Senior Data Protection & Cloud Security Engineer

90 Saia Inc; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Great benefits

Job summary

Saia is seeking a seasoned Data Security Engineer to design and advance enterprise data protection strategies across systems and platforms. This role leads data loss prevention and cloud access security programs while driving compliance initiatives.

You will mentor analysts, oversee investigations, and collaborate with legal and compliance partners to reduce risk. Strong knowledge of encryption, key management, CAS, and data governance is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field.
• 5+ years of data security engineering or related experience.
• Prior experience leading cross-functional security programs and delivering measurable risk reduction.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security controls, encryption methods, key management practices, and data governance frameworks.
• Proficiency in data loss prevention, cloud access security technologies, and enterprise data protection architectures.

Responsibilities

• Leads the design and implementation of enterprise data loss prevention and cloud access security strategies and technical roadmaps.
• Oversees complex data protection investigations and coordinates cross-functional remediation efforts with legal and compliance partners.
• Develops data discovery, classification, and protection programs across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Integrates data protection telemetry into enterprise detection platforms and conducts proactive threat hunting focused on data exfiltration risks.
• Establishes data protection policies, standards, and performance metrics and reports program effectiveness to senior leadership.
• Evaluates encryption, data governance, and security monitoring technologies and leads vendor assessments and tool selection efforts.
• Mentors data security analysts and facilitates training exercises to strengthen incident preparedness and response capabilities.

Skills

Data security engineering

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud security controls

Data governance

Threat hunting

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field

Tools

DLP technologies

Cloud access security tools

Job description

Saia is seeking a seasoned Data Security Engineer to design and advance enterprise data protection strategies across systems and platforms. This role leads data loss prevention and cloud access security programs while driving compliance initiatives.

You will mentor analysts, oversee investigations, and collaborate with legal and compliance partners to reduce risk. Strong knowledge of encryption, key management, CAS, and data governance is essential.