Cybersecurity Engineer

OpenGov is the leader in AI and ERP solutions for local and state governments in the U.S. More than 2,000 cities, counties, state agencies, school districts, and special districts rely on the OpenGov Public Service Platform to operate efficiently, adapt to change, and strengthen the public trust. Category-leading products include enterprise asset management, procurement and contract management, accounting and budgeting, billing and revenue management, permitting and licensing, and transparency and open data. These solutions come together in the OpenGov ERP, allowing public sector organizations to focus on priorities and deliver maximum ROI with every dollar and decision in sync. Learn about OpenGov’s mission to power more effective and accountable government and the vision of high-performance government for every community at OpenGov.com.

Job Summary

OpenGov is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cybersecurity Engineer to contribute to the development, deployment, and integration of security tooling across our infrastructure. This role is instrumental in advancing our Information Security program and ensuring that our cloud and on-prem environments are resilient, observable, and defensible. You’ll work closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to automate protections, detect misconfigurations, and proactively address vulnerabilities at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of internal security tools and automation pipelines to enhance visibility and enforce security controls across infrastructure.

• Implement solutions that secure our cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes clusters, focusing on detection-as-code, and SOAR functionality

• Partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams to build scalable solutions for logging, monitoring, identity enforcement, and misconfiguration detection and remediation.

• Own the deployment and lifecycle of critical security tools, including vulnerability management platforms, CSPM, SIEM, Incident Response, secrets management, application security scanning systems, endpoint protection systems and others.

• Develop and maintain custom detection rules, alerts, and remediations for cloud-native services, using tools such as GitHub, Terraform, Python, and serverless technologies.

• Create documentation, runbooks, and automated health checks for deployed tools to ensure operational excellence.

• Evaluate open-source and commercial tools for integration into the broader security ecosystem.

• Provide mentorship to junior engineers and serve as a technical SME for infrastructure security best practices.

• Contribute to Incident Response activities, including acting as Incident Commander for Security Incidents.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience, with a focus on infrastructure or cloud security.

• Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining security tools and automation.

• Deep understanding of cloud environments (AWS & Azure) and experience securing cloud-native services.

• Strong grasp of Threat Modeling fundamentals and systems hardening practices.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with tools such as Wiz, SentinelOne, Palo Alto, or similar is a plus.

• Ability to break down complex security challenges into scalable technical solutions.

Why OpenGov?

A Mission That Matters.

At OpenGov, public service is personal. We are passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. Government that operates efficiently, adapts to change, and strengthens public trust.  Some people say this is boring.  We think it’s the core of our democracy.

Opportunity to Innovate

The next great wave of innovation is unfolding with AI, and it will impact everything—from the way we work to the way governments interact with their residents. Join a trusted team with the passion, technology, and expertise to drive innovation and bring AI to local government. We’ve touched 2,000 communities so far, and we’re just getting started.

A Team of Passionate, Driven People

This isn’t your typical 9-to-5 job; we operate in a fast-paced, results-driven environment where impact matters more than simply clocking in and out. Our global team of 800+ employees is united in our commitment to challenge the status quo. OpenGov is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubuque, Plano, and Pune.

A Place to Make Your Mark

We pride ourselves on our performance-based culture, where every employee is encouraged to jump in head-first and take action to help us improve. If you have a great idea, we want to hear it. Excellent performance is recognized and rewarded, and we love to promote from within.