Cyber Security Engineer - Data Security

Healthfirst; New York (NY); On-site; USD 108,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k contributions

Incentive programs

Job summary

Healthfirst in New York seeks a Cyber Security Engineer - Data Security to design and implement data protection across cloud, SaaS, apps, and databases. You will map data lifecycles, enforce controls, and collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, Data, and AI teams to scale DSPM and DLP capabilities.

Hands-on engineering focus with encryption, key management, and access controls; you will automate security tasks via APIs and scripts, perform threat modeling, and support incident investigations

Qualifications

• Technical degree in CS, cyber security or equivalent experience.
• Entry-level experience in security engineering, network penetration, incident response, threat hunting, or governance risk & compliance.

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 for sensitive data.
• Engineer and operate DSPM to identify sensitive data exposure and misconfigurations.
• Develop and tune DLP across endpoint, cloud, email, collaboration, and SaaS environments.
• Assess how data is stored, processed, transmitted, and accessed and recommend controls.
• Identify over-privileged access and work with IAM and platform teams on least-privilege access.
• Support encryption, tokenization, masking, secrets protection, and key-management strategies.
• Develop monitoring and detection for data exfiltration and unauthorized access.
• Automate data security controls and remediation using APIs and scripting.
• Perform security assessments and threat modeling for systems storing sensitive information.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate data protection in designs.
• Support incident investigations involving potential data exposure.
• Develop security standards and engineering guidance for data protection.

Skills

Security engineering

Network penetration

Incident response

Threat hunting

Governance risk & compliance

Education

Technical Degree in Computer Science/Cyber Security or High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Description and Requirements

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.

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.

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