Top Entry Level Cybersecurity Jobs in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN

Build and maintain scalable production infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform capabilities. Design infrastructure architecture, automate manual processes, manage Kubernetes-based environments, scale databases and messaging systems, and monitor production services. The role partners with engineering teams across the product lifecycle and uses infrastructure as code, Helm, cloud technologies, and open-source tools to improve reliability, delivery, and developer experience.

Lead FIPS 140-3 evaluations and entropy source validations, including source code reviews, test planning, noise data analysis, entropy assessments, health-test evaluation, documentation, and CMVP submissions. Address reviewer comments, explain technical findings to customers, mentor colleagues, and improve testing automation and methods. The role requires cryptographic implementation knowledge, probability and statistics expertise, programming skills in C/C++ and Python, strong technical writing, and approximately 25% domestic travel.

Monitors and analyzes network traffic, responds to and investigates security incidents, collaborates with the SOC team to improve security procedures, ensures compliance with security standards, and uses CrowdStrike and related tools to protect systems.

Leads Citizens’ enterprise semantic analytics strategy and AtScale-based semantic layer operating model. Establishes governed, auditable processes for requirements, metric definitions, modeling, validation, certification, deployment, and change management. Oversees BI platform strategy across Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, and WebFOCUS, while driving natural language query capabilities, business adoption, partner delivery, executive governance, and distributed team leadership.

Design, develop, and implement AI/ML models; analyze large datasets; integrate AI solutions into existing systems; apply MavLink for autonomous systems; collaborate across teams and improve ML development processes.

Source and engage candidates for technical and business roles, build and maintain talent pipelines in Greenhouse, and partner with recruiters and hiring managers. Manage external recruiting partner relationships, support interview scheduling and recruiting administration, track sourcing results, and recommend process improvements. The role is a six-month remote contract with possible extension.

Administer Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL databases in a fully remote federal environment. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, patching, security, backup and recovery, vulnerability remediation, incident response, documentation, compliance, and application deployment support. The role requires collaboration with development and hosting teams, occasional travel, and after-hours or on-call availability. A Public Trust clearance must be obtainable.

Leads product marketing for Optro’s GRC portfolio, defining market strategy, positioning, messaging, launches, campaigns, and sales enablement. Manages and develops a product marketing team while partnering with product, sales, demand generation, and customer success. Owns go-to-market planning, market narratives around agentic AI, QBR reporting, and strategic initiatives to accelerate growth across audit, risk, and compliance markets.

Provides remote technical support for FireMon network security products through phone, email, chat, and web. Manages and prioritizes tickets, investigates and reproduces issues, analyzes logs, troubleshoots firewalls and Linux systems, manages customer expectations, and escalates unresolved problems. The role supports 24/7 coverage, includes on-call production incident response, and requires ongoing technical development and certification.

Designs, implements, administers, troubleshoots, and optimizes Cloudflare solutions across customer environments. Responsibilities include DNS, CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, SSL/TLS, load balancing, and Zero Trust technologies such as Access, Gateway, and Tunnel. The engineer investigates complex networking and security incidents, supports customers and internal teams, documents solutions, and automates deployments using APIs, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code. Broader cloud, systems, networking, cybersecurity, and automation expertise is also valued.