Top Cybersecurity Jobs in Chicago, IL

Deliver strategic cybersecurity advisory engagements, assess and mature security and incident response programs, develop exercise scenarios, and produce reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings for customer management. The role also identifies emerging cybersecurity trends, contributes to thought leadership and methodologies, and supports multiple concurrent projects. Candidates independently perform strategic analysis, communicate effectively with stakeholders, use AI technologies to improve workflows and decisions, and travel to client engagements up to 30%.

Monitor emerging vulnerabilities, assess exploitability and business risk, prioritize remediation, and develop vulnerability intelligence frameworks. Implement asset detection and monitoring across cloud and data-center environments, maintain vulnerability management KPIs, communicate security posture to technical and executive stakeholders, use CrowdStrike Falcon capabilities, and build security tooling. The role requires scripting, threat intelligence research, cloud and Linux experience, cross-functional collaboration, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Analyze malware, binary files, customer detection tickets, and machine learning detections to improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives. Review product detections, assess binary legitimacy, address internal detection questions, and provide insights to data science teams. The role collaborates with technical account managers, incident response teams, data scientists, and malware researchers. Required capabilities include malware analysis, reverse engineering, Python scripting, binary fundamentals, threat assessment, research methods, operating systems, and AI-assisted workflow improvement.

Track and analyze PRC-nexus cyber operations, adversary campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures using proprietary telemetry, open-source data, and third-party intelligence. Produce strategic and tactical intelligence reports, conduct research, identify intelligence gaps, support customer briefings, review peer reporting, respond to information requests, and contribute to process automation and analytic improvements. The role requires geopolitical knowledge of China and the Indo-Pacific, cyber threat intelligence expertise, and the ability to work independently under deadlines.

The AI Security Consultant will enhance security programs, secure AI systems, engage in technical analysis, and report findings. They will also contribute to thought leadership while ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication.

Deliver generative AI-enabled source code review and application security engagements. Coordinate with leadership, organize resources, refine and present assessment findings, document recommendations, and mentor junior red team members. Support penetration testing projects, including external and web application testing, while managing engagement delivery and improving security assessment technologies and workflows.

Delivers strategic cybersecurity advisory engagements for organizational leaders. Assesses and develops cybersecurity and incident response programs, creates exercises and scenarios, identifies emerging cyber trends, and produces reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings. The role also contributes to thought leadership, methodology development, and internal initiatives while managing multiple projects and client relationships independently. Travel up to 30% is required, often on short notice.

Lead incident response engagements, investigate intrusions and advanced threats, perform host and network forensics, conduct basic malware analysis, and develop remediation plans. Communicate findings to customers, regulators, executives, and legal counsel through reports and presentations. Lead teams, mentor colleagues, contribute industry thought leadership, and use AI to improve workflows and decision-making. Travel on short notice up to 30% of the time.

Lead complex incident response engagements, investigate advanced threats, conduct host and network forensics across Windows, macOS, and Linux, perform malware analysis, and develop remediation plans. The consultant will communicate findings to executives, regulators, legal counsel, and customers; lead teams; conduct cloud incident response; contribute industry thought leadership; apply AI technologies; and travel on short notice up to 30%.