Top Cyber Security Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Monitors security events across SIEM, intrusion detection, firewall, system, application, and database sources. Maintains security procedures and documentation, conducts security assessments, evaluates security requirements, supports policy and metrics development, ensures system and application compliance, advises users and management, and assists with information security projects.

Conduct advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Identify and exploit novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities; develop proof-of-concept exploits, testing methodologies, and research automation; assess AI attack vectors and open-source dependencies; drive remediation and security improvements; advise engineering teams, contribute to roadmaps, mentor researchers, and share findings with the security community.

Conducts advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Responsibilities include discovering and exploiting systemic vulnerabilities, penetration testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits, researching AI and agentic security threats, building automated research tooling, coordinating remediation, mentoring security professionals, and communicating findings to engineering and security communities.

Designs and leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture across network, cloud, endpoint, identity, and data environments. Develops security strategies, governance frameworks, and controls; conducts risk assessments, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and incident response. Oversees security tool integration, regulatory compliance, third-party risk, and secure development practices. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional guidance to protect business-critical systems and minimize cyber risk.

Own product and protocol security across Jito’s Solana-based products. Responsibilities include threat modeling, secure design and code reviews, deployment hardening, internal audits, onchain monitoring, bug bounty operations, remediation tracking, AI-assisted security testing, and key and asset risk management. The role requires production software engineering experience, strong application security expertise, security automation skills, and familiarity with Web3, crypto, or DeFi.

Provides information security support for federal healthcare systems, including security architecture reviews, firewall and infrastructure initiatives, security impact assessments, mitigating controls, system security plans, SOPs, and POA&M remediation. Advises development teams and customer security organizations on federal security requirements, emerging practices such as Zero Trust and SBOM, network monitoring, authentication, and data security. The role is remote and requires passing an IHS background check for Public Trust eligibility.

Supports security operations by onboarding and troubleshooting network monitoring infrastructure, triaging security-device issues, resolving escalated customer problems, coordinating vendor maintenance, and managing hardware sensors. The role collaborates with SOC analysts, assists with testing and quality assurance, provides customer support, and participates in on-call incident response. Requires network and security administration experience, TCP/IP knowledge, command-line expertise, and troubleshooting across Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Designs, deploys, and manages enterprise cloud security solutions across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include automating security controls, managing AWS WAF and CDK rules, improving policies, patching vulnerabilities, implementing DevSecOps practices, assessing cloud applications and APIs, monitoring security posture, analyzing logs, triaging issues, and supporting compliance and risk initiatives.

Lead Stord’s enterprise security function and build its long-term strategy, governance, operations, engineering, application and cloud security capabilities. Own NIST, SOC 2 and ISO programs, 24/7 detection and response, incident management, M&A security integration, secure product development, penetration testing, customer trust, business continuity and disaster recovery. Lead the security team, MDR partnership, executive and board communications, AI governance, and security readiness for international growth, acquisitions and potential public-market scrutiny.

Architect and engineer multi-tenant SIEM, SOAR, EDR, telemetry, and cloud security platforms for managed security services. Build detection content, automate response workflows, optimize log ingestion, and secure customer connectivity. Lead technical discovery, onboarding, security assessments, remediation planning, escalations, solution design, and customer advisory engagements. Create architectures, runbooks, and documentation while shaping the MSSP technology strategy.

Engineer and operate SIEM and SOAR platforms supporting SOC and MDR services. Responsibilities include log-source onboarding, parsing, enrichment, detection engineering, playbook automation, alert and dashboard development, end-to-end pipeline troubleshooting, vendor escalations, customer onboarding, ingest-volume management, documentation, and platform incident response. The role serves as the technical escalation point and participates in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Supports the IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance program through security risk assessments, policy administration, audit readiness, control validation, evidence collection, remediation tracking, regulatory compliance monitoring, and third-party risk reviews. The role maps controls to frameworks including HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, CIS, CMS, and URAC; maintains risk registers and governance documentation; and partners with technical and business teams to address vulnerabilities, control gaps, and compliance requirements.

