Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Wilmington, NC

The Application Security Architect leads secure design and architecture reviews, threat modeling, source-code reviews, and security initiatives across application, cloud, infrastructure, and identity layers. The role develops security architectures and documentation, mentors security and engineering teams, supports AI-assisted product security workflows, and advances security awareness through the Security Champions program. Responsibilities include communicating risks to technical and executive audiences and embedding secure practices throughout software development and deployment.

Lead product security assessments and penetration testing across MongoDB products and cloud environments. Conduct threat modeling, code analysis, architecture reviews, vulnerability verification, and attack research. Use AI and automation to improve assessment workflows, collaborate with engineering teams on remediation and secure coding, and advise on container security and secrets management. Coordinate with red and detection teams while mentoring others and communicating findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Build GitLab code security capabilities spanning dependency analysis, SBOM and lockfile parsing, vulnerability detection, AI-assisted analyzers, and automated dependency remediation. Design evaluation harnesses, package analyzers for CI and AI workflows, improve security report accuracy, and extend ecosystem coverage. Own initiatives from design through delivery, mentor engineers, collaborate across product and engineering teams, document systems, and participate in on-call support.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

Lead Runpod’s security organization and own the security posture of its cloud platform, infrastructure, and corporate environments. Responsibilities include security strategy, cloud and application security, SecOps, GRC, compliance certifications, secure software development, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, vendor risk, security automation, and infrastructure security. Build and mentor a distributed security team while partnering with Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, GTM, and Legal to protect customer AI workloads and support scalable growth.

Serve as an embedded security partner to business, product, data, and technology teams. Assess architectures, conduct threat reviews, develop secure-by-design patterns, guide SaaS and vendor selection, and translate security requirements into practical controls. Support identity, infrastructure, AI workflows, data strategy, M&A integrations, and automated guardrails while enabling teams through training and collaboration.

Provides security architecture and enablement across SaaS platforms, APIs, custom applications, data integrations, cloud environments, and AI workflows. Partners with product, engineering, data, architecture, identity, infrastructure, enterprise, and procurement teams to conduct threat reviews, develop secure-by-design patterns, assess vendors, implement guardrails, and manage risks. Translates security requirements into practical solutions, supports enterprise data strategy and M&A integration, and mentors teams as a trusted security advisor.

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.

Secure Runpod’s multitenant GPU cloud infrastructure across bare-metal and virtualized environments. Responsibilities include designing workload and network isolation, hardening Linux kernels and container platforms, testing hypervisor and hardware security, developing low-level controls in C, Go, or Rust, securing GPU and PCIe interactions, and responding to infrastructure security incidents with forensic capabilities for ephemeral containers.

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.

Own Deepgram’s privacy operations, security compliance, audit evidence, control mapping, security questionnaires, policies, and public trust documentation. Lead DPIAs, data-flow mapping, DSAR and deletion workflows, vendor reviews, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits. Partner with Engineering, Legal, Research, and Sales Engineering to verify technical claims, automate evidence collection, maintain accurate documentation, and translate privacy and AI regulations into practical requirements and enablement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leads technical security engagements involving presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design, and production-ready pilots. Designs and proves Microsoft and third-party cloud security, compliance, privacy, XDR, zero trust, and data protection solutions. Collaborates with sales, consulting, and partner teams, resolves technical and competitive blockers, influences strategy, and guides customer implementations. The role requires strong technical pre-sales or consulting experience and expertise in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.

Lead application security across the SDLC, partnering with engineering teams on secure architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and cloud services. Conduct manual web application and API testing, improve automated CI/CD security controls, establish secure coding standards, assess third-party risks, support vulnerability management and incident response, and ensure healthcare compliance. The role also develops enterprise-wide security policies and evaluates emerging security technologies.

Own application security across cloud services, APIs, data pipelines, and edge-deployed applications. Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, code reviews, vulnerability assessments, and remediation. Build CI/CD security tooling, automation, and secure-by-default developer frameworks while maturing the SDLC, supply-chain security, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty processes. Partner with engineering and security operations, provide incident expertise, and deliver developer security training.