Top Cyber Security Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Lead end-to-end red team and adversary emulation operations across cloud, identity, network, endpoint, hardware, and operational environments. Develop offensive tooling, implants, and tradecraft; direct AI-driven autonomous agents; discover and exploit vulnerabilities; brief executive customers; provide defensive guidance; collaborate with threat intelligence and blue teams; establish operational standards; and mentor security operators.

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across products and AWS infrastructure, respond to security incidents, close security tickets, integrate security controls into CI/CD, review code and infrastructure, support SOC 2 and CASA compliance, and strengthen access management, secrets handling, and cloud hardening.

Owns company-wide security operations, cloud and infrastructure security, incident response, zero-trust architecture, blockchain treasury controls, compliance, privacy, production reliability, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, represents the company to auditors and customers, and builds security automation across GCP, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Ethereum infrastructure.

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.

Lead public sector security compliance initiatives, including FedRAMP continuous monitoring, audits, certifications, GRC strategy, compliance automation, documentation, customer support, and regulatory analysis. Collaborate with IT, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, auditors, and government customers to strengthen compliance across GitLab’s SaaS and self-managed offerings.

Leads and builds NVIDIA’s AI Safety and Security Engineering team, hiring engineers across platform, security research, evaluation, and vulnerability tooling. Owns the Find, Validate, and Patch roadmap; guides architecture and evaluation trade-offs; partners with security, platform, and evaluation leaders; and communicates engineering progress clearly. The role requires extensive software engineering and engineering management experience, with expertise in complex systems, ML infrastructure, security tooling, or distributed platforms.

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.

Performs cloud security engineering across AWS and GCP, including system hardening, vulnerability remediation, compliance scanning, cloud operations, security tooling, incident response, and troubleshooting across infrastructure and identity layers. Supports FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST 800-53 environments, participates in a 24×7 on-call rotation, maintains technical documentation, communicates with customers, and mentors junior engineers.

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.

Builds and operates cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, GovCloud, and other platforms. Responsibilities include IAM, encryption, secrets management, preventive and detective controls, PHI protection, logging pipelines, Terraform automation, security remediation, audit evidence, and compliance support for HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and FedRAMP.

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.

Own and improve vulnerability management across cloud, on-premises, network, and endpoint environments. Responsibilities include scanning, triage, risk-based prioritization, remediation coordination, SLA tracking, exception management, closure validation, asset reconciliation, reporting, incident support, on-call participation, and audit documentation. The role partners with Engineering, SRE, IT, and Infrastructure teams and uses security tooling and AI-assisted workflows to reduce exposure and recurring vulnerabilities.

Develops secure, isolated attack scenarios across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Reproduces vulnerabilities, builds multi-step attack chains, creates automated graders and reward signals, and validates outcomes using system state and telemetry. The role also develops attack variants and benign comparisons to evaluate AI security agents, partnering with threat researchers, AI engineers, and environment engineers.

Lead security reviews, code audits, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and mitigation efforts for Microsoft Windows services. Develop reusable security tools and agents, identify attack vectors and architectural risks, demonstrate exploit impact, and collaborate with product engineering teams to design scalable defenses and improve security investments.

Create challenging coding tasks for AI systems, implement deterministic solution verifiers, and contribute backend expertise across feature development, bug fixing, refactoring, performance optimization, testing, and security reviews. The role requires strong programming and software engineering skills, with cybersecurity experience in secure coding, application security, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or security-focused code reviews preferred.

Build and secure scalable backend services and APIs while debugging, optimizing performance, implementing features, refactoring codebases, and conducting security reviews and penetration testing. The role also involves automated testing, code review, vulnerability assessment, and contributing domain expertise to training next-generation AI systems.

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.

Manages information security risks, vendor and third-party risk reviews, mitigation plans, policy exceptions, and compliance reporting. Partners with stakeholders and Enterprise Risk Management to maintain risk policies within tolerance. Serves as a technical expert, supports risk awareness and accountability, monitors security controls, and contributes to operational goals. The role requires expertise in IT audit, security monitoring, access management, encryption, networking, incident response, SOX compliance, and project management.

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.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

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.