Remote Data Protection Engineer

Southern New Hampshire University; Kansas City (MO); Remote; USD 97,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision plans

Paid time off + holidays

Employer-funded retirement

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain data protection controls across the enterprise data estate. The role focuses on encryption, access management, data labeling, masking, and secure data pipelines, working with teams across Security Operations, Data & Analytics, and IT.

The successful candidate will have 7+ years in information security or related fields, strong SQL skills, and hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security or related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in information security, cloud engineering, database engineering, data engineering, or related field.
• Proficiency with SQL, including assessing queries, permissions, and database security configurations.
• Hands-on implementation of data protection controls in enterprise data environments.

Responsibilities

• Implements and maintains data protection controls across the enterprise data estate.
• Configures encryption controls for data at rest and in transit.
• Enforces least-privilege access models across data platforms and services.
• Embeds security controls into data ingestion, transformation, and sharing workflows.
• Automates control deployment, configuration assessment, and compliance validation.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data security

Cloud security

Security risk assessment

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security or related discipline

Tools

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain data protection controls across the enterprise data estate. The role focuses on encryption, access management, data labeling, masking, and secure data pipelines, working with teams across Security Operations, Data & Analytics, and IT.

The successful candidate will have 7+ years in information security or related fields, strong SQL skills, and hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such