Remote Data Security Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Free tuition program

Parental leave

Mental health resources

Medical insurance

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is a 100% remote-friendly employer seeking a Data Security Engineer to implement and operate security controls that protect institutional data across analytics platforms and databases. The role reports to the Deputy CISO and supports cloud data security and secure data pipelines.

Collaborate with Security Operations, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, and IT teams to enforce encryption, access controls, labeling, masking, and secure workflow practices while

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in information security, cloud engineering, data engineering, or a related field, including 2+ years focused on data protection.
• Proficiency with SQL and database security configurations.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Implements and maintains data protection controls across the enterprise data estate.
• Configures encryption controls for data at rest and in transit.
• Implements least-privilege access models across data platforms, databases, workspaces, schemas, tables, pipelines, and service identities; conducts entitlement reviews.
• Automates control deployment and integrates data security telemetry with Security Operations.

Skills

Data protection

Encryption

Access control

RBAC ABAC

Cloud security

Education

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

Tools

SQL

Databricks

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is a 100% remote-friendly employer seeking a Data Security Engineer to implement and operate security controls that protect institutional data across analytics platforms and databases. The role reports to the Deputy CISO and supports cloud data security and secure data pipelines.

Collaborate with Security Operations, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, and IT teams to enforce encryption, access controls, labeling, masking, and secure workflow practices while