Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead scoping, presales, design, implementation, and optimization of F5 application delivery and security solutions. Act as F5 SME, build SOWs/LOEs, troubleshoot complex deployments, mentor consultants, and develop practice offerings and integrations with SIEM/SOAR/CMDB tools.

Build reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products to surface security, fraud, and infrastructure risks. Use big-data technologies (Spark, Presto, Flink, Kafka) and advanced SQL to ETL, model, maintain datasets, and enable analytics for security teams. Partner cross-functionally and lead complex system design and implementation.

Lead technical IAM delivery tasks: conduct current-state discovery, configure and validate IGA/PAM/Access Management platforms, perform gap analyses against frameworks, produce client deliverables (assessments, diagrams, maturity scores), facilitate workshops, and support pre-sales and practice development while growing toward workstream ownership.

Lead and execute Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) delivery tasks: conduct risk assessments, gap analyses, control and policy design, third‑party risk evaluations, and produce client-ready deliverables. Facilitate discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews, support program and roadmap recommendations, contribute to pre-sales and practice assets, and grow toward owning full workstreams while coaching junior team members.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products to enable security and fraud detection. Implement ETL, data models, and distributed processing (Spark/Presto/Flink/Kafka) to centralize signals, support analytics and machine learning, and partner with security teams to improve detection and mitigation of fraud and account compromise.

Principal consultant advising executives on enterprise cryptography, key management, HSM and PKI architecture, and post-quantum readiness. Leads cryptographic discovery, risk assessments, PQC migration planning, and crypto-agility designs. Architects key lifecycle programs, HSM/Cloud KMS strategies, and PKI modernization; aligns controls to NIST/ISO/regulatory standards, leads transformation programs, vendor evaluations, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.

Plan and execute offensive tests across web apps, APIs, networks, and cloud; retest fixes; scope and oversee engagements; produce actionable reports and metrics; collaborate with engineering, security, and GRC; evolve playbooks and tooling; mentor team members and incorporate adversary-focused threat modeling and detection feedback.

Design, implement, and validate scalable endpoint security controls across Mac, Windows, and Linux. Lead patch and vulnerability management, host hardening, exploit validation, and threat-prioritization. Evaluate build vs. buy options, collaborate cross-functionally, translate technical risk to business impact, and provide business-hours operational support with infrequent incident response.

Develop, implement, and maintain the banks enterprise information security program. Independently assess first-line security risk management, regulatory compliance, incident response, and control effectiveness. Oversee security governance, policy, KRIs, business continuity, and third-line coordination. Provide unfiltered reporting and challenge to executive management and the Board and lead post-incident reviews and resilience testing.

Design, build, and operate runtime provisioning and secure transport systems to authenticate Netflix client applications at scale. Collaborate with client engineering across devices and platforms, apply applied cryptography and attacker mindset to validate controls, and take end-to-end ownership from design through in-field impact while balancing security and product tradeoffs.

Architect and implement system-level security for Open Connect edge and gaming appliances across hardware (FPGA, BMC, BIOS/UEFI), kernels and dual OS (FreeBSD/Linux). Improve platform integrity (measured/secure boot, BMC controls), triage system-level vulnerabilities, build low-level tooling and automation, and partner cross-functionally and with vendors to harden binary ingestion and execution.

Provide engineering-first customer support for security, privacy, and assurance tooling. Triage and resolve authentication and access issues, build automation and runbooks, maintain support tooling, and improve developer experience. Use Generative AI responsibly to accelerate triage, documentation, and automation while advocating for customers and collaborating with product and engineering partners.

Own protocol and cryptographic foundations for Netflix Open Connect edge appliances. Design and implement security primitives, optimize crypto/transport for performance, build DoS mitigations, conduct vulnerability research, and partner cross-functionally to deploy end-to-end security controls across delivery infrastructure.

Serve as a public-facing Web3 security researcher: engage the community via social media, speak at conferences, give interviews, collaborate cross-functionally with CertiK teams, and support marketing and product feedback while performing technical Web3 security work.

Lead and perform application and network penetration tests, source code and cloud security reviews, and produce clear pentest reports. Research and develop pentesting tools/methods for blockchain and Web3, contribute to community content, and support client security engagements.

Perform smart contract and protocol audits, consult with external blockchain teams on remediation, conduct security research, and build internal security tools and methodologies to protect Web3 projects and clients.

Develop and optimize LLM-driven AI agents to automate smart contract security audits. Collaborate with blockchain security teams to research, prototype, and productionize threat detection, risk assessment, and automated vulnerability analysis for blockchain environments.

Join a security research team to develop analysis tools, review sandbox/VM and network modules, discover vulnerabilities and create PoC exploits for distributed systems, and publish findings. Research areas include malware analysis, vulnerability detection, network anomaly detection, mobile app analysis, reverse engineering, and fraud detection.

Perform end-to-end blockchain security services including consulting, manual code reviews and audits of smart contracts and protocols (Solidity, Go, Rust), threat modeling, property-based and gas-related testing, penetration testing, and deliver detailed security assessments to clients.

Perform guided audits of smart contracts, blockchain protocols, and dApps to identify and remediate vulnerabilities. Contribute to security tooling and research, explore attack vectors, and support process and methodology improvements under senior guidance.

Perform smart contract and blockchain audits to find and analyze vulnerabilities, define attack models, extract exploit characteristics to build feature-analysis tooling, and research/adopt analysis tools and emerging blockchain security technologies.

Serve as a senior security operations advisor: lead incident response, tune detection tooling (SIEM/SOAR/XDR/EDR), apply identity-centric and Zero Trust controls, advise product/R&D on secure-by-design, document runbooks and metrics, automate tasks, mentor teammates, and communicate findings across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own outbound field motion for Identity Threat Protection launch, validate messaging in live deals, synthesize field intelligence into product recommendations, run adoption diagnostics, and provide technical escalation support for complex identity situations.

Lead proactive threat hunts and complex incident investigations across cloud and SaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365). Convert intelligence into hunt leads, detections, and customer narratives; triage alerts, mentor peers, and act as Incident Commander when needed. Leverage automation and AI to scale detection and response and drive improvements to processes and tooling.

Revenue-facing Sales Engineer who drives enterprise deals by delivering narrative-driven demos, co-owning sales cycles with AEs, defining POVs, multithreading technical and executive stakeholders, surfacing compelling events, translating technical risk into business outcomes, influencing product roadmap, enabling partners, and maintaining disciplined pipeline hygiene. Must stay current on cloud, SaaS, identity attack surfaces and SecOps trends.