<p>We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to join a financial institution in Albuquerque, New Mexico in a contract role with the potential to become permanent. This position focuses on strengthening and advancing the organization’s security environment through hands-on engineering across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and monitoring domains. The ideal candidate brings strong technical judgment, can work independently on complex initiatives, and partners effectively with cross-functional teams to reduce risk and improve resilience.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build and enhance secure technical solutions across endpoint protection, identity platforms, cloud environments, network controls, and security monitoring systems.</p><p>• Drive implementation efforts for security platforms, including deployments, upgrades, and integrations, while ensuring reliable performance and alignment with business needs.</p><p>• Assess technical vulnerabilities and security gaps, then recommend and execute engineering improvements that support compliance and risk management objectives.</p><p>• Work closely with security analysts to improve alerting, logging, and telemetry so threats can be identified and investigated more effectively.</p><p>• Strengthen the overall security posture through automation, hardened configurations, and targeted architecture improvements.</p><p>• Apply industry and regulatory security guidance to infrastructure and solution design within a financial services environment.</p><p>• Lead remediation work stemming from audits, assessments, incidents, or control reviews, ensuring corrective actions are completed thoroughly.</p><p>• Provide technical direction to less experienced team members and contribute expertise to project teams handling security-focused initiatives.</p><p>Other duties as needed </p>
We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to support daily security operations and strengthen the organization’s overall security posture in Charlottesville, Virginia. This Long-term Contract position focuses on monitoring security activity, assisting with investigations, improving operational processes, and contributing to broader cybersecurity initiatives across the environment. The role works closely with IT security leadership and partners across departments to help maintain secure, compliant, and well-documented systems.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Review security alerts, event data, and system logs each day, taking appropriate action or escalating concerns when necessary<br>• Assist with incident response efforts by gathering evidence, performing initial analysis, and recording findings in a clear and organized manner<br>• Carry out routine security administration tasks such as validating user access, examining privileged activity, and checking adherence to established policies<br>• Perform recurring health assessments for firewalls, identity services, logging coverage, endpoint compliance, and vulnerability management controls<br>• Maintain and refine operational documentation, including runbooks, checklists, technical standards, and support procedures<br>• Support cybersecurity projects related to access management, audit logging, data protection, encryption, and remediation planning<br>• Respond to assigned service requests and operational tickets involving security tools, permissions, and configuration-related questions<br>• Coordinate with internal stakeholders across technology and business teams to support remediation efforts, audit preparation, and control tracking
We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to join a healthcare-focused organization in San Antonio, Texas in a contract-to-permanent capacity. This role will help strengthen enterprise security practices by guiding compliance efforts, protecting sensitive data, and advancing risk reduction initiatives across technical and business teams. The position requires someone who can translate security priorities into practical actions, support operational resilience, and promote strong security awareness throughout the organization.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Develop and refine cybersecurity policies, standards, and procedures that support the organization’s risk and governance framework.<br>• Partner with risk, compliance, and internal stakeholders to perform security assessments, support audits, and align controls with applicable regulatory expectations.<br>• Evaluate emerging threats and existing vulnerabilities, determine business impact, and recommend mitigation strategies that reduce organizational risk.<br>• Work closely with infrastructure, application, and technical teams to investigate security findings and drive timely remediation of operational issues.<br>• Track corrective action efforts, prepare status reporting for leadership, and help coordinate ongoing risk reduction activities across the enterprise.<br>• Support continuous enhancement of the cybersecurity program by identifying improvement opportunities and recommending practical security best practices.<br>• Review third-party security controls and participate in vendor risk evaluations for systems and services that store, process, or transmit organizational data.<br>• Oversee identity and access management activities, including access reviews and required periodic audits.<br>• Lead disaster recovery readiness efforts and coordinate business continuity planning with compliance and risk management partners.
We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen a growing cloud security program in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This position will focus on protecting Azure and Microsoft 365 environments through secure design, identity governance, threat detection, and operational improvements. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with cloud platforms, modern security tooling, and cross-functional collaboration to reduce risk and support a resilient technology environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Architect and support secure cloud solutions across Azure and Microsoft 365, ensuring platforms are configured to meet security and operational standards.<br>• Establish and manage identity and access protections by enforcing conditional access, role-based permissions, and zero trust security practices.<br>• Investigate alerts and suspicious activity using enterprise security platforms, then coordinate timely response and remediation efforts.<br>• Evaluate cloud environments for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and drive corrective actions to improve overall security posture.<br>• Build and maintain automation scripts in PowerShell, Python, or similar languages to improve efficiency in security administration and monitoring.<br>• Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to embed security controls into deployment workflows using infrastructure-as-code and pipeline automation tools.<br>• Support adherence to recognized security frameworks and regulatory expectations through policy alignment, control validation, and audit readiness activities.<br>• Troubleshoot complex issues affecting cloud, network, and endpoint security technologies, providing practical solutions across interconnected systems.<br>• Create and update technical documentation covering configurations, procedures, incident findings, and recommended best practices.<br>• Work closely with internal stakeholders on security initiatives, platform enhancements, and ongoing risk reduction projects.
