Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

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.

Adversarially test and strengthen Generative AI models against cyber-CBRNE threats by designing red-team prompts, jailbreaks, multi-turn attacks, and scenario-based evaluations; develop test suites, taxonomies, and actionable mitigations while documenting vulnerabilities and maintaining threat and AI-safety expertise.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, support security reviews before production, and communicate risks and remediation priorities to engineering teams.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP Cloud Service Provider assessments. Reviews full-stack architectures, authorization packages, security controls, policies, assessment reports, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests for compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, supports continuous monitoring, advises government program leaders and CISOs, and provides security recommendations for cloud systems.

Perform offensive security research and engineering for Windows: discover vulnerabilities, develop PoC mitigations and tools (fuzzers/agents), conduct code and design reviews, partner with product teams, and engage external researchers to improve OS security.

Build, secure, automate, and operate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure while supporting HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance. Responsibilities include Terraform development, CI/CD security, IAM, vulnerability management, observability, SIEM integrations, incident response, infrastructure hardening, scripting, technical documentation, and cross-functional automation. The role also participates in on-call coverage and evaluates new security and infrastructure tools.

Build and scale application security for a SaaS platform by integrating SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, and container/IaC checks into CI/CD. Partner with engineering and DevOps teams on threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and secure development practices. The role also supports compliance goals and translates security risks clearly to engineers.

Leads enterprise security architecture for cloud and on-premises systems supporting a federal agency. Develops security standards, reference architectures, diagrams, policies, procedures, and hardening guidance; assesses architectures and security postures; identifies gaps and privacy requirements; supports Zero Trust, RMF, acquisition, compliance, risk management, and technical briefings. Partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into secure technical solutions and maintains architecture documentation throughout the system lifecycle.

Implement and configure SailPoint IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud solutions, including identity lifecycle management, access certifications, provisioning, integrations, workflows, rules, and application onboarding. Lead or support IIQ-to-ISC migrations, gather client requirements, create technical documentation, troubleshoot deployments, and support UAT and hypercare. The role also involves client interaction, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to reusable delivery assets in a remote consulting environment.

Leads security operations and corporate IT for a healthcare technology company handling PHI. Responsibilities include incident response, application and cloud security, IAM, endpoint management, vendor reviews, security policies, compliance support for HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST, and management of three direct reports. The role also builds AI-driven automation tools and workflows for IT and security operations while partnering with executives, engineers, customers, auditors, and compliance leaders.

Monitor, investigate, and respond to global security incidents; lead incident response as an incident commander; develop security alerts, playbooks, automated actions, and escalation workflows; conduct threat hunting and threat intelligence research; improve detection, containment, and post-incident processes; collaborate with stakeholders; and participate in an on-call rotation.

Supports managed security clients through threat hunting, security event analysis, detection use-case tuning, incident documentation, remediation guidance, metrics, root cause analysis, and process improvement. Provides escalation support, mentorship, technical oversight, and collaboration with security engineering and architecture teams. Requires experience with enterprise SIEM and case-management tools, SOAR platforms, vulnerability scanning, cybersecurity frameworks, technical documentation, and 24/7 managed services operations.

Provides pre-sales technical support and technical account management for Vectra’s cybersecurity platform. Leads customer discovery, product demonstrations, proofs of concept, technology reviews, integrations, and security architecture discussions. Builds technical relationships with customers and channel partners, supports sales teams, collaborates on deployments and product projects, and maintains expertise in security technologies, networking, cloud security, attacker progression, incident response, and competitive offerings. Regional travel is required as needed.

Leads the organization’s cybersecurity program, including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, security architecture, automation, and AI adoption. Manages security staff, vendors, MDR providers, projects, policies, audits, and operational improvements while reporting risks and performance to senior leadership. The role also drives security awareness, cross-functional collaboration, incident preparedness, and team development.

Establish and enforce security controls across Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud environments for a federal health customer. Manage IAM federation, least-privilege access, centralized monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security tooling. Validate deployments against FedRAMP High, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 requirements, support zero-trust architecture, and collaborate with governance, audit, security, and engineering teams. The role also provides technical leadership and develops cloud security standards.

Implement and validate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security controls for a federal health customer. Responsibilities include securing IAM, networks, encryption, monitoring, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Security Advisor, threat intelligence, key management, SIEM integrations, and Infrastructure as Code automation. The engineer will collaborate with cloud operations, migration, application, and systems teams while establishing technical security standards for cloud and on-premises environments.

Own and advance cybersecurity for satellites, flight software, ground systems, mission networks, communication links, and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, SIEM detection engineering, network defense, cloud security, DLP, security assessments, awareness training, and compliance with CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-171, and ITAR/EAR requirements. The role collaborates with aerospace, software, systems, and compliance teams and requires expertise in mission-system security.

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Secure Wiz’s products, CI/CD systems, and production cloud infrastructure through threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management, detection and response, cloud and Kubernetes security baselines, policy-as-code, and automation. Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and Federal teams to implement scalable security controls, remediate risks, support FedRAMP requirements, and promote secure-by-design development practices.

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.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS cloud security policies, architecture, and technologies. The role oversees firewalls, DLP, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, logging, IAM, incident response, compliance, and remediation. It provides security guidance for AWS solutions, supports migrations of mission-critical applications, researches new technologies, documents standards, presents to varied audiences, and mentors less experienced engineers. The position requires strong AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code proficiency, knowledge of regulated healthcare environments, and experience securing highly available cloud and serverless architectures.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Own security partnerships for Netflix Marketing and Animation, advising leaders on risk, GenAI adoption, access controls, content protection, architecture, and remediation. Lead risk assessments, business risk profiles, metrics, and pre-release content security initiatives. Support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries while translating complex security concerns into actionable business guidance across application, cloud, identity, and data domains.

Supports cybersecurity risk management and authorization for the VA.gov Platform. Assesses NIST security controls, performs gap and risk analyses, maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, and authorization evidence, and translates deficiencies into engineering remediation. The role supports ATO/cATO readiness, OSCAL automation, threat modeling, secure design reviews, stakeholder coordination, incident response, and continuous synchronization between technical changes and security documentation.