Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in NYC, NY

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Microsoft's AI Safety Platform, building observability, detection, investigation, threat-hunting, and distributed data-processing capabilities. Design attack detection infrastructure, correlate high-volume telemetry, apply AI security research, conduct security and privacy reviews, and partner across engineering, science, and incident response teams. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex AI security systems.

Develops secure, isolated attack scenarios across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Reproduces vulnerabilities, builds multi-step attack chains, creates automated graders and reward signals, and validates outcomes using system state and telemetry. The role also develops attack variants and benign comparisons to evaluate AI security agents, partnering with threat researchers, AI engineers, and environment engineers.

Designs and maintains security controls for blockchain, digital asset, application, cloud, and infrastructure environments. Responsibilities include threat modeling, cryptographic key management, application and API security, AWS and Kubernetes hardening, vulnerability management, monitoring, incident response, penetration testing, and security governance. The engineer collaborates with Cybersecurity, Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to secure distributed systems and support regulatory requirements.

The Information Systems Security Engineer will secure a USPS information system modernization project by implementing federal security controls, conducting vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, maintaining SSP, RMP, and POA&M documentation, monitoring cloud security tools, supporting incident response, and delivering security training. The role requires collaboration with development, operations, and federal security stakeholders while ensuring compliance with FISMA, NIST RMF, and FedRAMP standards.

Provides technical pre-sales leadership for data security solutions, including demos, proofs of concept, architecture workshops, and secure cloud or hybrid deployments. Advises customers on data security posture, Microsoft Purview, AI application security, and scalable architectures. Builds developer and platform-lead relationships, resolves technical blockers, develops technical win strategies, and collaborates with product engineering. Represents Microsoft in customer and developer communities.

Leads the design and implementation of security solutions for AI systems across data ingestion, model training, deployment, and runtime. Develops controls against prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, data leakage, and unauthorized access. Secures cloud infrastructure, APIs, identities, integrations, and third-party AI platforms; implements monitoring, automated security testing, and incident response. Partners with architecture, engineering, and governance teams to ensure resilient, compliant AI security practices.

Executes end-to-end red team and adversary emulation operations across cloud, identity, network, endpoint, hardware, and operational environments. Develops offensive tooling, implants, and evasion tradecraft; operates and improves AI-driven security agents; discovers and exploits vulnerabilities; and communicates findings to customers and internal security teams. The role also contributes to operational playbooks, product hardening, detection improvements, and scalable offensive security practices.

Own and implement Sandbar’s backend security, including encryption, key management, confidential computing, identity, secrets, supply-chain security, incident response, compliance, and data-handling controls. Build features in Python real-time services, conduct threat modeling and design reviews, and guide secure engineering practices. The role requires deep cloud security, applied cryptography, production incident response, and backend ownership, with confidential computing and mobile or device security experience preferred.

Assesses and mitigates security risks across applications, systems, networks, and cloud infrastructure. Conducts security assessments, identifies vulnerabilities and compromises, deploys mitigating controls, performs compliance investigations, and develops security guidance, policies, scripts, and tools. The role requires collaboration with IT, engineering, and business units, with emphasis on NIST frameworks, adversarial techniques, malware, intrusion management, FedRAMP, and CMMC environments.

Leads regional enterprise security sales by serving as a cloud security expert, shaping opportunities, advising account teams, managing executive relationships, and orchestrating technical teams and partners. Conducts architecture reviews, demos, proof-of-concepts, pilots, ROI/TCO analyses, and consultative engagements to promote Microsoft security solutions, Zero Trust adoption, and customer business outcomes.

Lead product, cloud, application, infrastructure, and internal security across Hipp’s healthcare SaaS platform. Responsibilities include architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, cloud and identity security, monitoring, incident response, AI-agent security, compliance controls, vendor risk, customer security reviews, and security mentorship.

Build ngrok’s foundational security engineering program, including security tooling, CI/CD guardrails, secrets scanning, vulnerability tracking, cloud security, risk assessments, AI security policies, detection capabilities, and incident response. Partner with engineering and leadership to establish security controls, automation, metrics, and reusable internal security platforms.

