Cyber Security Engineer - Data Security

HealthFirst; Herminie (PA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Healthfirst is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Security to design, implement, and continuously improve security capabilities protecting sensitive data across the enterprise.

The role focuses on understanding where data resides, how it moves, who can access it, and ensuring appropriate controls across the data lifecycle, including cloud, SaaS, databases, endpoints, and AI environments.

Qualifications

• Technical degree or equivalent experience in security
• Experience in security engineering, threat modeling or incident response is a plus
• Familiarity with data security concepts: discovery, classification, access control, encryption, DLP

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data security controls across cloud, SaaS, apps, databases, endpoints, and AI platforms.
• Implement data discovery, classification, labeling, and protection for sensitive data.
• Operate DSPM to detect data exposure, misconfigurations and access issues.
• Develop and tune DLP controls across endpoints, cloud, email and SaaS.
• Assess data storage and transmission to recommend appropriate security controls.
• Collaborate with IAM, Privacy and platform teams to enforce least privilege access.
• Support encryption, tokenization, masking, and key management strategies.
• Develop monitoring and detection for suspicious data access and exfiltration.
• Automate data security controls and remediation via APIs and tooling.
• Perform security assessments and threat modeling for data-storing systems.
• Incorporate data protection requirements into system designs with engineering teams.
• Support incident investigations involving data exposure.

Skills

Security engineering

Data security

DSPM

DLP

Cloud security

Python

PowerShell

Threat modeling

Security automation

Zero trust

Education

Technical degree in Computer Science / Cyber Security

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Defender

Job description

We are seeking a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Security to design, implement, and continuously improve security capabilities that protect sensitive data across the enterprise.

This is a hands-on security engineering role focused on understanding where sensitive data resides, how it moves, who and what can access it, and ensuring appropriate controls are implemented throughout the data lifecycle.

The engineer will work closely with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data, Application, and AI teams to implement scalable data protection capabilities across cloud, SaaS, application, database, endpoint, and emerging AI environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data security controls across cloud, SaaS, applications, databases, endpoints, and AI platforms.
• Implement and improve data discovery, classification, labeling, and protection capabilities for sensitive and regulated data.
• Engineer and operate Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities to identify sensitive data, excessive exposure, misconfigurations, and inappropriate access.
• Develop and tune Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls across endpoint, cloud, email, collaboration, and SaaS environments.
• Assess how sensitive data is stored, processed, transmitted, and accessed and recommend appropriate security controls.
• Identify excessive or inappropriate access to sensitive data and partner with IAM, Privacy and platform teams to implement least-privilege access.
• Support encryption, tokenization, masking, secrets protection, and key-management strategies where appropriate.
• Develop monitoring and detection capabilities for suspicious or unauthorized access, movement, and exfiltration of sensitive data.
• Automate data security controls, assessments, monitoring, and remediation using APIs, scripting, and security tooling.
• Perform security assessments and threat modeling for systems that store or process sensitive information.
• Partner with application, cloud, data, and AI engineering teams to incorporate data protection requirements into system designs.
• Support incident investigations involving potential data exposure or exfiltration.
• Develop technical standards, security patterns, and engineering guidance for protecting sensitive data.

Minimum Qualification

• Technical Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security and/or a High School Diploma/GED from an accredited institution along with equivalent work experience
• Entry-level experience in at least two of the following areas: security engineering, network penetration, incident response, threat hunting, and governance risk & compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, cloud security, data security, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience implementing or operating enterprise data protection, DLP, DSPM, or data security technologies.
• Strong understanding of data security principles including discovery, classification, access control, encryption, data loss prevention, and monitoring.
• Experience securing data across cloud, SaaS, database, and application environments.
• Understanding of IAM concepts including authentication, authorization, RBAC, least privilege, and privileged access.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with security automation, scripting, or APIs; Python, PowerShell, or comparable experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of security architecture and common data-exfiltration techniques.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and translate identified risks into practical engineering solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across security and engineering teams.
• Experience implementing or operating DSPM/CNAPP/data security platforms in large enterprise environments.
• Experience with enterprise DLP technologies across endpoint, email, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, or comparable enterprise data security technologies.
• Experience securing structured and unstructured data across databases, data lakes, warehouses, object storage, and collaboration platforms.
• Experience with encryption, key management, tokenization, masking, or secrets-management technologies.
• Experience developing automated data security controls and remediation workflows.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and incorporating security controls into cloud deployments.
• Understanding of data security considerations for generative AI and agentic AI, including preventing inappropriate access to or disclosure of sensitive information.
• Familiarity with data governance, retention, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience protecting PHI, PII, financial, or other sensitive data in a regulated environment.

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Hiring Range*:

• Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $108,300 - $156,485
• All Other Locations (within approved locations): $99,100 - $147,390

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.

In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.

*The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in “good faith” would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.