Data Security Engineer: Protect Data Across Cloud & Apps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

401k Contributions

Incentive & Recognition Programs

Life Insurance

Job summary

Healthfirst is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Security to design, implement, and continuously improve security capabilities that protect sensitive data across the enterprise. This hands‑on role covers data discovery, classification, labeling, protection, and access controls across cloud, SaaS, applications, databases, endpoints, and AI environments.

You will work with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data, Application, and AI teams to implement scalable data protection;

Qualifications

• Must have a technical degree or equivalent work experience in security fields.
• Entry-level experience in at least two areas: security engineering, network penetration, incident response, threat hunting, and 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 capabilities for sensitive and regulated data.
• Engineer and operate Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities to identify sensitive data, exposure, misconfigurations, and access issues.
• Develop and tune Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls across endpoint, cloud, email, collaboration, and SaaS environments.
• Assess data storage, processing, transmission, and access to recommend appropriate security controls.
• Partner with IAM, Privacy and platform teams to implement least-privilege access for sensitive data.
• Support encryption, tokenization, masking, secrets protection, and key-management strategies.
• Develop monitoring and detection capabilities for suspicious or unauthorized data access, movement, and exfiltration.
• Automate data security controls, assessments, monitoring, and remediation using APIs, scripting, and tooling.
• Perform security assessments and threat modeling for systems storing or processing sensitive information.

Skills

security engineering

incident response

threat hunting

governance risk & compliance

Education

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

Job description

Healthfirst is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Security to design, implement, and continuously improve security capabilities that protect sensitive data across the enterprise. This hands‑on role covers data discovery, classification, labeling, protection, and access controls across cloud, SaaS, applications, databases, endpoints, and AI environments.

You will work with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Data, Application, and AI teams to implement scalable data protection;