Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Designs, secures, and modernizes enterprise directory and identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, virtual directories, and Linux platforms. Responsibilities include authentication and authorization controls, privileged access, identity governance, Zero Trust initiatives, monitoring, threat detection, incident investigation, security hardening, audit support, regulatory compliance, and remediation of identity-related risks.

Design and implement secure AWS infrastructure, integrate development, operations, and security practices, automate infrastructure with CloudFormation and Terraform, assess vulnerabilities, manage incident remediation, and deploy scalable CI/CD solutions using Jenkins and GitLab. The role also involves applying cybersecurity tools, troubleshooting security infrastructure, analyzing data, advising clients, and leading others while maintaining professional and technical standards.

Designs and implements security measures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Conducts risk assessments, vulnerability testing, audits, forensic investigations, and incident response. Collaborates with cloud service providers, develops security architectures and frameworks, monitors for breaches, manages cloud resources, and supports compliance. The role also involves client relationship management, solving complex cybersecurity challenges, and advancing cloud security strategies.

Lead Toast’s product and platform security organization, overseeing security platform engineering, application and cloud security, secure development practices, offensive security, vulnerability management, hardware security, and developer enablement. Partner with product and engineering leaders to establish secure defaults and scalable guardrails while reducing developer friction. Manage and grow a multi-team security engineering organization, expand security champions and tooling adoption, and align security posture with business and product priorities.

Provides proactive technical account management for strategic cybersecurity customers. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, platform training, health checks, issue resolution, escalation management, success planning, knowledge-base development, renewal-risk mitigation, and expansion support. The role serves as a customer advocate while collaborating with support, engineering, and sales teams. Candidates need cloud, application infrastructure, security, incident response, forensics, networking, and cloud architecture expertise, along with strong communication and customer-success skills.

Partners with Sales to advise enterprise customers on cybersecurity, identity, access, asset visibility, exposure management, and risk solutions. Leads technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-value engagements, customer validation, training, and executive discussions. Requires strong cybersecurity and enterprise networking expertise, customer-facing pre-sales experience, and the ability to connect technical capabilities to business outcomes. Supports complex sales cycles, collaborates cross-functionally, and travels approximately 25–50%.

Lead cryptographic security assessments of protocols, libraries, applications, and high-assurance systems. Analyze advanced cryptographic constructions, identify design and implementation weaknesses, validate exploitability, and recommend remediation. Build testing and analysis tools, manage client delivery, write precise technical reports, mentor engineers, contribute to methodologies and services, and support open-source research and technical publications.

Build and lead a scalable application security and secure SDLC program across engineering teams. Establish policies, standards, tooling, vulnerability management, threat modeling, developer enablement, security champions, software supply-chain controls, and executive reporting. Partner with development, platform, DevOps, product, and leadership teams to integrate security into CI/CD, source control, build, release, and deployment workflows while supporting audits, advisories, incident response, and regulatory requirements.

Leads cybersecurity threat intelligence and vulnerability management initiatives, analyzing threats, deploying intrusion detection and network security platforms, and developing proactive defenses. Manages client projects, including planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery, while mentoring teams and resolving stakeholder issues. Partners with leadership to maintain quality and timelines, conducts security research, and promotes innovation across cybersecurity practices.

Consult on Oracle application security and compliance: analyze client requirements, implement security controls, perform compliance audits, develop policies, guide regulatory adherence, train and manage junior staff, and help clients mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.

Lead design and implementation of cloud, container, and application security across CSPs (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Manage client relationships and teams, apply DevSecOps practices, perform risk assessments and vulnerability testing, configure policy frameworks (CNAPP), and provide secure coding/cloud security training and mentorship to drive secure delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

Partner with sales teams to win strategic data security opportunities. Present technical solutions, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations, configure solutions, and design evaluation test plans. The role requires extensive pre-sales experience, security and networking expertise, data protection and web technology knowledge, and collaboration across matrixed go-to-market and partner teams.

Serves as the primary ISSO for classified, air-gapped federal cloud environments. Manages ATO/RMF documentation, NIST 800-53 controls, DISA STIG compliance, Tenable.sc and Nessus vulnerability scanning, offline content updates, remediation tracking, audit readiness, incident response, and continuous monitoring. Partners with cloud and infrastructure teams to improve secure configurations and automate vulnerability and compliance workflows.

Lead insider risk detection engineering and investigations using EDR/XDR, UEBA, SIEM, and SOAR tools. Refine detection rules, reduce alert noise, close coverage gaps, manage investigations, develop playbooks, document evidence, mentor analysts, and collaborate discreetly with HR, Legal, business leaders, and executives. The role also requires investigative workflow automation using Python or JavaScript and ownership of scalable security processes.

Build and lead Motive’s globally distributed SOC, owning detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, intelligence, security analytics, endpoint protection, cloud and workload monitoring, and AI-driven automation. Establish operating models, coverage strategies, runbooks, telemetry platforms, incident command processes, and measurable detection and response capabilities across corporate and production environments.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

The Senior Security Engineer will secure networks, systems, applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure; embed security controls into build pipelines; manage vulnerabilities and remediation; respond to incidents through on-call rotation; and promote security awareness across engineering. The role requires cloud security, infrastructure-as-code, application security, REST API protection, IAM, and tools including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Wiz, Exaforce, and CrowdStrike.

Leads enterprise data security and information governance by building data intake, catalog, marketplace, classification, lineage, and access-control programs. Translates privacy and security requirements into technical controls, self-service workflows, and governance documentation. Partners with Legal, InfoSec, engineering, product, and data teams to support compliant data use, AI/ML initiatives, and regulatory requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Measures adoption, turnaround times, and governance maturity across a global SaaS organization.

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, and communicate findings to technical, executive, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Build investigation scripts, runbooks, automated workflows, and security operations capabilities. Mentor engineers and support insider threat initiatives while collaborating across teams on cloud security and incident response.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Protect corporate data through DLP implementation, tuning, alert review, false-positive reduction, and control optimization across web, endpoint, email, cloud, and SaaS environments. The engineer will review data protection programs, improve monitoring and blocking controls, collaborate with business partners, and use automation and emerging AI tools to strengthen security operations.

Leads and mentors a product security engineering team while remaining hands-on. Owns certification, accreditation, DISA STIG hardening, SOC 2, ISO 27001, audit readiness, vulnerability remediation, security tooling, and authorization initiatives. Coordinates with Compliance, Legal, Sales Engineering, and customers; tracks remediation SLAs and certification posture; establishes evidence collection processes; and translates technical security strategy into an executable roadmap.

Lead enterprise eDiscovery and insider-risk investigations by collecting, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing data from cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and repositories. Build AI-powered automation, correlate activity logs into investigative timelines, manage legal holds and governance policies, support digital forensics, and produce structured evidence packages for Security, Legal, HR, and investigative teams.

Administer and improve Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security groups, access reviews, request approvals, audit support, governance documentation, and compliance controls. Evaluate elevated access requests, identify risks, resolve routine issues, coordinate remediation, and escalate complex decisions. Partner with HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders to strengthen policies, processes, and least-privilege access across Workday, Peakon, UKG, Prism, and HR data platforms.