Top Cyber Security Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads and supports offensive security consulting engagements, including network, web application, wireless, social engineering, red team, and purple team testing. Evaluates controls and security configurations, performs cybersecurity assessments, recommends remediation, and presents findings to technical and executive stakeholders. Supports client program execution, metrics, issue remediation, and continuous improvement. Mentors junior consultants and contributes to cybersecurity practice development, methodology innovation, and thought leadership.

Leads cybersecurity, network security, and site reliability engineering across manufacturing and engineering environments. Designs secure infrastructure, manages Fortinet firewalls, Arista networks, VMware platforms, servers, SAN storage, backups, and disaster recovery. Oversees vulnerability management, incident response, compliance, infrastructure hardening, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and production incident escalation. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and security architecture guidance while supporting global manufacturing operations.

Leads Ferguson’s enterprise Security Engineering function, including vulnerability management, DevSecOps, penetration testing, application and cloud security, endpoint and email protection, edge security, configuration management, and security tooling. Builds and develops technical teams, establishes roadmaps and metrics, prioritizes risk-based remediation, oversees vendors and service operations, and communicates security posture and investment needs to executives and technology partners.

Leads enterprise cybersecurity architecture for AI, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Designs secure AI architectures, cloud foundational controls, zero-trust identity models, API and data protections, and secure LLM, RAG, agent, and MCP integrations. Establishes governance, reusable security patterns, model-usage procedures, compliance controls, and audit readiness across AWS and Azure. Advises executives and technical teams, mentors security professionals, and drives secure cloud migrations while addressing AI/ML risks such as adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data drift, bias, and data leakage.

Administers and supports enterprise cybersecurity technologies across a nationwide healthcare network. Responsibilities include security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, identity and access management, endpoint and cloud security, system hardening, backup security, security project implementation, documentation, and collaboration with IT, engineering teams, and managed security providers.

Lead and deliver complex Palo Alto Networks-focused cybersecurity consulting engagements: design security architectures, run workshops and assessments, scope and support pre-sales, develop practice offerings, mentor consultants, and produce thought leadership while ensuring client objectives and quality delivery.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

Lead enterprise AI security architecture, strategy, governance, and secure-by-design implementation across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, software, and AI/ML environments. Design security patterns for LLM hosting, agentic systems, vector databases, and inference endpoints; translate regulatory requirements into technical standards; review complex architectures; implement AI security guardrails and policy enforcement; advise engineering and product teams; and mentor teams while influencing senior stakeholders.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports enterprise security automations, custom tools, integrations, and workflows. Responsibilities include Python-based application and API development, vulnerability enrichment, incident response automation, IAM administration, Linux and Docker platform support, and administration of SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, cloud, network, and other security technologies. The role also troubleshoots integrations, monitors operational health, supports security teams, and maintains resilient, secure configurations across enterprise systems.

Operate and improve cybersecurity tools and processes across cloud, endpoint, identity, application, email, network, data loss prevention, and vulnerability management environments. Respond to alerts and incidents, manage logging and SIEM telemetry, implement security controls aligned with HITRUST, NIST, CIS, HIPAA, and OWASP, support audits, and develop incident response procedures. Collaborate with a Senior Security Engineer and use AI tools to automate security operations.

Lead security architecture for a secure multi-cluster service mesh platform. Design authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encryption, credential lifecycle, and service-to-service trust. Establish secure development patterns, threat modeling, testing, security quality gates, incident response, vulnerability discovery, and compliance practices. Implement and review Go and gRPC security systems, mentor engineers, guide technical direction, and collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams. Requires international travel to the Middle East and geopolitical hot zones up to 25% annually.

Own security and infrastructure for a fintech payments platform, with security comprising roughly two-thirds of the role. Responsibilities include cloud and application security, IAM, secrets management, threat modeling, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance, privacy, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, reliability, backups, disaster recovery, and on-call operations. The role reports to the CTO and will establish the security function as the company’s founding security hire.

Leads global security strategy across manufacturing plant OT/ICS, connected medical products, and application security. Oversees FDA medical device cybersecurity compliance, OT/ICS frameworks, DevSecOps, CI/CD security, and application security tooling. Builds and develops global security teams, partners with executives and operating companies, maintains enterprise risk frameworks, reports security posture to leadership and committees, and travels internationally to manufacturing, R&D, and plant locations.

