Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Perform offensive security research and engineering for Windows: discover vulnerabilities, develop PoC mitigations and tools (fuzzers/agents), conduct code and design reviews, partner with product teams, and engage external researchers to improve OS security.

Build security tooling and customer-facing transparency systems; oversee SBOM, vulnerability management, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty programs. Assess vulnerability severity and exploitability, publish security advisories and CVE records, coordinate disclosures, answer customer security inquiries, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, customers, partners, and security researchers. Apply AI to security workflows and use software engineering and automation practices to improve security processes.

Lead Prelim’s security program across secure SDLC, application and cloud security, IAM, incident response, endpoint management, vendor risk, security reviews, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Partner with DevOps and engineering, coordinate penetration testing, develop policies and risk roadmaps, manage audits and customer questionnaires, and improve detection and access controls. The role is the company’s first dedicated security hire and requires strong judgment, communication, and hands-on technical skills.

Leads security analysis, compliance oversight, risk management, vulnerability assessments, remediation planning, audits, and Authority to Operate activities for a federal CMS program. Reviews architectures and technical designs, integrates security into Agile development, maintains security documentation and metrics, monitors regulatory updates, and advises engineering, operations, and program stakeholders. Develops security policies, supports FISMA and CMS assessments, and delivers security awareness training.

Design and implement automated cloud security controls across multi-cloud environments. Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, harden infrastructure and IaC, manage IAM and secrets, advance container and workload security, protect AI/ML systems and data, and support monitoring, detection, and incident response for cloud applications.

Enhance Azure infrastructure and security by building secure CI/CD pipelines, deploying cloud applications, monitoring vulnerabilities with Wiz, and implementing security controls. The role manages infrastructure as code, container security, identity and access management, compliance, audits, threat assessments, monitoring, and incident response across cloud environments.

Owns company-wide security across product, infrastructure, corporate systems, and IT. Responsibilities include fixing authentication and authorization issues, managing keys and secrets, hardening internal tools, improving permissions, contributing to backend engineering, and leading security reviews, incident response, and security tooling. This hands-on role requires broad security expertise, strong software engineering ability, and comfort working in an ambiguous early-stage startup environment.

Conducts threat-driven security testing of client-facing web applications, including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, and fraud-control validation. Assesses risk, assigns severity, develops practical remediation guidance, and partners with defensive and business teams to improve detection and response. Provides written assessments, supports enterprise security initiatives, and mentors junior security professionals.

Manage security operations and lead a security engineering team defending endpoints, SaaS, infrastructure, and corporate systems. Serve as senior Incident Commander, oversee detection and response using CrowdStrike, conduct cybersecurity risk assessments, and improve vulnerability, patch, access, and configuration management. Build detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and cloud signals while partnering with AppSec and technical leaders. Lead the company’s AI security strategy and develop specialized security capabilities.

Build and operate automated security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic-material lifecycles, security telemetry, compliance automation, policy-as-code, threat modeling, and CI/CD security controls. Develop agentic AI workflows using tools such as Claude Code and MCP integrations. Support incident response, review security architecture, automate evidence collection, and partner with engineering, audit, risk, vendors, and clients to improve security posture at scale.

Build and operate reliable security infrastructure across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and log analytics, OpenSearch, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and EKS security, cross-account cloud infrastructure, Python automation, AI-assisted engineering workflows, compliance evidence collection, incident support, and on-call operations. The role partners with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams to automate manual processes and improve platform resilience.

Lead cybersecurity governance, risk assessments, compliance, and Authorization to Operate efforts for applications, products, and cloud environments. Identify vulnerabilities, manage POA&Ms, assess security controls, support continuous monitoring, coordinate audits, and ensure compliance with federal cybersecurity mandates and RMF requirements. Collaborate with stakeholders and security engineering teams across IAM, SaaS, enterprise IT, and cloud platforms, while leading multidisciplinary efforts in federal environments.

