Top Cyber Security Jobs in Rochester, NY

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Designs and advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.

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.

Leads OT/ICS and enterprise cybersecurity architecture for a federal critical-infrastructure modernization program. Responsibilities include requirements development, NERC CIP traceability, market research, RFI and vendor evaluation, lab testing, alternatives analysis, product recommendations, and executive briefings. The role bridges utility operational technology and IT security, covering access control, monitoring, asset management, vulnerability management, SCADA environments, and industrial systems. It is fully remote in the U.S. with up to 25% domestic travel and requires Public Trust eligibility.

Leads data security governance across database monitoring, encryption, certificate and key management, HSM operations, data masking, and cryptographic asset inventory. Manages a security governance team, develops controls and procedures, supports audits and regulatory inquiries, partners cross-functionally, and drives post-quantum cryptography readiness, automation, metrics, service reliability, and operational maturity.

Secure Wiz’s products, CI/CD systems, and production cloud infrastructure through threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management, detection and response, cloud and Kubernetes security baselines, policy-as-code, and automation. Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and Federal teams to implement scalable security controls, remediate risks, support FedRAMP requirements, and promote secure-by-design development practices.

The GRC Analyst will operate and improve security compliance programs across SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and FedRAMP. Responsibilities include risk and control assessments, audit readiness, evidence collection, remediation tracking, policy management, third-party risk, customer security questionnaires, and maintaining GRC systems. The role partners with technical and business teams, researches requirements, and uses cloud-based tools, AI, and automation to make compliance processes more scalable.

Provides security operations and technical support for MDR customers, including alert investigation, incident response support, log analysis, remediation validation, endpoint onboarding, platform administration, compliance reviews, and security advisory guidance. The role troubleshoots MDR technologies, documents findings and runbooks, supports escalated DFIR investigations, and collaborates with technical account managers, MDR teams, and customers.

Secure Windows products and devices through security design and code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability research, fuzzing, and mitigation development. Build reusable security-review tools, identify vulnerabilities in operating-system features and native applications, investigate attack vectors, and collaborate with Windows engineering teams to implement scalable defenses. The role also involves engaging with external security researchers and communicating the business value of security investments.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Microsoft's AI Safety Platform, building observability, detection, investigation, threat-hunting, and distributed data-processing capabilities. Design attack detection infrastructure, correlate high-volume telemetry, apply AI security research, conduct security and privacy reviews, and partner across engineering, science, and incident response teams. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex AI security systems.

Leads technical security sales engagements through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, and customer consultations. Designs secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, and advises customers on Microsoft Security solutions, including Defender and Sentinel. Develops security posture recommendations, supports XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and AI adoption strategies, while influencing technical decisions and representing Microsoft in developer communities.

Leads complex security alert triage, incident investigations, threat hunting, detection improvement, and incident response. Develops playbooks, operationalizes threat intelligence, builds automation, and mentors analysts. The role partners with detection engineering to improve security monitoring across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, and application telemetry while raising investigation and documentation standards.

Lead Zeta’s AI-native Application Security function by defining strategy, building the team, embedding security agents and policy-as-code into IDEs, pull requests, CI/CD, and AI/ML pipelines, and overseeing continuous threat modeling and validation. Own security for AI systems, models, prompts, and agents, including adversarial testing for prompt injection, model abuse, and data leakage. Mentor engineers and promote automated, secure software development practices.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS cloud security policies, architecture, and technologies. The role oversees firewalls, DLP, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, logging, IAM, incident response, compliance, and remediation. It provides security guidance for AWS solutions, supports migrations of mission-critical applications, researches new technologies, documents standards, presents to varied audiences, and mentors less experienced engineers. The position requires strong AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code proficiency, knowledge of regulated healthcare environments, and experience securing highly available cloud and serverless architectures.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Lead the development of SailPoint’s cybersecurity architecture practice. Create holistic and reference architectures, define security domains, develop strategic roadmaps, identify security gaps, and translate architectural concepts into viable engineering solutions. Partner with leadership to prioritize initiatives, secure funding, and operationalize the practice. The role also includes hands-on security projects, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, and mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, application, identity, and network security.

Designs and operates controlled cyber-capability evaluations for frontier AI models and agentic systems. Builds vulnerable applications, cyber ranges, exploit-development targets, and evaluation harnesses; runs experiments; collects telemetry; analyzes model behavior and evaluation artifacts; and documents security findings. The role also develops sandboxing, containment, access, and secrets-management controls while collaborating with red-team operators, researchers, engineers, and Responsible AI stakeholders.

Oversee application security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and security-related release readiness while developing and maintaining full-stack Java web applications. Coordinate with IRS personnel, create remediation milestones, lead technical meetings, troubleshoot environments, review code, perform testing, and document technical solutions. The role requires extensive J2EE development, security tooling, CI/CD, OpenShift, mainframe integration, and vulnerability management experience in a federal environment.

Supports cloud security operations across Azure and AWS, including posture management, identity and access controls, architecture reviews, network security, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code reviews, data protection, monitoring, incident response, compliance assessments, and leadership reporting. Coordinates remediation with infrastructure, application development, and information security teams while maintaining cloud security policies, dashboards, documentation, and audit evidence.

Own security partnerships for Netflix Marketing and Animation, advising leaders on risk, GenAI adoption, access controls, content protection, architecture, and remediation. Lead risk assessments, business risk profiles, metrics, and pre-release content security initiatives. Support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries while translating complex security concerns into actionable business guidance across application, cloud, identity, and data domains.

Implements and maintains security technologies across endpoint, network, cloud, server, and mobile environments. Monitors alerts, investigates incidents, performs vulnerability assessments, develops detection rules, hardens systems, supports identity and access controls, automates security tasks, and coordinates remediation. The role also supports audits, security reviews, documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with IT and security teams.

Supports cybersecurity risk management and authorization for the VA.gov Platform. Assesses NIST security controls, performs gap and risk analyses, maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, and authorization evidence, and translates deficiencies into engineering remediation. The role supports ATO/cATO readiness, OSCAL automation, threat modeling, secure design reviews, stakeholder coordination, incident response, and continuous synchronization between technical changes and security documentation.

Supports cybersecurity operations, incident response, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, security project execution, governance, compliance, reporting, and dashboard development. The role coordinates with technical and business stakeholders to investigate alerts, validate remediation, support audits, maintain security documentation, and improve security processes. Requires at least three years of relevant technical or information security experience, with preferred experience in CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Microsoft O365, SIEM, GRC, and security certifications.

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.

Own the day-to-day security and compliance program for a HIPAA-regulated AI healthcare platform. Responsibilities include managing risk assessments, penetration-test remediation, vendor and BAA reviews, policies, device compliance, incident response, access-management initiatives, compliance automation, AI security guardrails, and board reporting. The role partners with the CPO, contractor CISO, IT administrator, and MSP while building readiness for SOC 2 or HITRUST certification.