Top Cyber Security Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads product and platform security for Federal Reserve Financial Services, overseeing security architecture, secure development lifecycles, threat modeling, DevSecOps, security testing, risk management, and cloud security. Advises product, engineering, architecture, and executive stakeholders; establishes security standards and reference architectures; evaluates security technologies; and leads, mentors, and develops the security team. The role also represents security interests across Federal Reserve System forums and requires occasional travel and national security clearance eligibility.

Secures Snyk’s GCP and AWS cloud platforms through threat modeling, IAM hardening, Kubernetes and container security, Terraform and pipeline fixes, CSPM integration, and secure configuration baselines. Uses AI coding agents and MCP integrations to scale infrastructure remediation while reviewing changes for unsafe defaults, excessive permissions, and agent-related risks. Works consultatively with platform teams to implement and measure security improvements.

Designs and automates application, cloud, infrastructure, and AI security controls across CI/CD pipelines and public-cloud environments. Conducts penetration testing, red teaming, source-code audits, and cloud exploitation. Leads incident containment, forensic collection, threat detection engineering, and SIEM automation. Partners with software engineering and SRE teams on secure architecture, Zero Trust, container security, and Infrastructure-as-Code scanning while mentoring junior engineers and aligning controls with financial-sector compliance standards.

Owns enterprise AI security assessment, architecture, and control programs. The role evaluates AI systems, vendors, platforms, and shadow AI; designs secure architectures, guardrails, identity models, sandboxes, gateways, and runtime controls; and develops detection and response capabilities for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and tool misuse. The engineer partners with governance, identity, platform, engineering, and security operations teams, advises senior leaders, drives remediation, and mentors security professionals.

Own and scale Jellyfish’s security engineering program, including strategy, architecture, secure SDLC governance, AI security, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, incident response, penetration testing, and bug bounty programs. The role combines hands-on software development with executive advising, cross-functional leadership, mentorship, and security risk management across SaaS infrastructure and customer-facing AI products.

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.

Partners with Sales to advise enterprise customers on cybersecurity, identity, access, asset visibility, exposure management, and risk solutions. Leads discovery, solution design, technical demonstrations, proof-of-value and proof-of-concept engagements, customer validation, executive discussions, documentation, and technical training. Requires strong cybersecurity and enterprise networking expertise, customer-facing presales experience, and the ability to connect technical capabilities with business outcomes. Travel is typically 25–50%.

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.

Designs and delivers enterprise security solutions, including micro-segmentation and security platform deployments. Leads product installation, integration, configuration, optimization, and automation across diverse customer environments. Provides advanced professional services, customer training, and post-sales support while coordinating with cross-functional teams. The role requires expertise in web and API security, bot mitigation, DNS, SIEM integrations, DDoS protection, observability, CI/CD security, compliance standards, and AI application security.

Provides cybersecurity consulting for customers using the Akamai platform. Responsibilities include network integration, security architecture reviews, cloud security strategy, threat modeling, risk assessment, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, API security, security testing, and implementation of cloud and container solutions. The consultant collaborates with account teams, evaluates web architectures, develops long-term security strategies, and contributes to training, best practices, and service quality improvements.

Lead enterprise network segmentation projects using Guardicore Micro Segmentation across data center and cloud environments. Responsibilities include architecture design, project planning, installation, integration, configuration, policy deployment, documentation, customization, training, optimization, and troubleshooting. The role partners with customers, Support, and Engineering teams to deliver successful implementations and improve post-sales satisfaction.

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.

Leads security engineering strategy across application security, cloud security, penetration testing, security operations, and incident response. Defines roadmaps, integrates automated controls into engineering and cloud environments, approves complex IAM and Zero Trust decisions, directs offensive testing and detection engineering, and leads critical incident escalations. Mentors engineers, influences executives, supports hiring and resourcing, and aligns security controls with PCI-DSS, SOC, and DORA requirements.

Maintains corporate information security and cloud system protections by evaluating monitoring outputs, assessing risks and vulnerabilities, implementing access and remediation controls, designing secure configurations, supporting incident response, and coordinating with IT, security, and application teams. The role also advises on risk acceptance, regulatory standards, confidentiality, and secure system design.

Designs and implements security for embedded consumer electronics products, including ARM TrustZone applets, cryptographic device identity, secure boot, firmware protection, key management, and trust chains. Defines security requirements, performs assessments and testing, supports compliance audits, mitigates vulnerabilities, and advises engineering teams through architecture and code reviews. Collaborates with firmware, DevOps, cloud, manufacturing, and program management teams to strengthen product security and incident response.

Supports enterprise cybersecurity through security configuration, identity and access management, vulnerability management, cloud security, audits, penetration testing, risk analysis, security monitoring, and remediation coordination. The role diagnoses escalated security issues, maintains dashboards and metrics, supports compliance initiatives, collaborates with technical and business teams, and mentors Help Desk Analysts. Responsibilities span Azure, AWS, on-premises infrastructure, applications, and enterprise security systems.

Provides cybersecurity consulting and professional services for enterprise Cisco customers. Designs, documents, implements, automates, troubleshoots, and supports Cisco security solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. Leads customer engagements, technical workshops, training, project delivery, and engineering teams while advising on firewall, VPN, SASE, zero trust, and network security architectures. Builds trusted customer relationships, identifies future opportunities, and contributes to proposals and statements of work.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

Architects and deploys cybersecurity infrastructure centered on Splunk and Palo Alto solutions. Integrates SIEM, SOAR, EDR, network visibility, firewalls, and ticketing platforms; supports log management, intrusion detection, network forensics, secure access, and compliance with NIST and FedRAMP. Troubleshoots infrastructure incidents, provides escalation support, communicates technical designs to customers, and mentors junior team members.

The Senior Security Engineer architects, implements, and supports enterprise security capabilities across vulnerability management, cloud security, identity, endpoint, application security, and security architecture. The role leads security initiatives, resolves complex platform issues, develops automation and AI-assisted workflows, establishes documentation and reporting standards, and mentors security engineers and analysts while partnering across infrastructure, application, network, cloud, and security teams.

Designs and operates controlled cyber-capability evaluations for frontier AI models and agentic systems. Builds vulnerable applications, cyber ranges, exploit-development targets, and evaluation harnesses; runs experiments; collects telemetry; analyzes model behavior and evaluation artifacts; and documents security findings. The role also develops sandboxing, containment, access, and secrets-management controls while collaborating with red-team operators, researchers, engineers, and Responsible AI stakeholders.

Designs, deploys, troubleshoots, and supports enterprise network and security infrastructure, including routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, cloud networking, VPNs, and data center services. The role analyzes operational incidents, implements remediation, maintains documentation, communicates with management, supports roadmap decisions, and participates in on-call rotations. It requires extensive experience with multi-vendor network security technologies, cloud platforms, and customer-facing technical work.

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.