Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Build and operate infrastructure security platforms centered on workload identity, service-to-service authentication, authorization, and short-lived credentials. Replace static secrets with identity-based systems, develop identity-authenticated proxies and APIs, and unify authorization policy management. Partner with platform and application teams to drive adoption, migrate legacy systems, and ensure reliable production infrastructure with strong developer experience.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP authorization and continuous monitoring. Reviews cloud service provider architectures, security controls, authorization packages, assessment reports, vulnerabilities, and compliance documentation against NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, advises government program leads and CISOs on risk posture, and supports secure, compliant, resilient system design.

Owns broad product and operational security responsibilities, including identity and access management, threat modeling, code review, fuzzing, bug bounty operations, AI security research, software supply chain monitoring, penetration test coordination, and compliance evidence. The role requires a strong software engineering background, product security expertise, security tooling development, systems programming experience, and familiarity with web3 or DeFi. It is remote-first and emphasizes autonomy, documentation, and high ownership.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Own the technical win for cybersecurity sales by leading discovery, security architecture, demonstrations, proof-of-concept engagements, workshops, and pilots. Design ransomware-recovery, immutable vaulting, identity-resilience, and DSPM solutions; communicate architectures and business cases to technical and executive audiences; support partner co-selling, account planning, roadmap feedback, and technical deal qualification.

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.

Develop and improve enterprise security controls, investigate security alerts and incidents, tune detections, automate security processes, assess hybrid infrastructure and cloud configurations, and partner with infrastructure and application teams. The role independently owns security initiatives from problem identification through implementation, documentation, operation, and continuous improvement.

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.

Leads cryptographic engineering for secure space and ground communications systems. Responsibilities include crypto unit trade studies, hardware and firmware integration, interface definition, testing, verification, key management, lifecycle management, requirements traceability, and compliance with cybersecurity and NSA standards. The role supports PKMA, represents crypto engineering in technical reviews, collaborates with government and industry partners, and mentors junior engineers. The position is on-site in El Segundo, California, or Colorado Springs, Colorado, with approximately monthly travel.

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.

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.

Leads cryptographic engineering for space and ground satellite communications systems supporting the U.S. Space Force. Responsibilities include crypto unit trade studies, technical design, hardware and firmware integration, testing and verification, secure key management, requirements traceability, lifecycle management, and compliance with cybersecurity standards. The role interfaces with government and industry partners, contributes to design reviews, mentors engineers, and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with extensive systems engineering and cryptography experience.

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.

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.

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.