Designs and governs enterprise identity security architectures using ServiceNow and Veza. Integrates identity governance, authorization visibility, CMDB, IRM, SecOps, and external identity platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Establishes least-privilege, zero-trust, compliance, and identity governance frameworks for human and non-human identities. Leads architecture workshops, solution reviews, client advisory discussions, delivery oversight, troubleshooting, proposals, and technical mentoring.

Leads the architecture, implementation, integration, automation, testing, and optimization of ServiceNow and Veza identity security solutions. Advises clients on identity governance, authorization visibility, access analytics, compliance, and cybersecurity strategy. Conducts workshops, demonstrations, training, troubleshooting, and technical delivery from discovery through deployment. Develops scripts, applications, dashboards, and workflows while mentoring junior staff and supporting proposals, estimates, and sales opportunities.

Supports implementation, configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and optimization of identity security solutions using ServiceNow and Veza. Responsibilities include identity governance, access certification, authorization visibility, workflow automation, dashboards, troubleshooting, client workshops, documentation, product demonstrations, and cybersecurity program integration. The role also supports proposals, training content, client relationships, and identity security program development. Travel may reach 50% based on client needs.

Architect and engineer multi-tenant SIEM, SOAR, EDR, telemetry, and cloud security platforms for managed security services. Build detection content, automate response workflows, optimize log ingestion, and secure customer connectivity. Lead technical discovery, onboarding, security assessments, remediation planning, escalations, solution design, and customer advisory engagements. Create architectures, runbooks, and documentation while shaping the MSSP technology strategy.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.

Designs and implements security controls across cloud platforms, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audits infrastructure for weaknesses, develops security and privacy improvements, performs threat modeling, and drives remediation. The role includes software development, infrastructure security, incident containment, and technical security analysis while collaborating with engineering teams in a distributed startup environment.

Conduct internal and external network, web application, API, mobile, cloud, social engineering, and wireless penetration tests. Advise clients on security and compliance, simulate cyberattacks, generate assessment reports, support engagement scoping and remediation, improve testing methodologies, manage escalations, and mentor junior staff while meeting delivery and utilization targets.

Defines enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, security controls, and multi-year roadmaps across AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Enterprise, AI platforms, and infrastructure. Leads cloud governance, migration, modernization, FinOps, developer platform management, AI governance, and security architecture initiatives. Advises executives, ensures compliance and risk alignment, drives operational excellence, and mentors architects and engineers.

Assess and reduce security risks across AWS infrastructure, applications, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and AI/LLM integrations. Responsibilities include threat modeling, security reviews, integrating SAST/DAST/SCA tools, hardening cloud and Kubernetes environments, automating security and incident-response workflows, and remediating vulnerabilities from scans and bug bounty programs.

Lead pre-sales security architecture engagements by designing and validating defense-in-depth solutions across hybrid, cloud, application, identity, endpoint, network, and data environments. Conduct security assessments, create remediation roadmaps, integrate security platforms, and support DevSecOps, SOC, detection engineering, incident response, compliance, and risk programs. Collaborate with sales, engineering, clients, and executive stakeholders to communicate technical trade-offs and deliver scalable enterprise security strategies.

Leads enterprise cryptography consulting engagements for executives and security leaders. Responsibilities include cryptographic risk assessments, post-quantum readiness, enterprise key management, HSM strategy, PKI architecture, encryption modernization, crypto-agility design, and migration roadmaps. The role develops governance, policies, standards, and risk-based transformation programs aligned with NIST, ISO, and regulatory requirements. It also includes client presentations, executive advisory, thought leadership, cross-functional coordination, workshops, and mentoring.

Designs, implements, and operates SASE and ZTNA architecture across GCCH and commercial environments. Owns identity-driven access controls, session management, telemetry, compliance mapping, dashboards, and audit evidence. Serves as the senior escalation point for incidents, performs root-cause analysis, integrates device posture and SOAR workflows, develops AI-enabled automations, collaborates with identity, network, compliance, and vendors, and mentors junior engineers.