Executes and helps define the information security strategy by leading risk assessments, audits, control testing, policy development, business continuity planning, vendor risk reviews, incident response, and remediation tracking. The role aligns security programs with CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 frameworks, maintains risk and compliance reporting, and mentors junior security staff while partnering with global business and IT leaders.

Lead enterprise AI security architecture, strategy, governance, and secure-by-design implementation across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, software, and AI/ML environments. Design security patterns for LLM hosting, agentic systems, vector databases, and inference endpoints; translate regulatory requirements into technical standards; review complex architectures; implement AI security guardrails and policy enforcement; advise engineering and product teams; and mentor teams while influencing senior stakeholders.

Lead and develop the Security team while owning the company-wide security and compliance program. Responsibilities include managing SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, audits, policies, vendor risk, security awareness, and customer security communications. The role also provides technical direction for security tooling, cloud security, identity and access management, application security, vulnerability management, architecture reviews, and threat modeling.

Leads enterprise data protection initiatives, including data classification, DLP policy management, eDiscovery support, insider threat investigations, and data governance. Uses behavioral analytics, audit logs, SIEM, UEBA, and forensic tools to identify misuse and leakage. Develops security controls, incident response playbooks, and compliance updates while collaborating with Legal, HR, and Compliance. Participates in threat-hunting and red, blue, and purple team exercises. Requires five-plus years of relevant experience and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

Lead product security initiatives for cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security architecture reviews, identifying systemic weaknesses, developing secure-by-design guidance and reference architectures, advising engineering and product leaders, leveraging AI and automation for scalable security assessments, investigating emerging attack paths, mentoring teams, and improving security review methodologies and tooling.

Leads and develops an engineering team building and operating cloud security controls as software products. Provides technical direction through architecture, design, and code reviews; owns production reliability and continuous improvement; translates security risks into automated, scalable solutions; and coordinates roadmaps and dependencies with product, platform, application, and security teams. The role also drives agile delivery, secure engineering practices, mentoring, and adoption of reusable cloud security patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Lead end-to-end Application Security product and program: set strategy, prioritize roadmap, ship AI-powered threat modeling and code-evaluation surfaces, enable secure-by-design SDLC, enforce CI/CD gates, drive vulnerability prioritization/remediation, establish governance and metrics, and align security initiatives with engineering and executive stakeholders.

Lead complex cloud, identity, supply-chain, and nation-state security investigations. Perform root-cause analysis, threat hunting, blast-radius assessment, attribution, and incident response across Microsoft telemetry. Operationalize intelligence into queries, detections, playbooks, and platform fixes; investigate adversary tradecraft; use AI-assisted tooling; produce executive-ready reports; and mentor peers in advanced investigations, forensics, and reverse engineering.

The Information Security Analyst will manage security operations, penetration testing, antivirus and SIEM tools, security assessments, AI-system risk evaluations, business continuity improvements, and compliance frameworks including SOC 2, NIST, and CJIS. The role also delivers security training, evaluates vendors, responds to security questionnaires and RFPs, and partners with IT, engineering, sales, and product teams. U.S. citizenship and FBI fingerprint and background checks are required.

Lead corporate security investigations and incident response across identity, endpoints, SaaS, email, and security platforms. Improve detection, response, Zero Trust controls, automation, and incident readiness. Conduct vendor security assessments, support customer security questionnaires, document risk decisions, and collaborate with Security, IT, Engineering, Legal, GRC, Procurement, Sales, and Customer Success teams.

Owns IT systems administration and security operations for a fully remote workforce. Responsibilities include managing Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, endpoint and identity platforms, security tools, access controls, threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, vendor relationships, reporting, and operational roadmaps.

Build and operate cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, GovCloud, and secondary platforms. Responsibilities include IAM, encryption, secrets management, preventive and detective controls, PHI protection, logging pipelines, Terraform and CI/CD automation, remediation, application and vendor design reviews, and audit evidence for HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and internal assessments.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.