Top Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads Americas security architects in customer-facing engagements, enterprise security strategy, architecture reviews, escalations, and product feedback. Drives customer growth, security adoption, resilience, risk management, and AI transformation. Develops managers and technical leaders, builds high-performing teams, engages executive stakeholders, and provides technical thought leadership across Microsoft security solutions, cloud security, identity, data protection, SIEM, XDR, and security operations.

Leads the enterprise Red Team program, managing offensive security professionals and directing adversary emulation, Purple Team engagements, assumed-breach exercises, and AI security testing. Partners with cybersecurity, technology, legal, risk, and detection teams to improve controls, response, and resilience. Establishes operating standards, tools, metrics, and guardrails; translates findings into risk mitigation recommendations; supports compliance activities; and communicates outcomes to technical stakeholders and executives.

Build Tempo’s product security program from the ground up, including application, infrastructure, endpoint, and supply-chain security tooling. Identify and remediate production and development-pipeline risks, lead incident response through post-mortems, conduct secure design reviews, and establish scalable security practices. The role requires hands-on coding, deep incident-response expertise, strong infrastructure and application-security knowledge, and autonomous collaboration with engineering.

Serve as the ISSO for a high-visibility DoD program: develop and enforce security policies, perform vulnerability assessments (ACAS, STIGs, SCAP), implement DISA-approved configurations, conduct continuous monitoring, prepare ATO documentation (SSP, POA&Ms), perform risk assessments for satellite communications, and coordinate cross-functional cybersecurity efforts to mitigate risks and support authorization decisions.

Lead AppSec efforts across product, platform, and AI features by owning secure SDLC, performing threat modeling and deep code reviews, driving vulnerability management and remediation, building AppSec tooling and automations (including AI-assisted workflows), and enabling engineering teams with secure design guidance and training.

The Security Software Engineer will design and implement security controls for MongoDB Atlas, collaborating across engineering teams and ensuring adherence to high security standards.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead security design and implementation for cloud infrastructures, mentor teams, and automate security solutions.

Own Fetch’s information security function, including vulnerability management, application security, incident response, forensics, security architecture, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, AI governance, and security awareness. Serve as incident commander and senior technical authority, mature the security program, lead audits and executive reporting, manage security risks, and hire and develop the Security Engineering team.

Build and own automated security control monitoring, continuous control monitoring, AWS evidence collection, control-failure workflows, and AI-native GRC processes. Integrate APIs and data systems, maintain cross-framework control libraries, support audits, validate remediation, administer GRC technology, and establish engineering standards for automation. Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, and IT to implement preventive guardrails, dashboards, self-service evidence, and measurable improvements in audit readiness and risk reduction.

Lead end-to-end execution of a 12+ initiative product security program, managing cross-team dependencies, vendor procurement, BAU security operations, and executive reporting. Maintain roadmap and tracking in Jira/Confluence, drive procurement/POCs, produce executive-ready metrics, and establish program cadence to ensure timely remediation and predictable delivery.

Designs and executes application security practices across product and platform engineering teams. Responsibilities include integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, secret, IaC, API, mobile, container, and cloud-native security into CI/CD; conducting secure design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and testing; building automation, guardrails, policy-as-code, release risk gates, secure coding standards, SBOM processes, and vulnerability disclosure workflows.

Leads Ferguson’s enterprise Security Engineering function, including vulnerability management, DevSecOps, penetration testing, application and cloud security, endpoint and email protection, edge security, configuration management, and security tooling. Builds and develops technical teams, establishes roadmaps and metrics, prioritizes risk-based remediation, oversees vendors and service operations, and communicates security posture and investment needs to executives and technology partners.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture for AI, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Designs secure AI architectures, cloud foundational controls, zero-trust identity models, API and data protections, and secure LLM, RAG, agent, and MCP integrations. Establishes governance, reusable security patterns, model-usage procedures, compliance controls, and audit readiness across AWS and Azure. Advises executives and technical teams, mentors security professionals, and drives secure cloud migrations while addressing AI/ML risks such as adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, bias, and data leakage.

