<p>*** Hybrid in East Metro Twin Cities ***</p><p>We are looking for a network leader to support agile delivery for network-focused initiatives within a manufacturing environment. This Long-term Contract position will guide teams through effective sprint execution, strengthen collaboration across stakeholders, and help maintain clear priorities tied to business value, security, and operational stability. The role will work closely with product, engineering, and business partners to improve delivery consistency, visibility, and outcomes across enterprise network services.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives to keep teams aligned and delivery on track.</p><p>• Partner with product and technical stakeholders to help shape, clarify, and sequence work items so teams can execute against the highest-value priorities.</p><p>• Support backlog refinement by ensuring stories are well defined, dependencies are visible, and acceptance criteria are understood before development begins.</p><p>• Remove delivery obstacles and escalate risks early to protect sprint commitments and improve team momentum.</p><p>• Track progress through agile metrics such as burndown trends, throughput, and sprint outcomes to identify opportunities for better predictability.</p><p>• Promote transparent communication among business leaders, network engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams regarding status, risks, and changing priorities.</p><p>• Coach teams on Scrum practices and continuous improvement methods that strengthen accountability, collaboration, and delivery quality.</p><p>• Work with vendors and cross-functional contributors to coordinate efforts and keep deliverables aligned with broader network product goals.</p><p>• Support planning discussions by helping teams balance immediate delivery needs with longer-term resiliency, modernization, and security objectives.</p><p><br></p><p>ANYONE INTERESTED SHOULD CONTACT ROBERT BROMMEL AT 612-503-4032</p>
<p>This role is the first dedicated Application Security hire on a growing security team and will build the AppSec function from the ground up. The focus is hands-on, practitioner-level application security with SAST and DAST at the core, strong API security fundamentals, and close partnership with developers.</p><p>The environment is SaaS-heavy and AWS-native with no on-prem applications. This role embeds security directly into modern development workflows, including AI-assisted coding using tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, ensuring secure application, API, and cloud delivery at scale.</p><p><br></p><p>What You’ll Do (Core Responsibilities)</p><p>• Own and operate the organization’s SAST and DAST programs end-to-end</p><p>• Design, deploy, tune, and mature SAST and DAST tooling across development and release pipelines</p><p>• Review application code, including AI-generated code, to identify vulnerabilities, insecure patterns, secrets exposure, and data handling risks</p><p>• Partner directly with software developers to triage findings, prioritize remediation, and validate fixes</p><p>• Act as a trusted AppSec partner to engineering, not a gatekeeper</p><p>• Perform application and API security reviews across internally developed and SaaS-integrated systems</p><p>• Evaluate authentication, authorization, transport security, rate limiting, session handling, logging, and data exposure risks</p><p>• Assess externally exposed applications and APIs for secure design and release readiness</p><p>• Support secure AWS application patterns including IAM, secrets management, logging, networking, and containerized workloads</p><p>• Help centralize and improve secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager and enterprise tooling</p><p>• Translate security requirements into practical, developer-friendly guidance</p><p>• Help govern AI-assisted development by defining guardrails for acceptable use of AI coding tools</p><p>• Review AI-enabled workflows for security risks including prompt misuse, data leakage, and insecure implementation</p><p>• Build repeatable security review criteria and documentation aligned to NIST and SOC 2 expectations</p>
<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>
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>We are looking for an Application & AI Security Engineer to support secure software delivery and AI-enabled development practices. This position is ideal for a hands-on security specialist who can apply practical expertise across enterprise applications, modern development tools, and cloud security fundamentals. The role focuses on strengthening application protections, guiding secure use of AI coding platforms, and partnering with technical teams in a fast-moving environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead security reviews for enterprise applications and integrated platforms, identifying weaknesses related to authentication, authorization, data handling, and service communication.</p><p>• Establish guardrails for AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and similar platforms to promote secure coding and responsible usage.</p><p>• Work directly with engineering and platform teams to embed application security practices into design, development, and deployment activities.</p><p>• Assess cloud and infrastructure configurations with attention to identity controls, secrets protection, logging, and network security fundamentals.</p><p>• Provide practical remediation guidance for vulnerabilities discovered in applications, APIs, and supporting environments.</p><p>• Support security improvements across ERP and business system integrations where secure data exchange and access control are critical.</p><p>• Drive adoption of security standards and influence teams through periods of rapid change and evolving technical priorities.</p>