Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead product and application security strategy for the Endor Labs platform. Build scalable security tooling and automation, validate and remediate vulnerabilities, prevent insecure code merges, and apply LLMs and AI agents to security workflows. Conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews, secure CI/CD and build systems, influence product roadmaps, and collaborate with engineering, product, customers, and security stakeholders.

Implements and operates data security controls across cloud analytics platforms, databases, data lakes, storage, and pipelines. Responsibilities include encryption, key and secrets management, least-privilege access, data classification, masking, tokenization, database hardening, secure integrations, entitlement reviews, automation, telemetry, compliance evidence, threat modeling, documentation, and technical support. The role collaborates with security, data, governance, engineering, and IT teams while working remotely.

Own Playlist’s technical GRC architecture across multiple compliance frameworks, including PCI DSS, SOC, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and NIST. Design unified control mappings, maintain the Master Control List, manage control and evidence lifecycles, automate evidence collection, and translate requirements into engineering guidance. Build AI-powered GRC workflows for risk quantification, vendor assessment, and compliance monitoring while partnering with Engineering, Legal, Finance, and auditors.

Design and guide security architecture for NVIDIA networking firmware and embedded subsystems. Responsibilities include threat modeling, analyzing firmware and hardware interactions, defining lifecycle security features, translating threats into requirements, partnering with hardware architects, and driving secure firmware development practices such as memory-safe C, static analysis, and fuzzing. The role requires expertise in firmware security, authorization models, cryptography, secure boot, attestation, and embedded systems.

Own Playlist’s technical GRC architecture, including a unified Master Control List, cross-framework mappings, control lifecycles, evidence requirements, and audit automation. Build scalable GRC tooling and AI-powered workflows for risk quantification, vendor assessments, evidence collection, and compliance monitoring. Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, Finance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into actionable controls and harmonize compliance across multiple brands.

Owns and strengthens the security posture of cloud-based SaaS and Microsoft 365 environments. Responsibilities include vulnerability management, incident response, cloud and endpoint hardening, identity and data protection, secure configuration, monitoring, compliance evidence, customer security reviews, and risk management aligned with HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST, and related frameworks.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports enterprise cybersecurity solutions across IAM, endpoint, network, email, application, cloud, and security awareness domains. Conducts vulnerability assessments, threat hunting, incident investigation, security tool tuning, policy development, and security architecture reviews. Serves as a security subject matter expert on technology projects, collaborates with an MSSP, provides incident escalation support, and maintains availability for critical security operations.

Monitors and responds to security alerts and incidents across SIEM, endpoint, cloud, email, and network security tools. Collaborates with IT teams and service providers, improves security policies and procedures, supports ISO 27001 and SOC compliance, assists with audits and security assessments, and provides regional IT security support, including occasional out-of-hours incident response.

Leads cybersecurity solution sales for enterprise and small-to-medium business customers. Builds security transformation strategies, identifies and qualifies opportunities, develops pipelines, conducts consultative conversations, and drives complex cloud solution deals through closure. Partners with internal teams and channel partners on proposals, account planning, forecasting, competitive strategy, events, and customer outcomes. Serves as a cybersecurity subject matter expert, mentors colleagues, and supports customer adoption of AI, cloud, and security solutions.

Develop and evaluate backend security coding tasks for AI systems. Responsibilities include implementing backend features, fixing bugs, refactoring code, optimizing performance, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, conducting security-focused code reviews, and creating deterministic automated tests and verifiers. The role requires strong backend engineering, application security, debugging, testing, algorithms, and software architecture skills. Work is remote, flexible, part-time, and contractor-based.

Lead design, deployment, and scaling of enterprise DLP across cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and network with a focus on AI-driven automation. Build automated classification, remediation, and workflows, integrate DLP with SIEM/SOAR/identity/cloud, develop policies for regulatory compliance, mentor engineers, and present program insights to leadership.

Lead and own the enterprise SSPM program: implement and manage SSPM platform, onboard SaaS apps, tune controls, integrate with SIEM/SOAR/ITSM/identity, perform threat modeling and risk assessments, drive remediation, support compliance mapping, report metrics, and partner across cyber, IT, risk, and business teams to reduce data exposure and improve SaaS security posture.

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.

Customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect driving security transformation on Azure and Microsoft 365. Design and implement security architectures (Identity, Threat Protection, Cloud Security), run design sessions, perform hands-on evaluations of Defender, Sentinel, and Azure AD, and influence product and engineering teams to improve customer security posture and adoption.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, guide security monitoring and incident response, translate complex objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through code and design reviews.

Own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and lifecycle of enterprise data security products. Lead data governance, discovery, classification, DLP, access governance, compliance, and secure-by-design capabilities. Manage backlogs, Agile delivery, KPIs, stakeholder communication, and risk reduction outcomes while integrating AI to improve security workflows and productivity.

Leads architecture and implementation of Microsoft Red Team visibility, telemetry, monitoring, detection, alerting, deconfliction, and operational security capabilities. Designs scalable services and data pipelines, maintains authoritative operational asset inventories, identifies systemic security gaps, and drives durable engineering solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, debugging, incident response, mentorship, and cross-organizational influence while enabling authentic Red Team operations with strong defensive visibility and control.

Leads the enterprise cybersecurity program, including strategy, governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, security architecture, incident response, resilience, third-party risk, budgeting, and team development. Advises executives and the Board on cyber risk, oversees core security capabilities, improves program maturity, coordinates audits and regulatory obligations, and builds security awareness across the organization.

Own corporate detection and response, incident response, endpoint security, identity and SaaS security, Google Workspace governance, and corporate-to-production monitoring. Build LLM-driven security triage with measured evaluation, automate enforcement through vendor APIs, improve detection fidelity, and partner with engineering to ship security improvements. Manage Mac fleet security, phishing-resistant authentication, access reviews, DLP, OAuth governance, and containment playbooks.

Engineer and maintain enterprise network security platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design firewall and network security solutions, troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues, and automate infrastructure operations using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. Support platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integrations, validation processes, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with network, cloud, application, and security teams.

Lead engineering for enterprise network security platforms, including firewall infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible automation, APIs, and scripting. Troubleshoot complex network, cloud, and security issues; establish engineering standards; improve reliability and scalability; manage platform upgrades and vulnerability remediation; and provide technical leadership across engineering, networking, application, cloud, and security teams.

Investigate incidents, hunt threats, build detection and response automation, improve logging and visibility, lead complex investigations, conduct root cause analysis, and mentor teammates while shaping threat detection processes.

Build and mature an insider threat detection and response program through detection engineering, threat hunting, automation, incident response, and data exfiltration monitoring. The role partners with engineering, HR, and Legal on investigations, designs countermeasures, supports 24/7 on-call coverage, and contributes to security awareness initiatives.

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.

Maintain and mature Mozilla's ISMS and support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audit programs. Author system descriptions and policies, manage risk treatment plans, track remediation, support internal audits, and partner with Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Product to drive control ownership and audit readiness.