Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Leads IAM operational teams and develops cross-trained staff to deliver secure, compliant access management services. Manages IAM operations, incidents, risk treatment, onboarding and offboarding, access reviews, RBAC, PAM, identity lifecycle management, reporting, training, vendors, audits, and regulatory alignment. Drives IAM projects, automation, process improvements, operational resilience, and collaboration among cybersecurity, IT, HR, business stakeholders, and technical teams.

Lead IAM operational teams, optimize identity and access management processes, investigate incidents, manage risk, and support RBAC, PAM, lifecycle management, onboarding, offboarding, and access reviews. Develop strategies, metrics, training, and reporting while partnering with IT, cybersecurity, HR, business stakeholders, vendors, auditors, and regulators. Drive IAM projects, automation, compliance, operational resilience, and continuous process improvements.

Leads the strategic direction, operating model, governance, and service delivery of enterprise Identity and Access Management operations. Oversees complex security, operational, risk, regulatory, and incident-resolution issues; drives modernization, automation, resiliency, remediation, and control effectiveness initiatives. Partners with executives, engineering, audit, risk, and compliance teams, while managing and developing security professionals and improving operational performance in a highly regulated environment.

Leads the design, automation, operation, and support of enterprise PKI and certificate lifecycle management services. Develops certificate issuance, renewal, discovery, compliance, and integration solutions using APIs and modern engineering practices. Supports cryptographic modernization, crypto-agility, post-quantum readiness, and machine identity technologies. Identifies security risks, collaborates with application and infrastructure teams, provides technical leadership, and mentors professionals across certificate management initiatives.

Designs, secures, and modernizes enterprise identity infrastructure across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, virtual directories, and Linux platforms. Responsibilities include identity governance, authentication, privileged access, Zero Trust, monitoring, threat detection, incident response, hardening, audit support, and regulatory compliance. The role partners with cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, application, operations, audit, and risk teams to implement resilient identity controls and remediate security findings.

Leads enterprise application security architecture and strategy across cloud-native platforms, APIs, DevSecOps pipelines, software supply chains, and AI-enabled systems. Defines security standards, reference architectures, threat models, and governance frameworks; evaluates designs and technologies; drives secure software development and modernization initiatives; and advises senior technology and cybersecurity leaders. The role also mentors architects and engineers and promotes responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Leads the design, implementation, support, and automation of enterprise DLP and data protection solutions. Integrates sensitive data sources, maintains security data feeds, troubleshoots complex security and application issues, performs risk assessments, evaluates technologies, and provides cybersecurity guidance. The role also mentors engineers, leads continuous improvement, supports cloud and enterprise environments, and applies AI-assisted development responsibly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.