Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

The Senior Application Security Engineer ensures the security of systems and data by monitoring vulnerabilities, responding to incidents, and promoting security best practices within the organization.

Lead security initiatives by establishing secure development practices, conducting security reviews, as well as managing threat modeling and security assessments.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.

Lead hands-on security engineer responsible for designing, implementing, hardening, automating, and optimizing enterprise security controls across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, email, and data protection. Builds and maintains security platforms (SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR), develops detection logic, automates workflows, supports incident response, and partners with cross-functional teams to raise security engineering maturity and reduce risk.

Lead and grow the security operations team to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across endpoints, identity, email, and cloud. Develop SecOps strategy, incident response playbooks, run tabletop exercises, manage SIEM/EDR/email security, drive identity governance, vendor/MSSP relationships, and report security KPIs to leadership.

Customer-facing role to drive security transformation on Azure and Microsoft 365. Architect, design, and implement cloud security, identity, threat protection, and information protection solutions; run design sessions, perform hands-on evaluations (Defender, Sentinel, AAD, Intune), troubleshoot implementations, and influence product and engineering teams to improve customer security posture and adoption.

Design and assess secure systems for Microsoft business operations: perform threat modeling and security design assessments, drive risk-based architecture decisions, communicate risk, mentor teammates, and ensure compliance with security policies and screenings.

Design and review security controls across cloud, network, and enterprise environments. Conduct network and cloud security assessments, evaluate tool configurations, support onboarding, develop policies/standards, perform gap analyses, and advise cross-functional teams to reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance.

Perform advanced threat hunting and deep analysis of attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, notify customers of imminent threats, build proof-of-concept hunting tools and automations, synthesize findings into mitigation recommendations, and drive product/tool improvements by transferring threat intelligence and investigation best practices to engineering and customer teams.

Hands-on senior IT security systems administrator responsible for administering Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, managing Windows and Mac endpoints via MDM, operating identity and SSO/MFA systems, and running security tooling (EDR, DLP, SIEM, email security). Owns threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability and patch management, compliance evidence, DR planning, security reporting, and vendor relationships for a remote distributed workforce.

Hands-on Staff Security Engineer to build and operate DevSecOps capabilities: automate security controls, harden AWS/cloud and CI/CD, improve supply-chain security, build detection/response tooling, partner with engineering for secure design, and lead incident response and compliance automation.

Design, deliver, and support Microsoft cloud security solutions for mission-critical customers. Provide proactive and reactive support, lead architectural sessions, implement identity and Zero Trust controls, optimize Azure resiliency and security posture, coordinate incident resolution with internal teams, and contribute to on-call rotations and continuous improvement.

Lead research and deliver strategic and tactical advice on AI data security and AI ecosystem data management. Produce written research, briefings, and presentations; advise clients and stakeholders; grow networks of thought leaders and vendors; ensure research integrity and collaborate across Gartner to support deliverables. Travel up to 25%.

Own security and infrastructure for a fintech payments platform, with security comprising roughly two-thirds of the role. Responsibilities include cloud and application security, IAM, secrets management, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance, privacy, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, backups, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. The role reports to the CTO and will establish the security function as the company’s founding security hire.

Serve as a senior security solution architect advising enterprise customers on modern, cloud-native Microsoft security architectures. Design and validate solutions using Microsoft security products, remove technical blockers, act as SME on complex deployments, gather customer insights to influence product roadmap and map solutions to business outcomes, and support large-scale security and compliance projects.

Lead solution sales for Microsoft Security with enterprise customers: identify opportunities, build solutions and business cases, manage senior relationships and pipeline, collaborate with partners and internal teams, forecast and pursue high-potential accounts, and obtain relevant product/role certifications.

Lead a U.S.-based team of Security Operations Engineers and TPMs to design, build, and operationalize identity protections that reduce lateral-movement risk. Define strategy, apply AI and automation, partner with engineering and platform teams, deliver scalable controls, and drive measurable security outcomes, operational readiness, and executive reporting.

Designs and implements security controls across cloud platforms, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audits infrastructure for weaknesses, develops security and privacy improvements, performs threat modeling, and drives remediation. The role includes software development, infrastructure security, incident containment, and technical security analysis while collaborating with engineering teams in a distributed startup environment.

Conduct application security assessments, identify and validate vulnerabilities, perform dynamic testing and static code reviews, and recommend remediation strategies. Collaborate with development teams to improve application security, use tools such as Burp Suite, and stay current with application security methodologies, web vulnerabilities, and exploitation techniques.

Lead Wikimedia Foundation’s product security strategy, prioritize security and privacy engineering initiatives, develop platform interventions against threats, strengthen organizational security culture, and communicate with Wikimedia communities. The role partners with cross-functional and departmental leaders on information security, represents the Foundation to volunteers, and applies AI-based tools to security analysis, code review, and software engineering. Prior product management experience is not required, but strong technical, security, communication, and online-community experience are important.

Supports implementation and operation of data security posture management capabilities. Defines requirements, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, supports system testing and implementation, monitors compliance and remediation, assists data owners with resolving sensitive-data violations, and recommends improvements to security processes, reporting, controls, and workflows. The role transitions into ongoing data security operations focused on secure data handling, retention, protection, and governance.

Manages information security risks, vendor and third-party risk reviews, mitigation plans, policy exceptions, and compliance reporting. Partners with stakeholders and Enterprise Risk Management to maintain risk policies within tolerance. Serves as a technical expert, supports risk awareness and accountability, monitors security controls, and contributes to operational goals. The role requires expertise in IT audit, security monitoring, access management, encryption, networking, incident response, SOX compliance, and project management.

Lead complex cloud, identity, supply-chain, and nation-state security investigations. Perform root-cause analysis, threat hunting, blast-radius assessment, attribution, and incident response across Microsoft telemetry. Operationalize intelligence into queries, detections, playbooks, and platform fixes; investigate adversary tradecraft; use AI-assisted tooling; produce executive-ready reports; and mentor peers in advanced investigations, forensics, and reverse engineering.

Conduct internal and external network, web application, API, mobile, cloud, social engineering, and wireless penetration tests. Advise clients on security and compliance, simulate cyberattacks, generate assessment reports, support engagement scoping and remediation, improve testing methodologies, manage escalations, and mentor junior staff while meeting delivery and utilization targets.

Defines enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, security controls, and multi-year roadmaps across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Enterprise, AI platforms, and infrastructure. Leads cloud governance, migration, modernization, FinOps, developer platform management, AI governance, and security architecture initiatives. Advises executives, ensures compliance and risk alignment, drives operational excellence, and mentors architects and engineers.