Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

The Senior Security Engineering Manager oversees security policies, manages incident response, monitors threats, and coordinates investigations while ensuring compliance.

Senior security engineer responsible for developing automation and tooling, building and deploying security solutions, conducting incident response and proactive threat hunting, supporting investigations through data analysis, and advising development teams. Must document solutions, participate in agile teams, mentor juniors, and continuously research evolving security threats.

Lead AI security strategy and guardrails, design and review AI gateways and tooling, scale InfoSec review processes, reduce AI-driven security noise, drive remediation and investigations, and mentor security and platform engineers.

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

Lead systems security engineering for sensor and mission systems, developing Anti-Tamper and cybersecurity architectures, requirements, testing, reverse-engineering analyses, exportability and technology release assessments, cryptographic safeguards, and ST&E support to meet US government policies and program needs.

Lead systems security engineering for DoD sensor and mission systems, designing and validating anti-tamper and cybersecurity solutions. Perform requirements development, trade studies, reverse engineering, cryptographic protections, security test & evaluation, technology release/licensing analyses, and ensure compliance with US government security policies for export and program certification.

Lead and mentor a small IT security engineering team to deploy and operate enterprise-grade Zero Trust security across networks, endpoints, applications, and cloud. Drive Customer Zero initiatives, manage cross-functional security projects, optimize policies (SSL decryption, segmentation, access control), and serve as an internal subject-matter expert.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of security controls and monitoring. Drive incident response, vulnerability assessments/pen testing, automation, cloud and network security, SIEM/logging, and cross-team security integration to reduce organizational risk and meet regulatory best practices.

Senior technical authority for security architecture, engineering design, and enterprise risk mitigation. Designs, implements, and configures security solutions across firewalls, endpoints, monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and forensics. Leads tactical implementation, performs assessments, product evaluations, project support, and supports the Information Security program and strategic objectives.

Lead research and produce high‑impact network security insights. Advise clients on evaluation, selection and deployment of network security technologies, present at events, support sales, mentor analysts, and drive research agenda and process improvements.

Perform advanced offensive security work: conduct complex penetration tests, teach and integrate offensive tradecraft into the AI platform, harden product and company defenses, and collaborate with core engineers to build and ship capabilities that automate red-team techniques.

Lead and scale the Email Security engineering team, own roadmap delivery, drive architecture for high-throughput distributed systems, partner with Product and Security, mentor engineers, and oversee on-call, incident response, and system reliability.

Manage and grow a security engineering team responsible for product and platform security, embedding security into the SDLC, running red team/adversarial testing, performing hands-on web application pentesting, threat modeling, secure-coding guidance, and defining AI security guardrails.

Manage and lead engineering teams building endpoint security software: define and execute roadmaps, oversee SDLC and ISMS compliance, remove blockers, drive secure coding, coordinate with product and architects, recruit and develop staff, and manage budgets and operations.

Lead strategy, execution, and operational excellence for multiple security engineering domains. Build and develop leaders, deliver multi-year roadmaps, drive platform evolution, automation, vendor strategy, and cross-functional programs to reduce risk and scale secure operations.

Support cybersecurity engineering for a VA healthcare modernization project: secure AWS and hybrid environments, support RMF/ATO and compliance, configure and monitor AWS security services, produce SSPs/POA&Ms/SOPs, perform vulnerability assessments and DISA STIG hardening, integrate security into DevSecOps and CI/CD, and collaborate with stakeholders on security controls and remediation.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products to enable security and fraud detection. Implement ETL, data models, and distributed processing (Spark/Presto/Flink/Kafka) to centralize signals, support analytics and machine learning, and partner with security teams to improve detection and mitigation of fraud and account compromise.

Provide engineering-first customer support for security, privacy, and assurance tooling. Triage and resolve authentication and access issues, build automation and runbooks, maintain support tooling, and improve developer experience. Use Generative AI responsibly to accelerate triage, documentation, and automation while advocating for customers and collaborating with product and engineering partners.

Design, develop, and maintain Windows-focused PAM components including services, agents, and RDP handlers. Integrate with Windows APIs, authentication and privilege models, implement secure credential handling and policy enforcement, collaborate with backend teams, perform code reviews, and troubleshoot complex Windows OS and enterprise configurations.

Serve as the technical bridge between Product/Engineering and Customer Success to own onboarding, integrations, reference architectures, and troubleshooting for Zafran's cybersecurity platform. Influence product roadmap, advise R&D, and drive customer adoption and technical outcomes.

Lead technical discovery and design for enterprise customers, deliver demos and workshops, build architectures and POCs, influence sales strategy and product roadmap, enable partners, and create reference architectures and playbooks to support pre-sales and strategic deployments.