Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Implements and supports security data ingestion pipelines across applications, cloud services, infrastructure, security tools, and business systems. Develops transformations, parsing, normalization, enrichment, masking, validation, and delivery workflows. Troubleshoots data quality and pipeline issues, documents architectures and data flows, coordinates with client stakeholders, and supports SIEM, detection, investigation, observability, and automation use cases. Requires data engineering experience, scripting, query languages, integration knowledge, and strong client communication.

Leads enterprise data protection initiatives, including data classification, DLP policy management, eDiscovery support, insider threat investigations, and data governance. Uses behavioral analytics, audit logs, SIEM, UEBA, and forensic tools to identify misuse and leakage. Develops security controls, incident response playbooks, and compliance updates while collaborating with Legal, HR, and Compliance. Participates in threat-hunting and red, blue, and purple team exercises. Requires five-plus years of relevant experience and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Lead product security initiatives for cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture reviews, identifying systemic weaknesses, developing secure-by-design guidance and reference architectures, advising engineering and product leaders, leveraging AI and automation for scalable security assessments, investigating emerging attack paths, mentoring teams, and improving security review methodologies and tooling.

Owns IT systems administration and security operations for a fully remote workforce. Responsibilities include managing Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, endpoint and identity platforms, security tools, access controls, threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, vendor relationships, reporting, and operational roadmaps.

Manage SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance programs, including internal and external audits, control enforcement, corrective actions, and policy updates. Monitor security alerts, support incident investigations, coordinate penetration testing, and administer password and phishing management systems. Lead security awareness initiatives, advise stakeholders, collaborate with Legal on encryption regulations, and drive continuous improvements to the organization’s information security posture.

Security Engineer responsible for application security, vulnerability and threat management, cloud and Kubernetes security, DevSecOps tooling, incident response, forensic analysis, and secure system architecture. The role integrates security testing into CI/CD pipelines, automates security tasks, supports IAM and cryptographic key management, and collaborates with engineering teams to strengthen security processes and tooling.

Leads complex digital forensics and incident response engagements, including ransomware, APT, nation-state, insider threat, host and network forensics, malware triage, cloud investigations, and threat attribution. Provides technical oversight, client leadership, methodology development, mentorship, tooling improvements, pre-sales support, and external thought leadership. Participates in on-call coverage and supports high-severity incident surges.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud security controls for Vercel's platform. Harden infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and policy enforcement, secure CI/CD pipelines, perform threat modeling and risk analysis, improve monitoring and incident response, and build platform-level security tooling in collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams.

The Senior Security Engineer will secure cloud infrastructure across various services, develop security policies, manage exceptions, and respond to security alerts while collaborating with teams to eliminate security risks.

Leads cybersecurity execution across Danaher’s global Life Sciences operating companies. Owns cyber strategy implementation, risk and vulnerability management, security architecture, assurance, certifications, data and application security, product security coordination, M&A cyber integration, and OT/manufacturing security. Builds globally distributed security teams, manages matrixed stakeholders, supports regulated environments, and oversees cyber PMO performance. The role is based in Washington, D.C., remote/hybrid, and requires 25–30% international travel.

Own the full lifecycle of enterprise cybersecurity accounts, from deployment planning and integrations through adoption, renewal, and expansion. Serve as the primary technical contact for security, engineering, and IT stakeholders. Guide vulnerability management workflows, cloud and scanning-tool integrations, remediation prioritization, and compliance reporting. Translate customer feedback into product improvements and create scalable onboarding playbooks.

Own FAR.AI’s internal IT and security function, including accounts, devices, identity and access management, onboarding, offboarding, office networking, support, endpoint hardening, data protection, governance, and vendor risk. The role will remediate security gaps using threat modeling, automate self-service infrastructure, partner across teams, communicate and manage change, and hire and lead an IT Coordinator.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Lead application security for products by performing threat modeling, manual secure code reviews, and penetration testing. Collaborate with engineers to remediate defects, build AppSec automation and tooling, secure cloud/containerized applications, and drive bug-bounty responses to harden platform security.

Leads end-to-end cybersecurity execution across Danaher's global Diagnostics operating companies. Responsibilities include managing distributed security teams, cyber risk and vulnerability programs, architecture reviews, assurance and certifications, connected medical device product security, data and AI security, M&A cyber integration, application security, and OT/manufacturing security. The role serves as the senior cybersecurity leader for the platform, influencing executives and operating companies while driving regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and global security initiatives.

Leads engineering operations, security, DevOps, quality engineering, cloud infrastructure, corporate IT, data integrations, and customer-facing technical escalations. Owns security strategy and compliance, incident management, on-call practices, reliability metrics, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations. Develops managers and senior engineers, restructures inherited teams, establishes service-level agreements, and drives automation and operational efficiency across the organization.

Supports cybersecurity compliance and system authorization activities for assigned information systems. Maintains RMF documentation and eMASS artifacts, reviews access requests, tracks vulnerabilities and incidents, coordinates with stakeholders, supports audits and risk assessments, validates STIG compliance, and assists with contingency planning and recovery testing under Federal and military cybersecurity requirements.

Lead the AWS cloud security program and manage security engineering teams. Establish AWS security standards, oversee IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, Terraform automation, CI/CD security, incident response, and secure architecture reviews. Manage risk registers, compliance workflows, audits, control testing, and FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, and SA&A readiness. Guide investigations, remediation, runbooks, tabletop exercises, and secure cloud practices while reporting risks and metrics to leadership.

Monitor and secure federal cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Perform cloud threat hunting, log analysis, incident response, and develop cloud security playbooks and monitoring use cases. Ensure cloud logs are integrated with SIEM tools, tune detection systems, establish KPIs, support threat information sharing, and assist with cloud SOC tool deployment and proof-of-concept efforts.

Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise security technologies while monitoring, detecting, investigating, and remediating security incidents. Perform digital forensics, threat hunting, vulnerability and risk assessments, audits, compliance checks, evidence preservation, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with internal teams and third parties, implement new security solutions, create security documentation, and support incident response during regular and on-call hours.

Partner with sales to design and present data security solutions for SLED customers. Lead technical evaluations, gather requirements, build test plans, configure proof-of-concepts, and guide customers to successful outcomes while collaborating across GTM teams.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for software security across Block. Design and deliver security solutions, drive Secure SDLC adoption, threat model critical systems, mentor engineers, and execute high-priority security initiatives for scalable, resilient security services and mobile/platform security.

Design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud (AWS) and on-prem systems. Lead vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation. Serve as SME for SIEM, SAST/DAST, IAM. Embed security in SDLC, support SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit readiness, mentor junior engineers, and recommend control improvements.

Leads end-to-end Cisco Duo MFA and access management engagements, including architecture, deployment, integrations, migrations, automation, device trust, security reviews, documentation, and client handoff. Supports Okta and Ping Identity projects, contributes to presales activities, owns technical delivery, mentors junior engineers, and manages client communication. The role integrates identity platforms with VPNs, cloud services, applications, directories, endpoint management tools, and enterprise infrastructure.