Participate in a paid, part-time cybersecurity internship involving technical development, security response, collaborative projects, shadowing, vendor training, and certifications. Complete in-house training while working with cybersecurity experts. Interns must be U.S.-based, available primarily during weekday EST hours, attend mandatory Tampa onboarding, provide a personal computer and reliable internet, and demonstrate foundational IT, networking, operating systems, and information security knowledge.

Lead Coinbase's global IT and security audit program, delivering complex cross-functional audits across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, IAM, data protection, and third-party risk. Manage and develop a global audit team, partner with first- and second-line stakeholders to drive integrated assurance, and report executive-level findings to senior leadership and the Audit Committee. Modernize audit execution through data analytics, automation, and generative AI to enable continuous monitoring and automated evidence retrieval.

The CISO will develop and manage the Bank's information security programs, ensuring compliance and protecting customer data while mitigating risks. They will also lead a security team, oversee third-party risk, and promote a culture of security awareness across the organization.

Own day-to-day cybersecurity, identity and access hygiene, compliance readiness, and infrastructure security across a multi-site healthcare environment. Administer Microsoft security tools, MFA, Conditional Access, SIEM, email protection, patching, backups, firewalls, and network controls. Lead SOC 2 evidence collection, security reporting, remediation tracking, third-party access reviews, and audit preparation. Direct and verify outsourced IT and offshore resources, enforce SLAs, supervise network work, and communicate risks to nontechnical leaders.

Develop and lead Gainsight’s information security strategy, policies, and procedures. Manage security leadership, architecture, identity management, compliance, risk assessments, vulnerability testing, and threat mitigation. Ensure adherence to GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and related standards. Present security posture, metrics, and recommendations to executive leadership while collaborating with Engineering, IT, and Security teams in a SaaS environment.

Implements, supports, and optimizes SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include log onboarding, parsing, normalization, detection rule development and tuning, data quality validation, troubleshooting, automation, architecture review support, documentation, and continuous improvement. The engineer works in a client-facing consulting environment under senior guidance and supports multiple security operations platforms and environments.

Maintain and improve cybersecurity across Azure Cloud and on-premises environments. Monitor and tune security alerts, manage vulnerability scanning and remediation, conduct threat intelligence analysis, support incident response, perform risk assessments and threat modeling, and implement security controls and configurations. The role also supports regulatory compliance, security documentation, cross-functional initiatives, and on-call response to security alerts.

Perform hands-on security operations and compliance support using Microsoft security tools. Configure endpoint and identity controls, investigate and remediate incidents, manage vulnerability remediation, and support audits and certification efforts (CMMC, SOC 2, ITAR, ISO 27001). Produce security metrics and maintain secure configuration baselines in hybrid environments.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

The Product Security Engineer partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture and security reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation planning, security-tool ownership, automation, secure coding guidance, incident response, and assessing risks in cloud and AI-enabled products. The role requires strong application security, identity, authentication, authorization, coding, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Lead strategy to define, measure, and evolve Solution Engineer and Cloud Solution Architect excellence for Microsoft Security. Use data, AI-powered analytics, and customer insights to identify performance drivers, design capability strategies, advise senior leaders, and drive field transformation. Build governance, risk remediation, and scalable enablement programs while partnering across engineering, product, sales, and enablement to measure impact and continuously improve outcomes.

Serves as the endpoint security subject-matter expert for support, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success. Diagnoses complex Windows and macOS endpoint issues, analyzes telemetry and logs, troubleshoots integrations with EDR, DLP, and MDM products, and provides prioritized customer recommendations. Partners with Engineering and QA on defect investigation and validation, maintains lab capabilities, and creates runbooks and documentation. The role also enables field teams to explain endpoint findings and improve customer outcomes.