Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Nashville, TN

Lead cybersecurity advisory engagements including building GRC programs, conducting compliance readiness and ITGC assessments, executing remediation roadmaps, directing incident response exercises, performing IT risk assessments, managing GRC platforms, and delivering client-facing recommendations and project management.

Design, implement, and maintain a cross-platform endpoint security agent (Windows, macOS, Linux) using Go and JavaScript. Build low-level system automation, telemetry collection, secure agent-cloud communication, real-time threat detection, update mechanisms, and monitoring tools. Optimize performance, ensure multi-OS compatibility, and collaborate with security teams on detection rules and compliance checks.

Own integration, configuration, and output quality of security tooling; tune findings to reduce noise; design severity scoring, triage flows, and enrichment; build a security judgment layer; partner with engineering, product, and design; engage with customers; benchmark and contribute to open-source security tooling.

Lead and scale the Email Security engineering team, own roadmap delivery, drive architecture for high-throughput distributed systems, partner with Product and Security, mentor engineers, and oversee on-call, incident response, and system reliability.

Serve as a senior platform consultant and security architect advising engineering teams on secure-by-design platforms. Lead threat modeling, design large-scale cloud-native microservices, embed CI/CD security, drive Zero Trust and IAM strategies, mentor engineers, influence architecture and delivery, and communicate security posture to technical and business leaders.

Secure and harden cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and internal AI/agentic tooling. Build security automation, detection pipelines, and IaC controls (Terraform). Investigate incidents, query logs (Athena, CloudTrail Lake), design IAM policies, support secure customer deployments, research cloud/AI security threats, and produce runbooks and playbooks to scale security practices.

Develop, implement, and maintain security policies and controls mapped to NIST CSF; manage policy and compliance workflows in ServiceNow IRM; perform risk assessments and gap analyses; support audit readiness and vendor assessments; produce dashboards and reports; lead security awareness and AI governance training; mentor junior analysts; collaborate with IT, risk, compliance, and business teams to drive remediation and policy adoption.

Sell IonQ's quantum-security solutions to SLED accounts by identifying and closing opportunities around quantum-safe encryption and post-quantum readiness. Manage full sales cycle, engage CISOs and IT leaders, collaborate with technical teams, maintain pipeline in CRM, and represent the company at industry events. Drive strategic, solution-oriented deals in complex, consultative environments.

Lead cross-functional security initiatives: automate security tasks and incident response, manage HITRUST/SOC2/PCI assessments and remediation, evaluate and optimize security tools, secure software development (GitHub, code scanning, AI code), respond to audits, deliver training, and investigate and remediate security incidents to advance program maturity.

Lead multiple product security engineering teams to design, implement, and operate security controls across Allstate's technology ecosystem. Architect secure digital products, drive DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud-native and application security best practices, integrate IAM/SIEM/vulnerability management, influence stakeholders, manage security product roadmaps, mentor engineers, and own production security KPIs and compliance.

Own and scale Mozillas web bug bounty program, triage and validate incoming vulnerability reports, drive remediation with engineering teams, perform targeted JavaScript and Python code reviews, collaborate with SIRT on incidents, and develop tooling to improve program efficiency and insights.

Customer-facing presales role designing and demonstrating SASE, Zero Trust, SD‑WAN and cloud-delivered security architectures. Lead technical discovery, deliver demos/POCs/workshops, respond to RFPs/RFIs, integrate HPE+Juniper solutions, present to technical and executive stakeholders, and provide product feedback. Regional travel across the Eastern U.S. required.

Manage and grow a security engineering team responsible for product and platform security, embedding security into the SDLC, running red team/adversarial testing, performing hands-on web application pentesting, threat modeling, secure-coding guidance, and defining AI security guardrails.

Lead design, implementation, and management of security infrastructure across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Drive incident response, threat detection tuning, vulnerability assessments, risk and compliance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001), security policy development, and security training. Collaborate with IT, DevOps, legal, and procurement to integrate security into SDLC and vendor selection.

Build and operate an internal Red Team to continuously find vulnerabilities across protocol, consensus, bridges, and execution clients. Develop Rust-based fuzzers and custom security tooling, simulate economic attacks on testnet, analyze game-theoretic risks (MEV, staking), and partner with engineering teams to review critical architecture and mitigate exploits.

Maintain and mature Mozilla's ISMS, support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits, author compliance narratives, track remediation, lead policy program, scale compliance for products, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive control ownership and audit readiness.

Manage and lead engineering teams building endpoint security software: define and execute roadmaps, oversee SDLC and ISMS compliance, remove blockers, drive secure coding, coordinate with product and architects, recruit and develop staff, and manage budgets and operations.

Build and maintain data pipelines, metrics, and dashboards to quantify consumer product security risk. Perform hands-on analytics into device and authentication signals, shape risk measurement strategy, partner with product and security teams, and influence leadership reporting. Drive a unified, scalable data foundation that enables cross-team alignment and proactive risk detection.

Lead strategy, execution, and operational excellence for multiple security engineering domains. Build and develop leaders, deliver multi-year roadmaps, drive platform evolution, automation, vendor strategy, and cross-functional programs to reduce risk and scale secure operations.

Own and scale Mozilla's web bug bounty program, triage and validate incoming reports, drive vulnerability remediation with engineering teams, perform targeted code reviews (JS/Python), collaborate with SIRT on incidents, and develop tooling to improve triage and program insights.

Maintain and mature Mozilla's ISMS and support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audit programs. Author system descriptions and policies, manage risk treatment plans, track remediation, support internal audits, and partner with Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Product to drive control ownership and audit readiness.

Support DoD modernization engagements by implementing and validating secure configurations, supporting ATO/eMASS activities, producing operational runbooks, coordinating cutovers and testing, remediating vulnerabilities, and automating operations (scripting/AIOps) with emphasis on mainframe/legacy environments and DoD security frameworks.

Design, implement, and monitor internal security tooling and controls across endpoints and infrastructure. Enforce endpoint configurations via MDM, manage identity and zero-trust SSO solutions, automate security operations with IaC and scripting, perform log analysis and incident response, and collaborate with client platform and IT teams to harden systems and support threat hunting.

Support cybersecurity engineering for a VA healthcare modernization project: secure AWS and hybrid environments, support RMF/ATO and compliance, configure and monitor AWS security services, produce SSPs/POA&Ms/SOPs, perform vulnerability assessments and DISA STIG hardening, integrate security into DevSecOps and CI/CD, and collaborate with stakeholders on security controls and remediation.

Lead design and management of security architecture (SIEM, EDR, DLP, firewalls, VPNs), drive incident response and detection tuning, perform vulnerability and risk assessments, support compliance/audits (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001), and provide cross-functional security guidance and training.