STEM OPT Senior Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer roles qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you up to 36 months of F-1 work authorization. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify, and your degree in computer science, information security, or a related STEM field must match a qualifying CIP code. This page lists employers actively hiring for this role.
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What success looks like in this role:
Responsible for the identification, tracking, and management of enterprise risks in Unisys cloud environments. This includes performing risk assessments and measuring the success and effectiveness of mitigation efforts. Collaboration across business units and effective communication of cloud security policies and procedures will be critical. Candidates for this role should have a strong background in cloud management and understand networking between on-prem and cloud environments.
- Design and implement security dashboards for real-time visibility into vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, and risk metrics, providing actionable insights to development and security teams.
- Analyze, prioritize, and manage vulnerabilities identified in applications and cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely remediation and risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with the SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) security team configuring and managing the SIEM platform.
- Assists in analyzing new software requests from a security perspective, ensuring alignment with organizational security policies and best practices.
- Implement and maintain a broad range of security technologies and processes to support the organization’s cloud-based applications, services, and infrastructure. Understand how to work with managed security services for the top cloud providers.
- Provide expertise and support to business teams regarding best practices for cloud security.
- Develop, tune, and maintain AI agents, prompts, and scripts that reduce manual analyst workload - for example, detection triage, alert enrichment, and report generation.
- Support the AI Security Architect in piloting, testing, and rolling out new AI capabilities and platform modules.
- Perform routine and targeted audits of cloud environments to identify security vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conduct security risk assessments and incident response for cloud services.
- Serves as an escalation point for technical issues around security tooling and the Unisys SOC team.
You will be successful in this role if you have:
Prior work experience should include:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or similar, or the equivalent hands-on experience combined with training and certifications.
- Strong knowledge of cloud architectures, operations, and security controls.
- 3-5+ years of application security experience.
- Solid scripting/programming ability (Python, PowerShell, or similar) for building automation and integrations.
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud security tooling.
- Strong understanding of regulatory compliance requirements related to cloud environments.
- Proficiency in security technologies such as SIEM, SOAR, and endpoint protection.
- At least 5 years of experience between cloud engineering and security operations.
- Proven experience of handling cloud security incidents.
- Have conducted cloud security audits, compliance assessments, and creating recommendations for improving security posture.
- Handling event streams in cloud platforms or workloads and have worked on automation that ingested or processed these events.
- Communicate effectively with developers, project teams, technical and business owners the security risks and remediation strategies appropriate for an application.
- Strong organizational skills and time management capabilities.
Benefits
Unisys offers an outstanding benefits package, featuring unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) match, comprehensive healthcare, HSA matching, ongoing learning opportunities, and more! We’re committed to supporting work-life balance and investing in your future success.
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At Unisys, we incorporate video interviews as a key part of our hiring process. This allows us to get to know you better and provide a more engaging and convenient interview experience. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to connecting with you virtually!
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This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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Verify your CIP code before applying
Check that your degree program's CIP code appears on the STEM Designated Degree Program List published by DHS. Cybersecurity-adjacent degrees in information assurance or network security qualify under different codes than computer science. Confirm with your DSO before your OPT end date.
Filter employers by E-Verify enrollment status
STEM OPT requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify before your extension starts. Ask recruiters to confirm enrollment during the screening call. Employers who can't confirm it immediately may not be set up to hire STEM OPT students legally.
Use Migrate Mate to target active STEM OPT employers
Search Senior Cybersecurity Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified STEM OPT hiring history. This cuts the time you'd otherwise spend cold-screening employers for E-Verify status and STEM OPT familiarity.
Draft your I-983 training plan before the offer stage
Your I-983 must describe how your cybersecurity role directly applies your STEM degree, naming specific skills like threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, or security architecture. Employers unfamiliar with the form appreciate receiving a draft, which also accelerates the signing process.
Target employers with dedicated security teams
Organizations with in-house security operations centers or dedicated compliance teams are more likely to have structured onboarding for work-authorized hires. Government contractors subject to CMMC or FedRAMP requirements often have established processes for I-983 completion and E-Verify workflows.
Align your extension timeline with the H-1B cap season
If your OPT ends before October 1 and your H-1B visa is selected in the lottery, the cap-gap rule automatically extends your work authorization. Confirm your 24-month STEM OPT end date with your DSO so you can plan the H-1B filing window with your employer's HR team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, provided your underlying degree falls under a qualifying CIP code on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List. Degrees in computer science, information security, electrical engineering, or applied mathematics typically qualify. Your DSO confirms eligibility and issues the updated I-20 before you apply for the extension through USCIS using Form I-765.
What E-Verify requirement applies to my employer for STEM OPT?
Your employer must be actively enrolled in E-Verify before your STEM OPT extension begins. Enrollment must cover the work site where you'll perform your duties, not just the company's headquarters. You can ask your recruiter to provide the E-Verify company ID or have HR confirm enrollment directly with your DSO during the offer stage.
What goes into an I-983 training plan for a cybersecurity role?
The I-983 must connect your day-to-day responsibilities to the STEM field of your degree. For a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, that means documenting specific learning objectives such as security architecture design, incident response, or penetration testing methodologies. Both you and your employer sign it, and your DSO reviews it for approval before your extension start date.
How does the cap-gap rule affect me as a STEM OPT student in cybersecurity?
If your employer files an H-1B petition on your behalf before your STEM OPT expires and your registration is selected, the cap-gap provision extends your F-1 work authorization through September 30 of that year. You can continue working in your Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role without interruption while USCIS adjudicates the petition. Your DSO updates your I-20 to reflect cap-gap status.
Where can I find Senior Cybersecurity Engineer jobs that hire STEM OPT students?
Migrate Mate lists Senior Cybersecurity Engineer roles from employers with confirmed STEM OPT hiring activity, so you're not filtering blindly through postings from companies unfamiliar with E-Verify or the I-983 process. Searching by role on Migrate Mate surfaces positions where the employer infrastructure for STEM OPT onboarding is already in place.