Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Boston, MA

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%.

Leads enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and modernization across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, Azure connectivity, microsegmentation, Zero Trust, SASE, and SD-WAN solutions. Serves as a Level 3 incident escalation point, drives root-cause analysis and resilience improvements, establishes automation and DevSecOps standards, and mentors engineers. Partners with stakeholders and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network security platforms.

Build and operate security infrastructure for MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing cloud security controls, workload identity, vulnerability management, Infrastructure-as-Code, runtime threat detection, and monitoring systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through deployment and long-term production reliability.

Build and operate security infrastructure protecting MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing Kubernetes security controls, managing CSPM and workload identity platforms, deploying security controls through Terraform and other IaC tools, and creating monitoring and alerting systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, rollout, and ongoing production reliability.

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.

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.

Lead product cybersecurity for connected heart-recovery medical devices across development and post-market lifecycles. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, risk assessments, cryptographic controls, secure boot, firmware protection, PKI, vulnerability management, penetration testing, SBOM analysis, secure OTA updates, regulatory submissions, and remediation planning. The role partners with R&D and cross-functional teams to implement secure development practices, embedded protections, cloud and device security, and compliance with medical-device cybersecurity standards.

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 advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.

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.

Build and operate security controls, telemetry, detections, and enforcement for NVIDIA’s large-scale EDA compute, storage, and networking infrastructure across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Investigate threats, respond to incidents, automate secure configurations and compliance evidence, threat-model infrastructure, and manage security technology lifecycles. The role requires hands-on Linux, networking, programming, infrastructure security, and collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.

Implements and operates data security controls across cloud analytics platforms, databases, data lakes, storage, and pipelines. Responsibilities include encryption, key and secrets management, least-privilege access, data classification, masking, tokenization, database hardening, secure integrations, entitlement reviews, automation, telemetry, compliance evidence, threat modeling, documentation, and technical support. The role collaborates with security, data, governance, engineering, and IT teams while working remotely.

Design and guide security architecture for NVIDIA networking firmware and embedded subsystems. Responsibilities include threat modeling, analyzing firmware and hardware interactions, defining lifecycle security features, translating threats into requirements, partnering with hardware architects, and driving secure firmware development practices such as memory-safe C, static analysis, and fuzzing. The role requires expertise in firmware security, authorization models, cryptography, secure boot, attestation, and embedded systems.

Owns and strengthens the security posture of cloud-based SaaS and Microsoft 365 environments. Responsibilities include vulnerability management, incident response, cloud and endpoint hardening, identity and data protection, secure configuration, monitoring, compliance evidence, customer security reviews, and risk management aligned with HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST, and related frameworks.

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 architecture and implementation of Microsoft Red Team visibility, telemetry, monitoring, detection, alerting, deconfliction, and operational security capabilities. Designs scalable services and data pipelines, maintains authoritative operational asset inventories, identifies systemic security gaps, and drives durable engineering solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, debugging, incident response, mentorship, and cross-organizational influence while enabling authentic Red Team operations with strong defensive visibility and control.

Engineer and maintain enterprise network security platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design firewall and network security solutions, troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues, and automate infrastructure operations using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. Support platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integrations, validation processes, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with network, cloud, application, and security teams.

Build and scale platform security through architecture reviews, threat modeling, IaC hardening, IAM improvements, Kubernetes security, and disaster recovery exercises. Develop automation for detection, response, compliance, onboarding, access anomaly detection, and self-service security posture checks. Investigate incidents, track root-cause remediation, support SOC 2 evidence collection, and collaborate closely with software engineers on secure development and incident response.

Conduct penetration tests across infrastructure, networks, web and mobile applications, and cloud environments. Perform application and cloud security testing, simulate adversary techniques, develop custom security tools, document vulnerabilities, validate remediation, and support HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance. Collaborate with engineering and product teams, track emerging threats, and contribute to purple-team exercises, tabletop events, and security training.

Lead enterprise security architecture across cloud, application, infrastructure, identity, data, and third-party environments. Develop security principles, standards, patterns, and controls; review designs; conduct threat modeling and risk assessments; guide secure-by-design implementations; and advise technical and business stakeholders. The role also supports regulatory compliance, evaluates security technologies, and strengthens organizational security practices.

Design and ship product security improvements covering authentication, authorization, session and token handling, secrets management, third-party access, abuse detection, fraud prevention, and account takeover defense. Threat-model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, build secure developer tooling, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Trust & Safety. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development while balancing security controls with user experience.

Build and automate security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic material lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, policy-as-code, compliance monitoring, and incident-response tooling. Develop agentic AI workflows using coding assistants, MCP integrations, and custom harnesses. Apply threat modeling and secure architecture review while partnering with engineering, risk, auditors, vendors, and clients. The role emphasizes production software, cloud-native automation, continuous control monitoring, and eliminating manual security toil.

Build and operate a reliable security platform across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and OpenSearch infrastructure, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and AWS security controls, cross-account and multi-region architecture, Python automation, and agentic AI workflows. The role participates in on-call support, security incident enablement, audit evidence automation, and reliability improvements while collaborating with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams.

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 the technical presales process for Proofpoint’s data security and insider risk solutions. Partner with sales teams, conduct technical discovery, design security architectures, and manage proof-of-concept and production evaluations. Present solutions to customers, support deployments and training, collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product Management, and Support, and provide customer insights to improve products. The role also develops internal documentation, training, and repeatable sales engineering processes.