Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Designs, deploys, and operates IAM controls across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The role secures human, service, workload, and AI-agent identities through authentication, authorization, least privilege, lifecycle automation, policy guardrails, monitoring, and incident response. Responsibilities include implementing IAM integrations, access reviews, threat modeling, security automation, and reliable on-call operations while partnering with infrastructure, platform, and incident response teams.

Design, deploy, and operate security controls for Dropbox’s AI and agentic infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, data stores, and on-premise systems. Secure authentication, authorization, networking, AI tools, and non-human workloads while addressing prompt injection, poisoning, supply-chain, and MCP risks. Lead security initiatives, harden infrastructure, automate policy and security operations, and collaborate cross-functionally to protect customer data. Participate in on-call rotations as required.

Own and improve Octus’s enterprise security technology across endpoints, identity, SaaS, email, DLP, AI tools, cloud, and applications. Responsibilities include managing security platforms, hardening systems, tuning SIEM detections, responding to incidents, driving remediation, supporting audits and client reviews, assessing vendor risk, automating workflows, and mentoring teammates. The role requires broad hands-on cybersecurity expertise across Mac and Windows environments, identity platforms, secure web gateways, DLP, compliance frameworks, scripting, and REST APIs.

Build and operate central security systems, automation, tooling, and controls across cloud infrastructure, identity, access, products, partners, and vendors. Develop AI-assisted security workflows, lead external assessments through verified remediation, identify and validate vulnerabilities, guide engineering teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires production security engineering experience, strong programming skills, cloud security expertise, and fintech, payments, or crypto experience.

Design, build, and operate secure LLM platforms, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows for security analytics and threat detection. Develop AI security controls, monitoring models, governance frameworks, and adversarial testing protocols. Protect AI systems against prompt injection, unauthorized access, model drift, and adversarial abuse while integrating automation into security operations. Requires Python, enterprise LLM platform, cloud-native security, and AI threat-modeling expertise.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, improve monitoring and incident response, redirect technical strategy, translate complex security objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through rigorous code and design reviews.

Develops and validates product security solutions for embedded computing systems. Responsibilities include implementing cybersecurity features, applying RMF and A&A processes, defining security requirements, assessing risks and vulnerabilities, evaluating remediation costs, coordinating with engineering and program teams, and ensuring compliance with DoD and government security standards. Requires 25% travel, minimal direction, and an active U.S. TS/SCI clearance.

Own internal offensive security assessments across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems. Plan and execute penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities safely, review source code, and partner with engineering teams through remediation and retesting. Build automated security testing tools and workflows, lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security capabilities, support third-party testing, improve detection and incident response, and participate in on-call responsibilities.

Develops and maintains spacecraft security architecture, translates system security requirements into component controls, assesses cybersecurity compliance, conducts threat analysis, and supports RMF, A&A, and ATO activities. The role collaborates with systems, hardware, software, and program teams; contributes to acquisition and protection documentation; identifies cyber risks; recommends mitigations; and promotes secure-by-design engineering practices.

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.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and improves enterprise cybersecurity infrastructure across network, application, cloud, and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include operating firewalls and defensive platforms, managing SASE/ZTNA and SD-WAN implementations, conducting vulnerability and threat analysis, supporting incident response, maintaining secure baselines, automating operational tasks, integrating intrusion detection telemetry, collaborating with SOC and network teams, and contributing to security architecture and roadmap decisions.

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.

Designs, implements, and operationalizes AI security and GenAI data protection controls across enterprise AI usage. Engineers AI Gateway policies, detection logic, monitoring, coaching, redaction, quarantine, and blocking capabilities. Integrates telemetry with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, identity, and data protection platforms. Assesses risks involving AI agents, MCP, APIs, non-human identities, and third-party integrations while improving control effectiveness, documenting standards, supporting audits, and partnering with technical and business teams.

Implements, migrates, supports, and provides design assistance for enterprise network security solutions. The role serves as a technical SME for firewall platforms, performs network assessments, executes complex firewall and SD-WAN migrations, troubleshoots hybrid environments, develops technical documentation, and leads client-facing technical discussions. It also provides mentorship, knowledge transfer, and project collaboration across on-premises and cloud networking environments.

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.

Design and implement infrastructure security for AWS, Kubernetes, identity, networks, workloads, and CI/CD. Build agentic security tooling, lead detection and incident response, enforce least privilege, conduct architecture reviews, automate vulnerability and compliance monitoring, and guide teams toward secure designs. The role also investigates cloud security events, hardens infrastructure, creates audit evidence, and communicates technical risks to non-technical partners.

Administer, configure, troubleshoot, deploy, and sustain enterprise endpoint-security capabilities, primarily using Elastic Defend. Manage policies, agents, alerting, logging, reporting, documentation, vulnerability and compliance support, and cybersecurity tool integrations. Collaborate with cyber, systems engineering, infrastructure, and mission teams while supporting Elastic engineering projects, modernization, technical documentation, and mission-critical Department of War cybersecurity operations.

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.

Lead the design and implementation of Aalyria’s security platform, including identity, authentication, authorization, PKI, workload identity, secrets, key management, audit evidence, and security standards. Build systems that operate securely in commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Set technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, threat-model distributed systems, and operate production services through upgrades, maintenance, and incidents.

Build and operate secure, reliable Azure GPU infrastructure for distributed AI training and reinforcement-learning workloads. Develop fleet-level automation, infrastructure-as-code, remediation, drift detection, and deployment tooling. Troubleshoot multi-node, multi-GPU, networking, performance, and reliability issues while translating ambiguous research needs into production solutions. Partner with engineers, researchers, and stakeholders on architecture, security, and delivery decisions, and contribute through code reviews, technical collaboration, and mentoring.

Leads technical pre-sales and consulting engagements for Microsoft security, compliance, cloud, and AI solutions. Develops customer and competitive strategies, designs architectures, leads demonstrations and proofs of concept, resolves technical blockers, enables partners, and influences customer decision-makers. Provides thought leadership, training, mentoring, and technical community leadership across XDR, zero trust, cloud security, Microsoft Purview, data protection, governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Leads enterprise AI security and GenAI data protection, owning the AI Gateway from evaluation through deployment and operations. Designs monitoring, coaching, redaction, quarantine, and blocking controls for prompts, uploads, browser traffic, copilots, agents, and integrations. Integrates telemetry with security and identity platforms, establishes governance and exception processes, measures control effectiveness, and supports audit and regulatory readiness while enabling responsible AI adoption.

Provides technical leadership for cybersecurity engineering on AWACS aircraft and ground-system modernization programs. Responsibilities include secure network and communications architecture, RMF compliance, ATO/IATT and POA&M development, cyber risk assessments, avionics and mission-system integration, TEMPEST compliance, security requirements, and design reviews. The role supervises personnel and collaborates with systems, software, avionics, and test engineering teams. Active Secret clearance and significant military aviation cybersecurity experience are required, with 25–35% domestic and international travel.