Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Lead customer security strategy and architecture using Microsoft security products. Assess security posture, design cloud-native solutions, remove technical blockers, author customer insights, and support complex enterprise deployments to accelerate adoption and secure cloud/hybrid environments.

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.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Designs, implements, maintains, and supports security infrastructure, including firewalls, networks, cloud workloads, authentication, monitoring, threat hunting, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and security controls. The role maintains federal compliance, supports system hardening and access control, automates administration, contributes to cloud migration, documents technical processes, and participates in project and on-call support activities.

Leads large-scale security, IT, and engineering programs from strategy through execution. Coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, manages governance, risks, dependencies, and timelines, and develops unified security and compliance frameworks. The role drives control implementation, regulatory alignment, risk mitigation, process automation, continuous improvement, and a culture of compliance while connecting security initiatives to business goals and customer expectations.

Leads RapidFort’s cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and assurance programs. Owns the ISO 27001 ISMS, SOC 2 Type 2, FedRAMP authorization, and CMMC Level 2 programs; directs security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, identity governance, penetration testing, vendor risk, and security architecture. Reports risk to executive leadership and the Audit Committee, manages customer security assurance, oversees a compliance specialist, and serves as incident commander for declared security events.

Build backend services and distributed systems for a cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform. Develop scalable APIs, data pipelines, and platform components handling vulnerability, container, package, runtime, and SBOM data. Work across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments while solving concurrency, performance, reliability, and distributed processing challenges. Own projects from design through deployment, participate in architecture discussions, review code, and collaborate with security researchers and product teams.

Leads AI governance and cybersecurity risk advisory engagements for large, regulated organizations. Advises C-suite executives and boards on AI threats, regulatory requirements, governance operating models, risk assessments, control frameworks, and cyber resilience. Owns complex engagement delivery, client relationships, team leadership, business development, proposals, engagement economics, and practice growth. Develops methodologies, thought leadership, and risk-management solutions covering AI governance, cloud security, identity management, data protection, incident response, and third-party risk.

This role involves defining and leading the security and risk strategy for Circle's products, ensuring compliance across jurisdictions while managing product security, compliance operations, and risk assessment.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Manages enterprise information security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. Develops security policies and frameworks, leads data classification and threat modeling, conducts risk assessments, oversees vulnerability remediation, evaluates security controls, supports audits, and prepares risk metrics and executive reports. Partners with technical teams to embed security requirements and promotes governance best practices across the organization.

Own security partnerships for Customer Service and Creative Technology. Advise on GenAI and GenMedia security, customer data environments, cloud infrastructure, third-party tools, training data governance, and risk treatment. Build business risk profiles, drive remediation, report security posture, and support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries.

The Security Compliance Analyst manages cybersecurity, data privacy, classification, retention, governance, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and ATO documentation. Responsibilities include monitoring cloud environments and system logs, using SIEM tools, analyzing security risks, supporting security policies, reporting incidents, and ensuring compliance throughout the system lifecycle. The role also collaborates with Agile teams and stakeholders to protect sensitive data and resolve information assurance issues.

Leads enterprise security architecture for commercial banking and payments, developing secure, scalable strategies across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, and security platforms. Establishes architecture standards and reference patterns, embeds security into software development and CI/CD, advises on regulatory and risk requirements, and guides cloud modernization, identity, API, container, and data security initiatives. Partners with architects, engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, business, and executive stakeholders to influence technology decisions in a highly matrixed organization.

Lead Uber’s highest-severity security incidents from escalation through containment, recovery, and remediation. Command response teams, make high-consequence decisions, investigate logs and system data, brief executives, conduct post-incident analysis, mentor responders, and improve incident response through simulations, threat modeling, automation, and AI-assisted tooling.

The Security Sales Engineer will support the enterprise sales team, drive security product adoption, conduct demos, and provide technical support throughout the sales cycle.