Top Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Supports sales teams and partners in technical sales activities for cloud security products. Responsibilities include understanding customer requirements, integrating solutions, delivering technical presentations and demonstrations, managing product evaluations, responding to RFPs and RFIs, supporting partner development, discussing cloud architectures, resolving technical obstacles, and training sales and partner teams on product and business value.

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Lead research to detect Windows threats and develop sensor/telemetry capabilities. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to implement detections, investigate false positives/negatives, apply AI to research workflows, produce technical documentation, and mentor others while promoting the company externally.

Monitors and triages security alerts, investigates and documents incidents, supports identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, security awareness, phishing simulations, incident response, and security control checks. Collaborates with IT teams and an MSSP to resolve security issues, tune security tools, maintain documentation, and escalate threats. Requires availability for identity and access management, incident response, and escalation outside standard business hours.

Leads the enterprise cybersecurity program, including strategy, governance, risk management, compliance, security architecture, incident response, vulnerability management, vendor risk, and audit readiness. Oversees Microsoft security environments, ISO 27001 certification readiness, HITRUST and HIPAA compliance, security policies, remediation, and organizational awareness. Reports cybersecurity posture to executives, manages security teams and programs, and coordinates with IT, business stakeholders, auditors, regulators, and vendors.

Lead customer security strategy and architecture using Microsoft security products. Assess security posture, design cloud-native solutions, remove technical blockers, author customer insights, and support complex enterprise deployments to accelerate adoption and secure cloud/hybrid environments.

Leads cloud security architecture and implementation, focusing on data privacy, GDPR compliance, Kubernetes security, mTLS, RBAC, zero-trust networking, audit logging, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessments. Collaborates across teams, mentors junior engineers, documents security practices, monitors industry trends, and drives resilient, compliant cloud infrastructure.

Leads Carina’s cloud infrastructure, internal IT, cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, and business continuity programs. Oversees AWS platform operations, infrastructure as code, deployment reliability, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, employee technology, identity systems, vendors, budgets, and governance. Advises executives on technology strategy, security posture, operational risk, and investments while partnering with Engineering and Data to provide a secure, reliable technology foundation.

Provides cybersecurity and RMF support for DoD systems and applications, including security control assessments, ATO package development, vulnerability remediation, audit and compliance activities, executive reporting, and software certification. Serves as a cybersecurity subject matter expert, leads ISSOs, coordinates with senior government and contractor stakeholders, and supports classified and unclassified environments. Travel is required approximately 25% of the time.

Build Ent’s endpoint data-protection layer for classifying sensitive data, tracing provenance, and enforcing egress policies across devices, applications, networks, removable media, browsers, and AI tools. Develop cross-platform interception and content inspection capabilities, integrate on-device language models, optimize performance, produce forensic evidence, investigate compatibility issues, and improve detection precision for enterprise customers.

Deliver cybersecurity assessments, architecture reviews, maturity evaluations, security roadmaps, and implementation guidance for enterprise clients. Assess on-premises, cloud, hybrid, identity, OT, and ICS environments; identify risks and security gaps; produce reports; and present recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. Support incident response and post-incident improvements, collaborate with engagement managers and specialists, contribute to consulting methodologies, and stay current on threats and security best practices. Travel is approximately 20%.

Lead cybersecurity risk strategy for frontier AI auditing. Design secure audit systems and privacy-enhancing technologies, evaluate AI-related cybersecurity risks, develop code and data tools, and strengthen internal IT infrastructure. Responsibilities include access controls, data protection, device management, incident response readiness, and communicating threat models, cryptography, and risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own and iterate security usage metrics and executive reporting using semantic models and telemetry. Lead data-quality investigations, field escalations, governance for compensable metrics, and cross-org alignment with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Compensation. Produce dashboards, enablement content, ad-hoc analyses, and host reviews to drive adoption and data-driven decisions.

Partner with sales leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to drive billed revenue growth for Microsoft 365 E5. Monitor revenue performance, improve pipeline health, perform root-cause analysis, generate data-driven insights, and translate strategy into execution plans. Lead governance, cadence, and operational improvements to scale best practices and accelerate sales execution across regions.

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

Develop low-level firmware for secure enclaves in custom ASICs supporting secure boot, attestation, root of trust, provisioning, secure updates, recovery, telemetry, tamper monitoring, and debugging. Collaborate with ASIC, hardware, security, software, and systems teams on interfaces and requirements. Support pre-silicon validation, FPGA and simulation development, silicon bring-up, production deployment, testing, code reviews, and documentation.

Lead architecture and scaling of an automated, AI-driven vulnerability detection and remediation platform across cloud, containers, and applications. Correlate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, implement AI-assisted triage, run red/purple team validation, and build automated remediation pipelines integrated into CI/CD for continuous compliance and risk reduction.

Partner with engineering, compliance, and security teams to embed application security into the SDLC: triage static/SCA alerts, advise on OWASP Top 10 remediation, maintain developer playbooks and training, track security metrics and evidence for audits, and help shape AI governance and GenAI-safe workflows.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise IAM solutions across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments. The role drives Zero Trust modernization, identity automation, access governance, privileged access controls, threat monitoring, and automated response. Responsibilities include evaluating security technologies, mitigating identity risks, supporting compliance and audit readiness, and establishing security standards. The engineer collaborates with infrastructure, application, and security teams and participates in rotational on-call, weekend, and holiday support.

Leads exposure management and vulnerability management across cloud, hybrid, SaaS, applications, APIs, certificates, domains, and shadow IT. Identifies, validates, prioritizes, and reports vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, leaked data, and other cybersecurity risks. Designs and implements security solutions, supports remediation and penetration testing, integrates threat intelligence, advises on security architecture, and mentors team members. Requires advanced cybersecurity expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and knowledge of security frameworks and technologies.

Own and evolve the application security program: embed secure SDLC practices, partner with engineering on design and code reviews, manage AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/ASM/WAF/mobile), harden AWS deployments, integrate security into CI/CD, and lead vulnerability investigation and remediation efforts.

Lead global technical skilling strategy for Microsoft Security Solution Engineers: define capability frameworks, analyze field and performance data to identify gaps, design scalable AI-enabled learning and assessment, advise senior leaders, partner across product/engineering/enablement, drive adoption and measure impact, and build high-performing risk and capability practices.

Lead security across applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; run secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture discussions; build automation and tooling to prevent issues; harden authentication and access control; investigate incidents and manage disclosures; partner with engineering teams to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments.

Lead a U.S.-based team of Security Operations Engineers and TPMs to design, build, and operationalize identity protections that reduce lateral-movement risk. Define strategy, apply AI and automation, partner with engineering and platform teams, deliver scalable controls, and drive measurable security outcomes, operational readiness, and executive reporting.

Administers Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security configuration, access reviews, governance, audit support, and remediation. Evaluates routine and elevated access requests, enforces least-privilege standards, analyzes security and audit trends, maintains governance documentation, and recommends policy and process improvements. Collaborates with HR, IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders while protecting confidential employee data.