Lead the architecture, security, and operation of Maestro’s multi-tenant AI platform on private GKE. Responsibilities include Kubernetes runtime isolation, identity and credential security, service mesh trust, Terraform infrastructure, fleet scaling, CI/CD, observability, auditability, human approval workflows, and governed agent integrations. The role also sets technical direction, mentors engineers, and partners across Product, Security, and Leadership to deliver secure, reliable distributed systems at scale.

Own and improve security across cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, corporate IT, endpoints, identity, email, and business applications. Build detection and response capabilities, secure containers and software supply chains, implement identity and access controls, manage vulnerabilities and secrets, and automate security guardrails. Investigate threats across cloud, identity, and endpoint telemetry while protecting sensitive customer data and supporting compliance controls.

Build and operate enterprise AI infrastructure for security teams, including model gateways, agent workflows, retrieval systems, evaluation, observability, and security guardrails. Drive adoption across detection, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, GRC, and security engineering. Develop production AI applications, establish governance and standards, measure impact, teach teams, and lead technical change through influence as a senior individual contributor.

Designs and reviews secure architectures for cloud, applications, data, APIs, identity systems, AI/ML implementations, and third-party integrations. Leads threat modeling, security standards, reference architectures, risk assessments, and compliance alignment across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Protects traveler and payment data, defines AI and identity security guardrails, supports vendor due diligence, and advises engineering, product, and executive stakeholders on practical risk mitigation.

Owns the security posture and architecture of Akamai’s globally distributed AI inference platform. Leads threat modeling, security standards, design reviews, cloud-native and application security, multi-tenant isolation, compliance readiness, incident response, and defenses against AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, model extraction, data poisoning, and adversarial attacks.

Plans and executes full-scope red team and adversary emulation operations, including phishing, C2, privilege escalation, lateral movement, EDR/XDR evasion, Active Directory and cloud compromise, and social-engineering scenarios. Develops custom offensive tooling, collaborates with Blue Teams to validate detections, documents attack chains, and provides remediation guidance. Requires 5+ years of offensive security experience, advanced scripting skills, and recognized offensive security certifications, with bug bounty or CTF achievements preferred.

Lead cybersecurity consulting and engineering engagements securing OT and IT environments for water, wastewater, and environmental infrastructure clients. Conduct ICS, SCADA, network, architecture, risk, and compliance assessments; design secure IT/OT architectures; develop governance, incident response, security plans, and improvement roadmaps; evaluate security technologies; and support proposals and client presentations. Mentor junior staff and advise on cloud, IoT, AI, and critical infrastructure security.

Designs and operates security controls for AI/ML systems, including threat detection, incident response, cloud and application security, model governance, adversarial testing, and security automation. Builds production tooling across AI platforms such as SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, and Databricks; applies MITRE ATLAS, OWASP AI Top 10, and NIST AI RMF frameworks; and integrates enterprise security platforms to protect models, data, pipelines, and AI applications.

Secure and harden AWS and GCP infrastructure, manage vulnerabilities, implement compliance controls, maintain audit evidence, improve Kubernetes and CI/CD security, support reliability and incident response, and develop automation for security and infrastructure workflows. The role also contributes to application security, code reviews, production troubleshooting, detection, and FedRAMP readiness.

Leads enterprise security engineering across tools, cloud environments, identity, vulnerability management, incident response, compliance, and security operations. Oversees SIEM, endpoint, email, privileged access, and network security technologies; coordinates investigations, assessments, remediation, and managed security providers. Leads a three-person security team, mentors staff, improves workflows through automation, and communicates technical risks to leadership and clinical stakeholders.

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 identity and access management implementations for federal and enterprise customers. Responsibilities include IAM solution design, architecture, deployment, integration, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, customer workshops, and knowledge transfer. The consultant provides technical leadership, advises stakeholders on authentication and identity governance, collaborates across project teams, and mentors junior consultants. The role requires extensive IAM consulting experience, strong security technology knowledge, active Top Secret clearance with full-scope polygraph, and customer-facing technical leadership.

Own infrastructure security for LiveKit’s production platform. Map cloud security posture, prioritize and remediate infrastructure risks, harden IAM, secrets, networks, tenant isolation, and media storage, and build secure infrastructure-as-code guardrails. Partner with compliance teams on PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 controls and automate audit evidence. The role requires cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, scripting, and production infrastructure security experience, with AI security and real-time media experience preferred.