Designs, configures, and operates ServiceNow Security Operations and Vulnerability Response capabilities. Builds vulnerability lifecycle workflows, risk-based prioritization models, dashboards, and SLA monitoring. Integrates scanners and security tools such as Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, Defender, and CrowdStrike through APIs. Uses CMDB, Discovery, and Service Mapping to improve asset context and vulnerability correlation. Supports remediation coordination, incident investigations, governance, reporting, documentation, and continuous improvement for client exposure management programs.

Deploys and operates Axonius Asset Cloud for cyber asset management, exposure management, and risk-based vulnerability prioritization. Builds integrations, unified asset inventories, correlation models, dashboards, and automated remediation workflows. Supports CNAPP and cloud security operations, vulnerability remediation tracking, platform maintenance, scripting, API integrations, and client engagements. Requires cybersecurity engineering experience, Axonius or comparable CAASM expertise, vulnerability management knowledge, and automation skills.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, support security reviews before production, and communicate risks and remediation priorities to engineering teams.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP Cloud Service Provider assessments. Reviews full-stack architectures, authorization packages, security controls, policies, assessment reports, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests for compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, supports continuous monitoring, advises government program leaders and CISOs, and provides security recommendations for cloud systems.

Build, secure, automate, and operate AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure while supporting HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance. Responsibilities include Terraform development, CI/CD security, IAM, vulnerability management, observability, SIEM integrations, incident response, infrastructure hardening, scripting, technical documentation, and cross-functional automation. The role also participates in on-call coverage and evaluates new security and infrastructure tools.

Build and scale application security for a SaaS platform by integrating SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, and container/IaC checks into CI/CD. Partner with engineering and DevOps teams on threat modeling, secure code reviews, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and secure development practices. The role also supports compliance goals and translates security risks clearly to engineers.

Implement and configure SailPoint IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud solutions, including identity lifecycle management, access certifications, provisioning, integrations, workflows, rules, and application onboarding. Lead or support IIQ-to-ISC migrations, gather client requirements, create technical documentation, troubleshoot deployments, and support UAT and hypercare. The role also involves client interaction, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to reusable delivery assets in a remote consulting environment.

Leads security operations and corporate IT for a healthcare technology company handling PHI. Responsibilities include incident response, application and cloud security, IAM, endpoint management, vendor reviews, security policies, compliance support for HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST, and management of three direct reports. The role also builds AI-driven automation tools and workflows for IT and security operations while partnering with executives, engineers, customers, auditors, and compliance leaders.

Monitor, investigate, and respond to global security incidents; lead incident response as an incident commander; develop security alerts, playbooks, automated actions, and escalation workflows; conduct threat hunting and threat intelligence research; improve detection, containment, and post-incident processes; collaborate with stakeholders; and participate in an on-call rotation.

Supports IT solution design and implementation, analyzes cybersecurity protocols and recommends improvements, and collaborates with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The internship provides hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, and exposure to aerospace technology. Candidates must be enrolled in a relevant bachelor's or higher degree program, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and graduate in December 2027 or later.

Monitor and investigate security alerts across client environments in a 24/7 security operations center. Analyze threats, identify malicious activity and indicators of compromise, distinguish false positives, support incident response and remediation, develop vulnerability reports, and communicate findings to technical and executive audiences. Participate in shift handoffs and rotating incident triage coverage while collaborating with incident response teams.

Leads and coordinates security and operational incident response for infrastructure, platforms, hosting, and customer environments. Serves as incident commander, manages escalations and communications, facilitates bridge calls and post-mortems, analyzes incident trends, maintains response procedures, and tracks corrective actions. Partners with technical and leadership teams to improve incident management maturity, accountability, governance, reporting, and operational transparency during high-severity events.

Leads the organization’s cybersecurity program, including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, security architecture, automation, and AI adoption. Manages security staff, vendors, MDR providers, projects, policies, audits, and operational improvements while reporting risks and performance to senior leadership. The role also drives security awareness, cross-functional collaboration, incident preparedness, and team development.