Top Cyber Security Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Lead and grow a product research team focused on defensive cybersecurity research. Own technical and managerial leadership, collaborate with Product, SOC, and Engineering, scale automated threat-detection workflows using AI, and mentor researchers to deliver prioritized platform capabilities.

Design and build custom security tools, middleware, and automations to integrate Identity, MDM, EDR, SIEM, and SaaS platforms. Implement API-driven data flows, UIs, CI/CD pipelines, SOAR playbooks, and secure deployment practices. Collaborate with Security Ops, IT, and Engineering to translate policies into automated, secure solutions.

Lead the Application Security Practice, overseeing team performance and business growth while delivering high-quality security consulting services and fostering innovation through AI integration and research contributions.

Lead Zeta’s AI-native Application Security function by defining strategy, building the team, embedding security agents and policy-as-code into IDEs, pull requests, CI/CD, and AI/ML pipelines, and overseeing continuous threat modeling and validation. Own security for AI systems, models, prompts, and agents, including adversarial testing for prompt injection, model abuse, and data leakage. Mentor engineers and promote automated, secure software development practices.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Manages global 24/7 Security Operations Center operations, including processes, playbooks, shift coverage, quality assurance, analyst development, incident response capabilities, and operational performance. Leads cybersecurity analysts, partners with Product and Support teams, reports on objectives and key results, operationalizes new services, and represents the organization in public speaking engagements.

Lead the development of SailPoint’s cybersecurity architecture practice. Create holistic and reference architectures, define security domains, develop strategic roadmaps, identify security gaps, and translate architectural concepts into viable engineering solutions. Partner with leadership to prioritize initiatives, secure funding, and operationalize the practice. The role also includes hands-on security projects, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, and mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, application, identity, and network security.

Lead Zapiers security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform. Own App and Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, GRC, risk management, incident response, bug bounty triage, and enterprise security enablement. Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and GTM to embed secure-by-default design, shape AI-specific controls, support enterprise deals, and build a high-performing security engineering organization.

Assess and harden software supply chain security by performing technical assessments, designing and implementing security controls and monitoring for build pipelines, investigating systems for vulnerabilities, creating tooling to address gaps, and leading cross-team projects to improve CrowdStrike's product security posture.

Conduct advanced OSINT and operational tradecraft to collect, track, and report on hacktivist and state-sponsored threat actor activity across South Asia, Latin America, and North Africa. Produce contextual internal reports, collaborate on analytical products, and employ secure methods to support threat intelligence operations.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Serve as a senior embedded cybersecurity consultant across the customer lifecycle: secure technical wins in pre-sales, run POVs, advise C-level and technical stakeholders, design cyber skills programs and crisis simulations, drive platform adoption and roadmaps, operationalize Immersive One with metrics and EBRs, and act as the customer liaison to sales, product, and engineering to improve cyber workforce resilience.

The AI Security Consultant will enhance security programs, secure AI systems, engage in technical analysis, and report findings. They will also contribute to thought leadership while ensuring high-quality service delivery.

As a Security Architect, you will build secure agent runtimes and systems, ensuring robust security capabilities in agentic AI solutions while conducting security evaluations.

Leads enterprise application security through secure code reviews, threat modeling, architecture assessments, CI/CD security controls, secure coding standards, API protections, WAF tuning, and software supply chain security. Partners with engineering, DevOps, platform, and SRE teams to remediate risks, automate controls, secure AI-enabled applications, and improve organization-wide security practices. Serves as a principal technical advisor and mentor while defining scalable guardrails, playbooks, metrics, and reference architectures.

Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication.

Deliver generative AI-enabled source code review and application security engagements. Coordinate with leadership, organize resources, refine and present assessment findings, document recommendations, and mentor junior red team members. Support penetration testing projects, including external and web application testing, while managing engagement delivery and improving security assessment technologies and workflows.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain, open-source dependencies, GitHub organizations, repositories, and source-code environments. Assess risks, implement repository guardrails and secret scanning, investigate malicious packages and dependency threats, automate security checks, and guide engineering teams on secure coding and open-source compliance. The role also contributes to cross-team security initiatives, CI/CD and cloud security integrations, monitoring, and AI-enabled vulnerability triage.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

As a Security Engineer, you will conduct security assessments, develop security tools, perform architecture reviews, and collaborate on advanced security research.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.