<p>About the Role</p><p>We are seeking a highly skilled Security Software Engineer to join a fast-moving Cloud Security team on a contract engagement. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who thrives in execution-focused environments and can quickly step into in-flight security initiatives to drive them to completion.</p><p>You will take ownership of partially built automation pipelines, reporting systems, and AI-assisted remediation workflows, contributing directly to improving vulnerability management and cloud security posture.</p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Take ownership of existing vulnerability management and cloud security automation initiatives and drive delivery within a contract engagement</li><li>Complete Wiz issue mapping automation, including API-driven correlation scripts, payload enrichment, and ticket routing across systems</li><li>Build and maintain patch reporting dashboards and metrics, including EOL tracking and kernel patching insights</li><li>Contribute to AI-driven remediation workflows, enhancing “Done For You” (D4U) agents and integrations for automated vulnerability resolution</li><li>Support migration of Rapid7 Hosted Console (including backups, credential migration, and rule cleanup)</li><li>Develop and deploy custom security tooling to detect, report, and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities</li><li>Work within existing JIRA backlogs and documentation to ensure seamless continuation of work</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation and function as a Security SRE for vulnerability management tickets</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally and maintain clear technical documentation, including TDDs and status updates</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for an experienced Senior IT Security Engineer to strengthen and advance our security program in Hartford, Connecticut. In this role, you will work closely with technology teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership to reduce risk, improve defensive capabilities, and support secure operations across the enterprise. This position is ideal for a hands-on security specialist who can combine technical depth with sound judgment and clear communication.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Monitor and assess sophisticated cyber threats, translating technical findings into practical recommendations for remediation and risk reduction.<br>• Guide security efforts by tracking changes in the threat landscape and identifying emerging risks that could affect enterprise systems and data.<br>• Partner with both technical teams and leadership to explain security concerns, prioritize actions, and support informed decision-making.<br>• Administer and enhance core security services such as vulnerability management, firewall controls, certificate operations, and data protection capabilities.<br>• Build, secure, and maintain identity infrastructure across Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environments.<br>• Develop cloud security architecture, governance standards, and automation processes to improve control effectiveness and operational efficiency.<br>• Support enterprise certificate lifecycle management through the implementation and operation of PKI-related services.<br>• Research, test, and validate new security tools and approaches, providing leadership with recommendations on solutions that deliver measurable value.<br>• Advise business and IT partners on secure design practices, helping teams embed security into processes, platforms, and day-to-day operations.
<p>We are seeking a senior DevOps professional to assess, design, and help implement a scalable cloud data platform that supports enterprise analytics and upcoming cloud ERP integration. This role will play a critical part in moving the organization from a limited data warehouse model to a modern data lake or lakehouse architecture with appropriate governance, security, and operational rigor.</p><p>This is a hands‑on, architecture‑led engagement focused on platform enablement, reliability, and long‑term operational sustainability.</p><p>Key responsibilities</p><ul><li>Assess the current data and analytics environment and identify architectural, tooling, and operational gaps</li><li>Design a scalable cloud‑based data platform architecture (data lake / lakehouse patterns) aligned to future ERP and analytics needs</li><li>Recommend and implement DevOps tooling including CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, monitoring, and environment management</li><li>Build and harden data ingestion pipelines supporting batch and near‑real‑time integrations from ERP, SaaS, and third‑party data sources</li><li>Establish platform security, identity, access controls, and key management in partnership with security stakeholders</li><li>Define data platform operating standards including deployment patterns, error handling, and observability</li><li>Support ERP data integration efforts and analytics readiness leading up to and following ERP go‑live</li><li>Partner closely with data engineers, analytics teams, and external vendors to enable downstream consumption</li><li>Produce documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials to support long‑term internal ownership</li></ul><p>Interested candidates should submit resumes to sally.lander@roberthalf(.com).</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Data Governance Program lead to guide and strengthen enterprise data governance practices for a public-sector environment. This contract position will focus on turning an established governance strategy into practical, repeatable operating routines that improve accountability, consistency, and cross-department collaboration. The role is ideal for someone who can bring structure to a decentralized data landscape, support governance adoption across varied stakeholders, and provide clear direction that helps leadership manage risk and improve data stewardship.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Direct daily governance and data management activities for a small team, setting priorities and providing guidance that keeps work aligned with organizational goals.</p><p>• Coordinate governance forums and work closely with departmental representatives to improve decision-making, accountability, and participation across the organization.</p><p>• Convert the existing governance strategy into actionable phases, defined deliverables, and achievable timelines that support steady progress.</p><p>• Build and standardize governance procedures that can be applied consistently across departments without relying on the rollout of new enterprise platforms.</p><p>• Clarify and document responsibilities for data owners, stewards, and other designated stakeholders so governance expectations are well understood.</p><p>• Collaborate with leaders to ensure governance practices reflect compliance, records management, and risk requirements.</p><p>• Lead communication and change adoption efforts that help teams understand governance objectives and embed them into day-to-day operations.</p><p>• Design and launch organization-wide governance training to establish a common understanding of policies, standards, and responsibilities.</p><p>• Define practical standards for data retention, disposal, and lifecycle oversight while improving consistency across shared systems, files, and legacy records.</p><p>• Report on governance progress, participation levels, emerging risks, and maturity trends to provide leadership with clear operational visibility.</p><p><br></p><p>Please submit resumes to sally.lander@roberthalf.(com) for immediate consideration.</p>