Top Cyber Security Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Lead FIPS 140-3 evaluations and entropy source validations, including source code reviews, test planning, noise data analysis, entropy assessments, health-test evaluation, documentation, and CMVP submissions. Address reviewer comments, explain technical findings to customers, mentor colleagues, and improve testing automation and methods. The role requires cryptographic implementation knowledge, probability and statistics expertise, programming skills in C/C++ and Python, strong technical writing, and approximately 25% domestic travel.

Drive technical pre-sales engagements for Microsoft Security: build demos/PoCs, lead hands-on workshops, design secure cloud architectures, resolve technical blockers, and advise customers on improving security posture using Microsoft security products and AI-enabled solutions.

Designs and implements cloud security solutions for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 customers. Leads security architecture discussions, Zero Trust adoption, technical evaluations, implementation planning, troubleshooting, and enterprise security strategy. Advises executives and technical stakeholders on identity and access management, threat protection, cloud security, information protection, and secure-by-design architectures. Collaborates with Microsoft engineering, product, and security teams to remove blockers and orchestrates technical resources to deliver customer outcomes.

Secure software and cloud environments through threat modeling, code review, vulnerability remediation, security automation, detection engineering, and attack simulations. The role partners closely with Engineering, manages Snyk and Docker Scout findings, integrates security into CI/CD, coordinates third-party penetration testing for SOC 2 and HITRUST, and helps define secure architecture for mobile, data lake, AI, and production cloud systems.

Maintains the operational security posture of classified information systems supporting Collateral, SCI, and SAP environments. Responsibilities include authorization package management, compliance reviews, configuration change impact analysis, audit monitoring, vulnerability identification, incident handling, security documentation, system recovery oversight, and coordination with ISSM and authorization officials. The role requires SAP experience, TS/SCI clearance, eligibility for a CI polygraph, and on-site work with occasional travel.

Develop and formalize methods to validate reported vulnerabilities and generate/verify safe patches for internal NVIDIA targets. Define correctness, regression, and revalidation standards; produce repeatable, auditable processes and evidence. Apply AI-assisted workflows cautiously, perform bounded applied research on vulnerability classes, and document findings for independent security review.

Build and operate security controls, telemetry, detections, and enforcement for NVIDIA’s large-scale EDA compute, storage, and networking infrastructure across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Investigate threats, respond to incidents, automate secure configurations and compliance evidence, threat-model infrastructure, and manage security technology lifecycles. The role requires hands-on Linux, networking, programming, infrastructure security, and collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.

Leads Lilly’s enterprise security posture and exposure management organization. Owns vulnerability management strategy, scanning architecture, application security integration, offensive security oversight, risk-based prioritization, remediation SLAs, exposure reporting, tooling, automation, vendors, budget, and executive accountability. The role requires deep hands-on cybersecurity expertise and experience leading leaders across enterprise-scale vulnerability management or security operations.

Designs and builds secure AWS infrastructure for a regulated SaaS platform. Responsibilities include cloud security architecture, IAM, networking, containers, encryption, logging, monitoring, automated guardrails, risk remediation, reference architectures, and engineering mentorship. The role partners with application security and infrastructure teams to secure AWS environments across design and production, supporting compliance for financial services customers.

Design and lead the application security program centered on Wiz. Automate security throughout the SDLC, including code, dependency, secrets, container, infrastructure-as-code, and release scanning. Establish threat modeling, secure design reviews, and guardrails for AI-assisted development. Improve developer adoption by delivering accurate findings within existing tools, while mentoring the AppSec team and partnering with cloud and AI security architects.

Lead enterprise security architecture across software procurement, on-premises data centers, networks, infrastructure, identity, encryption, privileged access, and zero-trust design. Establish security standards, conduct practical third-party software and SaaS reviews, support cloud and application security architects, identify cross-domain gaps, and advise executives and engineering teams. The role requires broad cybersecurity expertise, regulated-industry experience, and strong risk-based decision-making.

Secure and maintain ServiceNow platforms across federal environments by implementing NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, and security hardening controls. Manage ATO packages, SSPs, POA&Ms, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, SIEM integrations, access governance, incident response, audits, configuration baselines, and secure ServiceNow development. Collaborate with platform teams, assessors, auditors, and system owners while reporting security posture metrics and leading security capability rollouts.

Design, administer, optimize, and support enterprise endpoint security platforms across a global environment. The role develops security baselines, hardening standards, automation workflows, and detection capabilities; investigates security events; supports incident response; evaluates security technologies; and partners with Cyber Operations, Infrastructure, Desktop Engineering, Identity, and DevOps/SecOps teams. Responsibilities include managing EDR, PAM, firewall, device control, API integrations, and security projects while improving overall endpoint security posture.

Supports Account Executives and senior engineers in qualifying, positioning, and solutioning Application Security and AI security opportunities. The role involves customer discovery, explaining security risks and architectural tradeoffs, demonstrating solutions, developing proposals and Statements of Work, researching emerging technologies, and participating in sales events. It focuses on DevSecOps, secure SDLC, AppSec, AI security, AI governance, and related technologies, with up to 25% travel.

Conducts novel research in AI security and cybersecurity, focusing on protecting AI models, agents, systems, and infrastructure. Develops tools and processes to identify and remediate weaknesses, researches adversarial machine learning and generative AI security, publishes findings, and collaborates across teams to improve security practices.

Lead insider risk detection engineering and investigations using EDR/XDR, UEBA, SIEM, and SOAR tools. Refine detection rules, reduce alert noise, close coverage gaps, manage investigations, develop playbooks, document evidence, mentor analysts, and collaborate discreetly with HR, Legal, business leaders, and executives. The role also requires investigative workflow automation using Python or JavaScript and ownership of scalable security processes.

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.