Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Boston, MA

Build backend services and distributed systems for a cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform. Develop scalable APIs, data pipelines, and platform components handling vulnerability, container, package, runtime, and SBOM data. Work across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments while solving concurrency, performance, reliability, and distributed processing challenges. Own projects from design through deployment, participate in architecture discussions, review code, and collaborate with security researchers and product teams.

Secure federal health IT supply-chain and logistics software by designing and validating application and infrastructure controls, assessing vulnerabilities, driving remediation, embedding security checks into CI/CD pipelines, monitoring security tools, supporting incident response, and translating federal security requirements into implementable technical designs.

The Senior Security Engineering Manager oversees security policy compliance, manages incident response, tracks threats, and coordinates investigations, ensuring operational stability.

Designs and engineers secure data solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The role conducts security architecture assessments, vulnerability analyses, risk assessments, and gap analyses; develops mitigation strategies; and advises teams on data governance, encryption, identity and access management, application security, cloud security, and secure data exchange. Responsibilities also include evaluating security technologies, implementing protective controls, supporting compliance, and mentoring team members.

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.

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.

Leads an engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating data security products and controls. Provides technical direction, hands-on engineering leadership, and delivery ownership across DLP policy, data discovery and classification, data access controls, policy-as-code workflows, automation, integrations, testing, deployment, reliability, and operational support. Translates data security requirements into scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and driving adoption of secure engineering practices.

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.

Design and build real-time security detection engines and streaming analytics using Apache Flink and Kafka. Develop high-performance security APIs and microservices in Go and Node.js, architect Kubernetes-based security solutions, and build petabyte-scale data pipelines. Lead technical design, collaborate with security teams, and mentor junior engineers.

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.

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.

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 software security for Cisco’s IT and Enterprise Operations portfolio. The role owns security posture, threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, AI and LLM security, risk-based remediation, security metrics, and release risk reporting. It partners with engineering, product, and IT leadership to drive security outcomes without direct authority, coordinate security subject-matter experts, and reduce security debt across cloud-native applications and enterprise platforms.

Oversee the security of firm applications, networks, systems, hardware, and mobile devices throughout their lifecycles. Develop security requirements and architecture, manage controls and configurations, perform certification and accreditation, maintain asset inventories, and ensure secure development and acquisition practices. Collaborate across departments and mentor team members while serving as a primary technical security contact. The role requires independent judgment, strong analytical ability, knowledge of security frameworks and technologies, and at least seven years of related experience.

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.

Manage and lead engineering teams building endpoint security software: define and execute roadmaps, oversee SDLC and ISMS compliance, remove blockers, drive secure coding, coordinate with product and architects, recruit and develop staff, and manage budgets and operations.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Leads information security architecture and program initiatives across IT and business projects. Provides security consulting, develops enterprise data, network, and application protection requirements, conducts threat analysis, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and remediation planning. Researches emerging threats and technologies, supports control testing and incident response, and guides security team members. Requires extensive information security leadership, application and network security expertise, secure architecture knowledge, and strong communication skills.

Lead global deployment of Qnity’s OT cybersecurity program across manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include securing ICS and PCN networks, implementing segmentation, remote access, monitoring, asset management, backup, EDR/XDR, and MFA solutions; developing cybersecurity standards, audits, and disaster recovery plans; reviewing automation and capital projects; conducting risk assessments and incident investigations; and mentoring site engineering teams.

Designs and implements secure cloud architectures, IL5 controls, STIG-aligned hardening baselines, identity integrations, and cybersecurity controls for federal and DoD-aligned platforms. Performs security assessments, vulnerability analysis, continuous monitoring, secure deployment reviews, audit support, and remediation planning. Requires expertise in AWS, NIST, RMF, PKI, SIEM, and cloud security, along with mentoring junior engineers and documenting technical architectures. The role is fully remote but requires an active Top Secret clearance and substantial security engineering experience.

The Senior IT Security Engineer strengthens cybersecurity across architecture reviews, AI and emerging technology assessments, IAM governance, vulnerability management, third-party risk, security assurance, incident response, phishing simulations, automation, and regulatory compliance. The role validates security controls, supports remediation, develops risk metrics and reporting, oversees identity platforms, and partners with technology, business, audit, compliance, procurement, and vendors in a regulated banking environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and operation of information security controls across systems, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include SIEM/MDR, EDR/XDR, SOAR, vulnerability management, PAM, Zero Trust, incident response, data protection, DLP, and cloud security. The role collaborates with IT, Privacy, Compliance, and application teams, mentors engineers, supports security architecture and SDLC practices, and may provide periodic on-call incident response support.

Build Ent’s endpoint data-protection layer for classifying sensitive data, tracing provenance, and enforcing egress policies across devices, applications, networks, removable media, browsers, and AI tools. Develop cross-platform interception and content inspection capabilities, integrate on-device language models, optimize performance, produce forensic evidence, investigate compatibility issues, and improve detection precision for enterprise customers.

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

Protect the firm from web-based threats by designing, implementing, and maintaining web filtering proxies, secure web gateways, and cloud proxy platforms. Develop security policies for web filtering, SSL inspection, DLP, and threat prevention; translate regulatory requirements into technical controls; automate policy management and integrate security tools with SIEM, SOAR, and identity platforms. Support incident response, secure business use cases, scalability, Zero Trust alignment, and leadership reporting on risks and program maturity.