Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs in California
Infrastructure Security Engineer jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in enterprise technology, defense contracting, financial services, and cloud infrastructure across a seniority range from early-career analysts through principal engineers. The largest hiring metros are the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, with established employers like Google, Northrop Grumman, and Wells Fargo consistently filling these roles. The most in-demand specialties are zero-trust architecture, cloud security hardening, and network segmentation for hybrid environments. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Candidates for this position must have valid work authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship of a visa or signature by the employer on any immigration-related form.
Tech Summary:
The Chief Engineer provides technical leadership for CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM), enterprise identity security, and privileged account governance. The position supports the design, implementation, integration, and ongoing advancement of secure, scalable, and resilient privileged access solutions across complex enterprise environments.
The role provides technical direction across CyberArk technologies and capabilities supporting privileged access, session management, credential management, secrets management, endpoint privilege management, platform availability, disaster recovery, and security integrations. The position also supports automation and modernization of privileged access capabilities across Microsoft and hybrid environments.
The Chief Engineer partners with identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, and other cross-functional technology teams to strengthen privileged access controls, support security and compliance objectives, and advance enterprise identity security initiatives. The role provides technical leadership for strategic initiatives and helps guide engineering practices and scalable security solutions aligned with organizational security and operational objectives.
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for providing expert level consultation on the design, build, testing, and implementation of information security technologies, including infrastructure and supporting applications related to data protection, network security, end-point security, threat monitoring, and/or IAM. This includes managing complex IS projects or programs through both pre-production and implementation phases by partnering with internal technology risk teams, infrastructure management, and external business groups to understand requirements and design and implement solutions accordingly; testing and validating upgrades, enhancements, or new technologies prior to production implementation; consulting on incident support efforts to help resolve and remediate application production issues; and leading the implementation of new security controls as appropriate to resolve incidences and mitigate threat risks. This position is also responsible for serving as a lead subject matter expert on infrastructure security operations, leveraging partnerships with the IS Architecture & Strategy team to help develop and validate the long-term direction for security technologies, and providing technical subject matter expertise to support the ongoing assessment and mitigation of information security risks.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
- Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.
- Fosters and leverages partnerships with various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation.
- Serve as an expert in developing system designs that adhere to company architecture standards.
- Provides guidance and standards for writing, reviewing, and validating technical specifications and documentation.
- Leads team interactions with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs.
- Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provide solutions.
- Modifies and validates system design prototypes.
- Provides expert consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems across multiple IT functional areas by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
- Leverages expertise on existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands.
- Leads others in developing project support plans, schedules, and assignments.
- Partners with business leaders, Solutions, and enterprise architects to review business drivers, and define, understand, and communicate target strategies and roadmaps to team members.
- Leads colleagues in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems spanning multiple IT functional areas, by partnering with lead Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.
- Provides recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs.
- Serves as a key partner for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure systems across multiple functional IT areas by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services.
- Leads team members in the estimation of resource requirements for technical design.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum eight (8) years experience in the planning, design, and implementation of infrastructure or security solutions, including Minimum four (4) years leading the configuration, implementation, and operation of security technologies.
- Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies , systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Four (4) years of experience building technology solutions to meet corporate or industry IT regulatory requirements.
- Four (4) years experience in the design and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions.
PrimaryLocation : California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building A
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Information Technology
Department : KPIT ADMIN - Identity Access Mgmt - 9601
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Candidates for this position must have valid work authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship of a visa or signature by the employer on any immigration-related form.
Tech Summary:
The Chief Engineer provides technical leadership for CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM), enterprise identity security, and privileged account governance. The position supports the design, implementation, integration, and ongoing advancement of secure, scalable, and resilient privileged access solutions across complex enterprise environments.
The role provides technical direction across CyberArk technologies and capabilities supporting privileged access, session management, credential management, secrets management, endpoint privilege management, platform availability, disaster recovery, and security integrations. The position also supports automation and modernization of privileged access capabilities across Microsoft and hybrid environments.
The Chief Engineer partners with identity and access management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, compliance, and other cross-functional technology teams to strengthen privileged access controls, support security and compliance objectives, and advance enterprise identity security initiatives. The role provides technical leadership for strategic initiatives and helps guide engineering practices and scalable security solutions aligned with organizational security and operational objectives.
