Remote Data Protection Security Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision plans

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University seeks a Data Security Engineer to protect institutional data across the enterprise data estate. The role is hands-on, focusing on encryption, key management, access controls, masking, and secure data pipelines across platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure SQL.

You will work with Security Operations, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, and IT teams, implementing least-privilege models, automating controls with IaC, and supporting audits and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of information security, cloud engineering, or data engineering experience.
• Experience with data protection lifecycle: classification, encryption, key management.
• Strong knowledge of access controls and secure data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data protection controls across the data estate.
• Enforce labeling, masking, de-identification, and encryption for data in transit and at rest.
• Apply least-privilege access models across platforms, SQL, and notebooks.
• Automate control deployment and compliance validation using IaC and platform APIs.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, Data & Analytics, and IT teams.

Skills

Data security

Encryption

Access control

RBAC/ABAC

Threat modeling

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Platform APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology or information security

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University seeks a Data Security Engineer to protect institutional data across the enterprise data estate. The role is hands-on, focusing on encryption, key management, access controls, masking, and secure data pipelines across platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure SQL.

You will work with Security Operations, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, and IT teams, implementing least-privilege models, automating controls with IaC, and supporting audits and