Top Entry Level Cyber Security Jobs in NYC, NY

Develop and modernize secure authentication, authorization, identity management, and configuration infrastructure using Java, Go, or Python. Lead architecture decisions for cloud-native migrations, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, evaluate security technologies, and drive cross-team initiatives. Serve as a technical authority for security infrastructure while contributing to documentation, open source, and security posture improvements.

Leads technical pre-sales architecture for complex security solutions serving public-sector and commercial customers. Translates business, security, compliance, and technical requirements into solution designs, bills of materials, statements of work, estimates, pricing, assessments, and deployment plans. Conducts discovery sessions, architecture workshops, solution reviews, and customer presentations while partnering with sales, delivery teams, and security vendors. Mentors architects and sellers, supports regional customer activity, and travels throughout the Southeast as needed.

Build secure systems for AI development, including AI-assisted code review, least-privilege cloud access, secure agent environments, protections for agent tool calls and command execution, and safeguards against inappropriate data logging. The role requires strong software engineering skills, security expertise, vulnerability anticipation, secure-by-default thinking, and end-to-end ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Own company-wide infrastructure security, establish the security roadmap, and implement controls across cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, autonomous agents, software delivery, supply chain, and employee devices. Build monitoring, detection, incident response, threat modeling, and architecture review practices while partnering with engineering, research, and compliance teams to manage risk and maintain practical, auditable controls.

Establishes a security engineering practice, develops production Go code, and secures cloud and container infrastructure across multiple providers. Responsibilities include access controls, network defenses, credential handling, workload isolation, audit logging, application security, and secure coding. The engineer also builds security capabilities for external users and advises client technical teams on platform security requirements.

Design and implement security across infrastructure, applications, data, and AI systems. Own authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, secure log ingestion and querying, and AI security risk mitigation. Lead security incident response and postmortems, establish practical security practices, and partner with engineering to integrate security into development. The role requires application or infrastructure security experience, knowledge of OWASP vulnerabilities, and experience securing distributed systems and APIs.

Build and maintain software for public-sector customers while strengthening FSH’s security and compliance posture. The role involves adapting penetration testing and software auditing practices, collaborating with auditors and security vendors, establishing validation frameworks, and automating compliance processes across customized applications. Engineers also gather customer feedback, iterate quickly, and help define engineering culture.

Design and analyze network security and technology solutions while collecting data, documenting requirements, estimating work, and running projects. The role requires knowledge of cloud platforms, application technologies, databases, GIS and location-based systems, SaaS tools, and railroad operations. Responsibilities include supporting customer-facing applications, preparing technical scopes and software requirements, and collaborating independently with strong planning and communication skills.

Serves as a security subject matter expert supporting sales teams and customers. The role assesses security environments, facilitates incident response and investigations, demonstrates Varonis capabilities, supports threat detection evaluations, develops technical enablement materials, communicates product updates, and gathers customer feedback for product improvement. Strong expertise in cloud and self-hosted network security, Microsoft security ecosystems, identity management, SIEM, SOAR, and threat detection is required.

Analyze, debug, and secure diverse codebases; implement features; refactor legacy software; conduct audits and penetration tests; optimize backend performance; and document findings to improve AI training datasets.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, guide security monitoring and incident response, translate complex objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through code and design reviews.

Lead engineering for enterprise network security platforms, including firewall infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible automation, APIs, and scripting. Troubleshoot complex network, cloud, and security issues; establish engineering standards; improve reliability and scalability; manage platform upgrades and vulnerability remediation; and provide technical leadership across engineering, networking, application, cloud, and security teams.

Secure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, data pipelines, identity systems, secrets, CI/CD workflows, and software supply chains. Implement Terraform guardrails, encryption, network segmentation, IAM controls, observability, threat modeling, incident response, red-team exercises, tabletop drills, penetration testing, and compliance controls for creator and AI training data.

Support enterprise security sales by identifying customer requirements, demonstrating Datadog security solutions, providing technical expertise during evaluations and proof-of-value initiatives, and developing proposals and sales materials. The role partners with sales, product, and engineering teams, tracks security trends and vulnerabilities, influences product development, and represents Datadog at industry events. Travel up to 30% is required.

Own and strengthen security across systems, networks, and infrastructure. Design firewalls and IDS/IPS capabilities, conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments, detect and respond to threats, establish organization-wide security practices, collaborate with engineering and operations, and support customer security questionnaires and technical requirements.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.

Designs and implements security controls across cloud platforms, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audits infrastructure for weaknesses, develops security and privacy improvements, performs threat modeling, and drives remediation. The role includes software development, infrastructure security, incident containment, and technical security analysis while collaborating with engineering teams in a distributed startup environment.