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for providing expert level consultation on the design, build, testing, and implementation of information security technologies, including infrastructure and supporting applications related to data protection, network security, end-point security, threat monitoring, and/or IAM. This includes managing complex IS projects or programs through both pre-production and implementation phases by partnering with internal technology risk teams, infrastructure management, and external business groups to understand requirements and design and implement solutions accordingly; testing and validating upgrades, enhancements, or new technologies prior to production implementation; consulting on incident support efforts to help resolve and remediate application production issues; and leading the implementation of new security controls as appropriate to resolve incidences and mitigate threat risks. This position is also responsible for serving as a lead subject matter expert on infrastructure security operations, leveraging partnerships with the IS Architecture & Strategy team to help develop and validate the long-term direction for security technologies, and providing technical subject matter expertise to support the ongoing assessment and mitigation of information security risks.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
- Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.
- Fosters and leverages partnerships with various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation.
- Serve as an expert in developing system designs that adhere to company architecture standards.
- Provides guidance and standards for writing, reviewing, and validating technical specifications and documentation.
- Leads team interactions with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable system designs.
- Leverages partnerships with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provide solutions.
- Modifies and validates system design prototypes.
- Provides expert consultation and expert technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems across multiple IT functional areas by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
- Leverages expertise on existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels and meet new demands.
- Leads others in developing project support plans, schedules, and assignments.
- Partners with business leaders, Solutions, and enterprise architects to review business drivers, and define, understand, and communicate target strategies and roadmaps to team members.
- Leads colleagues in the translation of business requirements and functional specifications into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for complex or high impact infrastructure systems spanning multiple IT functional areas, by partnering with lead Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.
- Provides recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs.
- Serves as a key partner for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure systems across multiple functional IT areas by defining and overseeing the documentation of detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services.
- Leads team members in the estimation of resource requirements for technical design.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum eight (8) years experience in the planning, design, and implementation of infrastructure or security solutions, including Minimum four (4) years leading the configuration, implementation, and operation of security technologies.
- Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies , systems development, and/or networking. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Four (4) years of experience building technology solutions to meet corporate or industry IT regulatory requirements.
- Four (4) years experience in the design and implementation of complex infrastructure solutions.
PrimaryLocation : California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building A
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Information Technology
Department : KPIT ADMIN - Identity Access Mgmt - 9601
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in infrastructure security engineer jobs across California.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+ required or strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and SIEM platforms
- Demonstrated knowledge of zero-trust architecture and network segmentation principles
- Proficiency with cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
- Experience conducting vulnerability assessments and translating findings into remediation plans
- Strong understanding of NIST, CIS Controls, or other recognized security frameworks
Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become an infrastructure security engineer in California?
Most California employers require a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related field, combined with hands-on security experience or a recognized certification such as CISSP or CompTIA Security+. California does not issue a state-specific license for this role, but many positions at defense contractors require a federal security clearance obtained through the employer. Building experience in network administration or systems engineering and earning industry certifications are the most reliable paths into the role here.
How much do infrastructure security engineers make in California?
Infrastructure security engineers in California earn a median of about $134,440 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $58,340 for the lowest 10% to over $222,690 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire infrastructure security engineers in California?
Employers hiring infrastructure security engineers in California right now include OpenAI, Higgsfield, and Groq, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. California's concentration of large tech headquarters, aerospace primes, and major financial institutions makes it one of the deepest markets for this role in the country.
Which California cities have the most infrastructure security engineer jobs?
San Francisco, Tustin, and San Jose lead California for infrastructure security engineer openings. The Bay Area's density of enterprise technology companies and cloud providers drives the highest concentration, while Los Angeles draws demand from entertainment technology and aerospace, and San Diego's volume reflects the large defense contractor and military presence anchored there.
Are there remote infrastructure security engineer jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most technical fields. About 64% of infrastructure security engineer openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of the work involves managing cloud environments and policy frameworks that don't require a physical presence. Roles involving on-site data centers, classified government systems, or physical network infrastructure remain predominantly in-office.
How can I get hired as an infrastructure security engineer in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a network administrator or systems administrator role, both of which are common stepping-stone titles at California technology companies and large enterprises. Large California employers such as Cisco, Kaiser Permanente, and the University of California system regularly hire for associate or junior security analyst positions that accept candidates without direct security experience. Earning CompTIA Security+ or completing a hands-on lab portfolio demonstrating firewall configuration and log analysis gives candidates a concrete edge in California screening processes.
Where can I find and apply to infrastructure security engineer jobs in California?
You can find and apply to infrastructure security engineer jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings for this role. Search the listings, find roles that fit your experience and location, and apply directly to each one.
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