Top Cyber Security Jobs in Wilmington, NC

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.

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.

Leads Forward’s application and product security program, including a team of senior engineers, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure SDLC practices, and AI security. Owns testing standards, remediation workflows, exposure controls, pre-production security reviews, and security services. Partners with Engineering and executives to communicate risk and priorities while securing web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-built software.

Secure LLMs, generative AI systems, ML infrastructure, training pipelines, and AI applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture reviews, security controls, hardening, vulnerability remediation, data privacy, incident response runbooks, vendor reviews, governance, policy development, and AI security training. The role also supports proof-of-concept security solutions and monitors emerging AI threats.

Lead application security engineering across the SDLC using AI-assisted threat modeling, automated security testing, vulnerability prioritization, and secure-by-default controls. Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and AI platform teams to secure applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, and AI/ML systems. Build security automation, CI/CD controls, policy-as-code guardrails, developer enablement, and proactive defenses against emerging threats such as prompt injection and data poisoning.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security engineering, designing scalable cloud platforms and secure AI applications. Responsibilities include protecting models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs; securing the AI/ML lifecycle; implementing identity, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, and incident response; and establishing engineering standards. The role mentors engineers, influences architecture and technology strategy, and partners with governance, risk, compliance, and business teams to support responsible AI adoption.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise browser data protection and security. Owns architecture, roadmap, standards, lifecycle, browser-based DLP controls, integrations, automation, and operational support. Leads complex troubleshooting, major incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook development, and continuous improvement. Partners across cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, risk, compliance, and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise security design.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security strategy, building secure cloud-native platforms and protecting AI models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs. Designs controls for identity, access, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, governance, and incident response. Provides distinguished technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and partners across architecture, security, governance, risk, compliance, and business teams.

Own AWS cloud security posture and vulnerability management using Wiz and AWS-native services. Build Infrastructure as Code guardrails, secure CI/CD pipelines, automate vulnerability workflows, and operate WAF protections. Partner with DevOps and engineering on IAM, network segmentation, containers, secrets, data exposure, telemetry, threat modeling, and application security. Drive projects independently while reducing organizational risk.

Staff Security Engineer partners with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to embed security into application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD processes. Responsibilities include secure design and code review, vulnerability remediation, AWS cloud security, WAF tuning, security automation in Python, SIEM and log pipeline contributions, endpoint controls, and security standards. The role requires deep expertise in application security, cloud security, or security automation, plus threat modeling and independent project ownership.

The Cyber Security Analyst SME governs security and compliance across cloud infrastructure and application environments. Responsibilities include maintaining security evidence mappings, enforcing CI/CD pipeline gates, conducting vulnerability assessments, analyzing CND events and logs, developing security policies, managing ATO and compliance activities, and advising engineering and governance teams. The role also supports AWS cloud security, data governance, reporting, risk analysis, incident response, and stakeholder communications.

Provides information assurance and cybersecurity services for DoD applications, including RMF and A&A support, security documentation, vulnerability assessments, POA&M management, STIG compliance, security audits, incident reporting, continuous monitoring, and DevSecOps security integration. The role supports cloud migration, cybersecurity tooling, compliance with DoD and NIST standards, external audits, and implementation of government cybersecurity directives.

Leads KeyBank’s Red Team and offensive security program, including adversary emulation, penetration testing, physical and application assessments, cloud security testing, AI security evaluations, and purple team exercises. Develops testing strategy, methodologies, tooling, metrics, and maturity roadmaps; mentors engineers; coordinates internal and third-party engagements; validates remediation and attack paths; and presents findings and strategic recommendations to executives and cybersecurity stakeholders.

Design and scale security infrastructure across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, endpoints, identity, and secrets management. Build AI governance controls addressing model risk, bias, reliability, and patient safety. Establish secure engineering standards, reusable controls, and golden paths while translating security risks for technical and business stakeholders. Partner with engineering, product, clinical, legal, and executive leaders to prioritize security workstreams and strengthen compliance across a regulated healthcare platform.

Leads application security engineering for enterprise systems, including SAST and DAST scanning, security control implementation, web application protection, and pipeline development. Uses Veracode, Burp tools, Linux, and programming or scripting languages to identify and remediate vulnerabilities. Applies OWASP, CVSS, CWE, federal compliance standards, and secure architecture practices while supporting scalable digital transformation initiatives. Requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports enterprise cybersecurity solutions across IAM, endpoint, network, email, application, cloud, and security awareness domains. Conducts vulnerability assessments, threat hunting, incident investigation, security tool tuning, policy development, and security architecture reviews. Serves as a security subject matter expert on technology projects, collaborates with an MSSP, provides incident escalation support, and maintains availability for critical security operations.

Serve as a fractional CISO advising alternative asset firms and family offices on building, maintaining, and operating full cybersecurity programs. Provide hands-on leadership, risk assessment, policy and controls development, and program execution on project-based engagements.

Provide fractional cybersecurity advisory and hands-on operations for hedge funds and family offices: conduct assessments, run vulnerability management and incident response, implement policies and controls, monitor logs and network traffic, test BCDR plans, advise on vendor selection, and report KPIs and remediation plans.

Conduct application security assessments, identify and validate vulnerabilities, perform dynamic testing and static code reviews, and recommend remediation strategies. The consultant collaborates with development teams, uses tools such as Burp Suite, stays current with application security methodologies, and communicates complex security issues to diverse audiences.

Leads the security investigations function, including insider threat and fraud programs. Builds and manages an investigations team, establishes evidence-handling and case-management standards, oversees complex investigations, partners with Legal, HR, Compliance, and Security Engineering, briefs executives, and drives systemic risk prevention.

Design, build, and operate security platforms including detection pipelines, identity and access systems, secrets and key management, policy-as-code, vulnerability automation, and security guardrails. Lead cross-team security initiatives, improve observability and incident response, embed controls into infrastructure, establish engineering standards, and mentor security engineers. The role requires strong software engineering skills, cloud and Kubernetes experience, security fundamentals, and the ability to influence technical direction across the organization.

Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts, phishing, vulnerabilities, and incidents for managed security clients. Conduct threat hunts, collect evidence, identify root causes, perform containment and remediation, and create incident reports and SOPs. Support deployment of security toolsets, collaborate with analysts and engineers, communicate with clients, and participate in after-hours or on-call coverage.

Administer identity and access security programs, including access reviews, privileged access management, endpoint privilege controls, and Azure PIM. Support compliance audits through evidence collection, triage SIEM and endpoint alerts, manage phishing simulations, document procedures, and track vulnerability remediation. Partner with IT, engineering, and compliance teams to improve security processes and posture in a cloud-native environment.

Own end-to-end security architecture and risk posture for a strategic, AWS-heavy program protecting trade secrets and sensitive intellectual property. Lead cloud and application security reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, control design, and risk acceptance. Develop secure reference architectures, design patterns, standards, and guidance across cloud platforms, data flows, identity, and integrations. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and security direction while communicating risks effectively to technical, business, audit, and executive stakeholders.