead security across applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; run secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture discussions; build automation and tooling to prevent issues; harden authentication and access control; investigate incidents and manage disclosures; partner with engineering teams to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments.

Own account-level security strategies for defense, aerospace, intelligence, and critical infrastructure customers. Lead security architecture, solution design, demonstrations, workshops, pilots, technical validations, and customer decision processes. Guide secure AI adoption and deployment of Microsoft security solutions, including Sentinel, Defender, Entra, Purview, Security Copilot, Microsoft 365, and Azure security services. Coordinate Microsoft and customer stakeholders, drive adoption, reduce risk, and deliver measurable security outcomes.

Lead a U.S.-based team of Security Operations Engineers and TPMs to design, build, and operationalize identity protections that reduce lateral-movement risk. Define strategy, apply AI and automation, partner with engineering and platform teams, deliver scalable controls, and drive measurable security outcomes, operational readiness, and executive reporting.

Administers Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security configuration, access reviews, governance, audit support, and remediation. Evaluates routine and elevated access requests, enforces least-privilege standards, analyzes security and audit trends, maintains governance documentation, and recommends policy and process improvements. Collaborates with HR, IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders while protecting confidential employee data.

Design and build cloud security tooling, automation, and AI-enabled threat-hunting capabilities. Perform threat modeling, incident response, security research, architecture reviews, and detection engineering. Develop SIEM and SOAR integrations, automate security processes, address AI-related threats using MITRE ATLAS, and contribute to multi-year security roadmaps. Collaborate across engineering and business teams, prioritize security improvements, support on-call operations, and mentor team members.

Assesses clients’ operational technology security posture across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and critical infrastructure. Conducts stakeholder interviews, reviews OT documentation, evaluates environments against cybersecurity frameworks and regulations, develops maturity assessments and remediation roadmaps, and presents findings to technical teams and executives. Advises on OT security governance, policies, procedures, risk management, and compliance while supporting broader cyber risk advisory engagements.

Lead RMF execution and authorization efforts for classified cloud and AI-integrated systems. Develop and maintain SSPs, SARs, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring documentation; assess NIST, DoD, CNSS, FedRAMP, cloud, container, and AI security controls. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, risk analysis, and security control assessments while coordinating with architects, developers, DevSecOps teams, customers, and third-party assessors.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise cybersecurity architecture and engineering supporting a federal VA program. Leads security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk and gap analyses, modernization, governance, requirements traceability, and secure implementation across cloud, health IT, network, data, identity, and emerging technologies. Advises government and technical leadership, guides multidisciplinary teams, develops architectural standards and recommendations, supports A&A and ATO activities, presents executive briefings, reviews deliverables, and mentors cybersecurity personnel.

Leads security engineering across application, cloud, infrastructure, and on-premises environments. Designs security controls, vulnerability-management processes, patching cycles, image refreshes, cloud guardrails, network isolation, WAF, identity, and secrets-management practices. Prioritizes remediation using CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, and SLA-driven metrics. Provides technical direction, reviews fixes, mentors engineers, builds standards and runbooks, and coordinates cross-functional security initiatives globally without direct people-management responsibility.

Secures and hardens application, cloud, infrastructure, operating systems, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and networks across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Improves patching and golden-image processes, scales AI-assisted SAST and SCA tooling, prioritizes vulnerabilities, validates fixes, tracks remediation metrics, creates reusable tooling and runbooks, mentors junior engineers, and partners with application and platform teams to deliver security improvements.

Execute security engineering across application, cloud, and infrastructure environments by applying patches, upgrading dependencies, hardening configurations, implementing security controls, and managing WAF and network-isolation changes. Review AI-generated SAST and SCA pull requests, coordinate regression testing, support patching cycles and golden-image refreshes, track remediation through verification, and collaborate with application and platform teams. Follow established runbooks, standards, risk prioritization, and CISA guidance while developing broader security expertise.

