Remote Data Protection Security Engineer

Southern New Hampshire University; Eagle (ID); Remote; USD 97,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is a data security engineer role focused on protecting institutional data across the enterprise data estate. The position emphasizes encryption, key management, access controls, data labeling, masking and secure data pipelines, working with security, analytics and IT teams.100% remote from approved US states.

Candidates should have 7+ years in information security, cloud/database experience, and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, information security or related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in information security, cloud engineering, data engineering or related field.
• Experience with data protection lifecycle including encryption, key management, and DLP.

Responsibilities

• Implements, operates, and improves data protection controls across the enterprise data estate.
• Configure and operate encryption, CMK, key rotation, and vaulting services.
• Apply least-privilege access models and perform entitlement reviews quarterly.
• Harden security configurations for cloud platforms and databases.
• Embed security controls into data ingestion, transformation, and sharing workflows.
• Automate control deployment and compliance validation using IaC and platform APIs.
• Provide hands-on support and create implementation guides and runbooks.

Skills

Data security

Encryption

Access controls

Data classification

Masking & de‑identification

Least privilege

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / CS / information security

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is a data security engineer role focused on protecting institutional data across the enterprise data estate. The position emphasizes encryption, key management, access controls, data labeling, masking and secure data pipelines, working with security, analytics and IT teams.100% remote from approved US states.

Candidates should have 7+ years in information security, cloud/database experience, and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.