Top Cybersecurity Jobs in Chicago, IL

Designs, implements, and maintains identity and access management solutions using Okta and Okta Workflows. Assesses and mitigates IAM security risks, supports authentication and authorization best practices, collaborates across business units, and drives IAM initiatives. The role requires expertise in IAM protocols, Terraform, GitHub, security frameworks, compliance practices, and clear communication of complex security concepts.

Leads security engineering architecture and strategy, including IAM, SSO, authentication, authorization, observability, and distributed event-based systems. Drives build-versus-buy decisions, improves security microservices and tooling, establishes engineering standards, and secures agentic AI infrastructure. Collaborates cross-functionally on priorities and tradeoffs while mentoring engineers, documenting practices, evaluating technologies, and advancing security across a cloud-based microservice architecture.

Leads security engineering implementations for identity management, authorization, observability, and microservice security. The role improves security services, frameworks, tooling, and standards; configures Auth0, Okta, Auth0-FGA, Chronicle, Terraform, and GCP; partners with product and engineering teams; and drives reliable, scalable security solutions across the organization.

Secure applications, APIs, cloud services, and AI/LLM-enabled systems throughout the SDLC. Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, penetration tests, vulnerability triage, and remediation guidance. Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI/CD pipelines; build secure automation and guardrails; support vulnerability disclosure; and coach developers on secure design and coding. The role protects sensitive clinical and genomic data while communicating security risks to engineering teams and leadership.