Own strategic post-sales relationships with enterprise customers, advising them on AI security and governance. Lead discovery, define measurable outcomes, drive adoption, support retention and expansion, and coordinate Product, Engineering, Security, Support, and operationalization teams. Translate CISO-level strategy, GRC concerns, business objectives, and technical requirements into practical solution strategies while identifying new AI security use cases and growth opportunities.

Two-year rotational technology leadership program with four six-month rotations across cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, compliance, enterprise platforms, service management, and IT operations. Associates support security posture, technology risk management, automation, process improvement, system reliability, and infrastructure initiatives while developing technical, business, and leadership skills. Successful participants transition into a full-time D&IT role based on business needs and demonstrated capabilities.

Designs and builds security orchestration and automation workflows for SOC processes, including alert triage, incident response, case management, integrations, scripting, error handling, and secure execution. The role translates client requirements into automation build plans, integrates SIEM, EDR/XDR, ticketing, threat intelligence, and email security tools, and may apply AI, cloud security, detection engineering, and automation-as-code practices.

Owns security operations and compliance for a multi-tenant GPUaaS platform. Maintains SOC 2 and SOC 3 programs, coordinates audits and penetration tests, manages IAM and security tooling, leads vulnerability management and incident response, supports customer security reviews and contracts, maintains policies, and drives security awareness and phishing programs.

Leads strategic execution and delivery of complex cybersecurity and IT programs, managing timelines, risks, resources, prioritization, and stakeholder communication. Develops program templates and progress metrics, resolves blockers, and drives continuous improvement. Applies technical fluency across IAM, endpoint security, cloud risk, compliance frameworks, and system architecture to guide strategy, tradeoffs, and executive communication.

Lead and grow Security and IT technical program management teams, oversee the cybersecurity and IT portfolio, establish prioritization and reporting processes, translate strategy into roadmaps, manage enterprise risks and dependencies, and communicate delivery status and trade-offs to executives. The role requires strong program leadership, technical fluency, cybersecurity knowledge, and experience managing people and complex cross-functional initiatives.

Leads Ferguson’s network security program, managing a team of up to six and overseeing firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, URL filtering, endpoint, cloud, and perimeter security. Develops strategic roadmaps, manages budgets and vendors, oversees solution design and deployments, supports major projects, and ensures operational documentation and training. The role also evaluates emerging technologies, partners with architecture and engineering teams, and provides cybersecurity domain expertise across Zero Trust, SASE, and network security.

Lead AWS GovCloud security engineering and accreditation for pre-production modernization environments. Design secure cloud architectures, landing zones, IAM controls, network segmentation, infrastructure automation, containers, and CI/CD deployments. Own DoD RMF, IATT-C, and ATO packages, security controls, POA&Ms, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, and cybersecurity assessments. Provide cloud and cybersecurity guidance for modernization, migration, data transition, Zero Trust, and ICAM initiatives while advising program leadership.

Supports information security governance programs covering data retention and protection, eDiscovery, legal holds, insider risk, investigations, and regulatory compliance. Develops policies and governance processes, assesses risks and control gaps, administers retention and destruction activities, supports litigation and audit requests, investigates insider risk events, manages related technologies and vendors, and delivers reports and executive communications. Partners with Legal, Compliance, HR, Corporate Security, Technology, and business stakeholders.

Provides information security support for federal healthcare systems, including security architecture reviews, firewall and infrastructure initiatives, security impact assessments, mitigating controls, system security plans, SOPs, and POA&M remediation. Advises development teams and customer security organizations on federal security requirements, emerging practices such as Zero Trust and SBOM, network monitoring, authentication, and data security. The role is remote and requires passing an IHS background check for Public Trust eligibility.

Leads federal cybersecurity program management and ISSO activities for FHWA systems. Manages plans, schedules, risks, deliverables, staffing, reporting, audits, contingency testing, authorization documentation, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, cloud controls, DevSecOps, incident support, and compliance with FISMA, NIST, FIPS, and FedRAMP requirements. Advises system owners, developers, infrastructure teams, and government stakeholders on cybersecurity risk and information assurance.