Top Cyber Security Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

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.

Provides cybersecurity GRC control design guidance, independent control assessments, risk management, regulatory compliance oversight, and control testing across cloud and on-premises environments. Advises business units on cybersecurity requirements, monitors control performance through risk indicators, develops remediation plans, prepares program reporting, and drives maturity of the information security control framework. Requires substantial experience in information security, IT risk, cloud security, audit, banking regulations, and control assessment methodologies.

Own identity and endpoint security across the company, including SSO, MFA, access provisioning, access reviews, MDM, EDR, device security baselines, and IT workflows. Respond to identity and endpoint incidents, assess vendor and SaaS integration risks, support secure AI tool adoption, automate security processes, and help develop scalable security policies and controls.

Leads a 12-person application security practice conducting code audits, vulnerability research, and secure design reviews. Oversees technical delivery, client relationships, project staffing, utilization, profitability, recruiting, and team development. Provides hands-on technical direction across source-code security work, determines investments in tooling and methodologies, and integrates AI-assisted auditing and research into team workflows. The role also owns practice P&L and supports engineers’ conference, publication, and open-source contributions.

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.

Leads OT/ICS and enterprise cybersecurity architecture for a federal critical-infrastructure modernization program. Responsibilities include requirements development, NERC CIP traceability, market research, RFI and vendor evaluation, lab testing, alternatives analysis, product recommendations, and executive briefings. The role bridges utility operational technology and IT security, covering access control, monitoring, asset management, vulnerability management, SCADA environments, and industrial systems. It is fully remote in the U.S. with up to 25% domestic travel and requires Public Trust eligibility.

Leads data security governance across database monitoring, encryption, certificate and key management, HSM operations, data masking, and cryptographic asset inventory. Manages a security governance team, develops controls and procedures, supports audits and regulatory inquiries, partners cross-functionally, and drives post-quantum cryptography readiness, automation, metrics, service reliability, and operational maturity.

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 Zeta’s AI-native Application Security function by defining strategy, building the team, embedding security agents and policy-as-code into IDEs, pull requests, CI/CD, and AI/ML pipelines, and overseeing continuous threat modeling and validation. Own security for AI systems, models, prompts, and agents, including adversarial testing for prompt injection, model abuse, and data leakage. Mentor engineers and promote automated, secure software development practices.

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.

Leads the strategy, architecture, administration, security, governance, and lifecycle management of the global Microsoft 365 environment. Oversees Exchange Online, Proofpoint, Defender, anti-phishing, email threat protection, identity integrations, compliance controls, and Zero Trust initiatives. Establishes operational standards, KPIs, SLAs, risk controls, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement processes while managing Microsoft and Proofpoint vendor relationships and collaborating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, compliance, and business teams.

Lead the development of SailPoint’s cybersecurity architecture practice. Create holistic and reference architectures, define security domains, develop strategic roadmaps, identify security gaps, and translate architectural concepts into viable engineering solutions. Partner with leadership to prioritize initiatives, secure funding, and operationalize the practice. The role also includes hands-on security projects, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, and mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, application, identity, and network security.

Oversee application security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and security-related release readiness while developing and maintaining full-stack Java web applications. Coordinate with IRS personnel, create remediation milestones, lead technical meetings, troubleshoot environments, review code, perform testing, and document technical solutions. The role requires extensive J2EE development, security tooling, CI/CD, OpenShift, mainframe integration, and vulnerability management experience in a federal environment.

Supports cloud security operations across Azure and AWS, including posture management, identity and access controls, architecture reviews, network security, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code reviews, data protection, monitoring, incident response, compliance assessments, and leadership reporting. Coordinates remediation with infrastructure, application development, and information security teams while maintaining cloud security policies, dashboards, documentation, and audit evidence.

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.

Implements and maintains security technologies across endpoint, network, cloud, server, and mobile environments. Monitors alerts, investigates incidents, performs vulnerability assessments, develops detection rules, hardens systems, supports identity and access controls, automates security tasks, and coordinates remediation. The role also supports audits, security reviews, documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with IT and security teams.

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.

Maintains security infrastructure, firewalls, PKI, access controls, vulnerability management, incident response, compliance documentation, and threat detection systems. Uses AI-powered SIEM, EDR, UEBA, and SOAR tools to automate security operations and identify emerging threats. Develops policies based on NIST, FISMA, PCI, PII, and CJIS requirements; performs risk assessments, system hardening, and security training. Collaborates with IT teams and evaluates AI/ML security, privacy, and supply chain risks.

Build and operate infrastructure security platforms centered on workload identity, service-to-service authentication, authorization, and short-lived credentials. Replace static secrets with identity-based systems, develop identity-authenticated proxies and APIs, and unify authorization policy management. Partner with platform and application teams to drive adoption, migrate legacy systems, and ensure reliable production infrastructure with strong developer experience.

Lead secure design and code reviews, conduct penetration testing and code audits, build secure-by-default systems, improve security tooling and vulnerability management, operate responsible disclosure programs, remediate production vulnerabilities, and address customer security concerns. The role partners closely with engineering teams and requires strong coding, risk assessment, offensive security, and security communication skills.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP authorization and continuous monitoring. Reviews cloud service provider architectures, security controls, authorization packages, assessment reports, vulnerabilities, and compliance documentation against NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, advises government program leads and CISOs on risk posture, and supports secure, compliant, resilient system design.

Build and own the company’s enterprise risk management and information security functions. Lead SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, security policies, ISMS development, incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery exercises, vendor and audit management, partner security due diligence, and security awareness training. Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, business development, and operations to maintain an audit-ready security posture.

Owns broad product and operational security responsibilities, including identity and access management, threat modeling, code review, fuzzing, bug bounty operations, AI security research, software supply chain monitoring, penetration test coordination, and compliance evidence. The role requires a strong software engineering background, product security expertise, security tooling development, systems programming experience, and familiarity with web3 or DeFi. It is remote-first and emphasizes autonomy, documentation, and high ownership.

Supports federal cybersecurity risk management and authorization activities using the NIST RMF. Responsibilities include system categorization, security control documentation, SSP and POA&M management, control assessments, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, ATO preparation, incident response coordination, and FISMA compliance. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders, cloud security experience, cybersecurity governance tool use, Security+ certification, and eligibility for a Public Trust.