Global Cybersecurity Lead & Data Protection Engineer

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 154,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement contributions

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Data Protection Engineer to manage and operate the Data Protection architecture across GCC High platforms (AWS, Azure, M365) per NIST 800-171, DFARS 7012, and CMMC Level 2 requirements. You will lead labeling strategy, data controls, and AI-enabled security tooling in a fast-paced, security-focused team.

Ideal candidates have 5–8+ years in information security and strong experience with data protection, classification, and AI data handling, in a GCC High

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of Information Security and Data Protection experience.
• 3-5+ years of Data Protection operational capabilities and strategies.
• Experience with data handling within AI tooling and management.
• Be proficient in data classification and tracking strategies.
• Familiar with FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, etc.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain the Data Classification and labeling technical strategy in alignment with business, client and compliance requirements.
• Translate compliance and client contractual obligations into an operational data schema.
• Collaborate with Engineering and IT Service teams to lead effective process improvements.
• Collaborate with Risk and Security teams to define restrictive labeling strategy.
• Refine Data Protection processes policies to align with security needs.
• Present data analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead data driven egress monitoring and controls evolutions.
• Architect new data controls and strategy within emerging AI architecture.
• Evolve security tools and reporting with embedded AI Security tools.
• Collaborate with vendor technical teams to enable progress.
• Use newer technologies to automate containment, isolation and drive better user behaviors.
• Perform Technical research on new challenges.

Skills

Data protection strategy

Security governance

Data classification

Threat analysis

AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security

Tools

Azure

M365

Purview

Defender

Zscaler

Job description

Boston Consulting Group is seeking a Data Protection Engineer to manage and operate the Data Protection architecture across GCC High platforms (AWS, Azure, M365) per NIST 800-171, DFARS 7012, and CMMC Level 2 requirements. You will lead labeling strategy, data controls, and AI-enabled security tooling in a fast-paced, security-focused team.

Ideal candidates have 5–8+ years in information security and strong experience with data protection, classification, and AI data handling, in a GCC High