Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads cloud security engagements across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Designs security architecture and controls, conducts risk assessments and vulnerability testing, manages monitoring and incident response, tracks remediation, and develops technical deliverables. The manager coaches team members, oversees project quality and timelines, addresses stakeholder issues, and identifies opportunities to improve cloud security through automation and emerging technologies.

Architects and manages enterprise security engineering, threat detection, vulnerability assessment, security hardening, incident response, and security policies across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. The role monitors security logs, supports compliance, advises on vendors and implementations, integrates security into the development lifecycle, and participates in on-call and change management activities.

Owns Cleo’s application and product security strategy across SaaS and customer-hosted products. Responsibilities include maturing the SSDLC, threat modeling, security scanning, vulnerability triage, penetration testing, coordinated disclosure, CVE management, product security controls, customer-facing advisories, and NIST CSF evidence. The role also leads security enablement, roadmap prioritization, AI security reviews, and hands-on exploit reproduction and patch validation while guiding engineers and security partners.

Lead cybersecurity risk and compliance engagements, develop and implement compliance strategies, oversee audits, advise on AML/financial-crime controls, coach teams, validate client outcomes, and promote compliance culture across organizations.

Lead Toast’s product and platform security organization, overseeing security platform engineering, application and cloud security, secure development practices, offensive security, vulnerability management, hardware security, and developer enablement. Partner with product and engineering leaders to establish secure defaults and scalable guardrails while reducing developer friction. Manage and grow a multi-team security engineering organization, expand security champions and tooling adoption, and align security posture with business and product priorities.

Manages a product and application security team, develops secure coding programs, integrates security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, analyzes vulnerabilities, supports incident response, conducts threat modeling and security assessments, and mentors engineering teams on secure software development and cloud security practices.

Own security risk identification, quantification, prioritization, and remediation across third-party risk, assessments, and security findings. Maintain risk registers, reporting, metrics, and remediation tracking while partnering with technical and business stakeholders. Lead AI risk management for ISO 42001 certification and build automation, scripting, and AI-enabled tools to improve GRC workflows. Monitor emerging risks, frameworks, regulations, and threat trends, communicating business-relevant risk insights to leadership.

Leads Enterprise Security services, setting and enforcing security standards across identity, endpoints, business applications, cloud infrastructure, networking, IoT, and automation. Partners with IT, SOC, vulnerability management, governance, and threat operations teams to secure applications, monitor environments, manage EDR policies, remediate vulnerabilities, assess risks, and maintain compliance. Also drives AI security initiatives and uses AI tools to improve enterprise security capabilities and team efficiency.

Lead OT security monitoring and triage operations, investigate suspicious activity across industrial networks, tune detections, manage vulnerabilities and asset classification, and escalate findings to incident responders and threat hunters. Produce customer-facing reports, support platform operations, mentor analysts, and collaborate across cybersecurity teams. The role requires shift-based coverage, remote coordination, and expertise in network security with a strong interest in ICS/OT environments.

Designs and implements security measures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Conducts risk assessments, vulnerability testing, audits, forensic investigations, and incident response. Collaborates with cloud service providers, develops security architectures and frameworks, monitors for breaches, manages cloud resources, and supports compliance. The role also involves client relationship management, solving complex cybersecurity challenges, and advancing cloud security strategies.

Provides proactive technical account management for strategic cybersecurity customers. Responsibilities include customer onboarding, platform training, health checks, issue resolution, escalation management, success planning, knowledge-base development, renewal-risk mitigation, and expansion support. The role serves as a customer advocate while collaborating with support, engineering, and sales teams. Candidates need cloud, application infrastructure, security, incident response, forensics, networking, and cloud architecture expertise, along with strong communication and customer-success skills.

Partners with Sales to advise enterprise customers on cybersecurity, identity, asset visibility, exposure management, and risk solutions. Leads technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-value and proof-of-concept engagements, customer validation, training, and executive presentations. Translates technical capabilities into business outcomes while supporting complex sales cycles and collaborating with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Support. Travel is typically 25–50%.

Lead cryptographic security assessments of protocols, libraries, applications, and high-assurance systems. Analyze advanced cryptographic constructions, identify design and implementation weaknesses, validate exploitability, and recommend remediation. Build testing and analysis tools, manage client delivery, write precise technical reports, mentor engineers, contribute to methodologies and services, and support open-source research and technical publications.

Leads cybersecurity threat intelligence and vulnerability management initiatives, analyzing threats, deploying intrusion detection and network security platforms, and developing proactive defenses. Manages client projects, including planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery, while mentoring teams and resolving stakeholder issues. Partners with leadership to maintain quality and timelines, conducts security research, and promotes innovation across cybersecurity practices.

Leads teams designing and deploying AI-driven enterprise and cloud security solutions. Responsibilities include developing machine learning systems, integrating data infrastructure and pipelines, performing advanced modeling and analysis, and building AI applications with Python, Java, and C++. The role involves client engagement, strategic problem-solving, stakeholder validation, coaching, process innovation, and operational excellence while addressing complex cybersecurity and privacy challenges.

Consult on Oracle application security and compliance: analyze client requirements, implement security controls, perform compliance audits, develop policies, guide regulatory adherence, train and manage junior staff, and help clients mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.

Lead design and implementation of cloud, container, and application security across CSPs (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Manage client relationships and teams, apply DevSecOps practices, perform risk assessments and vulnerability testing, configure policy frameworks (CNAPP), and provide secure coding/cloud security training and mentorship to drive secure delivery and continuous improvement.

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

Build and lead a scalable application security and secure SDLC program across engineering teams. Establish policies, standards, tooling, vulnerability management, threat modeling, developer enablement, security champions, software supply-chain controls, and executive reporting. Partner with development, platform, DevOps, product, and leadership teams to integrate security into CI/CD, source control, build, release, and deployment workflows while supporting audits, advisories, incident response, and regulatory requirements.

Partner with sales teams to win strategic data security opportunities. Present technical solutions, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations, configure solutions, and design evaluation test plans. The role requires extensive pre-sales experience, security and networking expertise, data protection and web technology knowledge, and collaboration across matrixed go-to-market and partner teams.

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.

Build and lead Motive’s globally distributed SOC, owning detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, intelligence, security analytics, endpoint protection, cloud and workload monitoring, and AI-driven automation. Establish operating models, coverage strategies, runbooks, telemetry platforms, incident command processes, and measurable detection and response capabilities across corporate and production environments.

Leads enterprise data security and information governance by building data intake, catalog, marketplace, classification, lineage, and access-control programs. Translates privacy and security requirements into technical controls, self-service workflows, and governance documentation. Partners with Legal, InfoSec, engineering, product, and data teams to support compliant data use, AI/ML initiatives, and regulatory requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Measures adoption, turnaround times, and governance maturity across a global SaaS organization.

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, and communicate findings to technical, executive, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Build investigation scripts, runbooks, automated workflows, and security operations capabilities. Mentor engineers and support insider threat initiatives while collaborating across teams on cloud security and incident response.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.