Top Cyber Security Jobs in Chicago, IL

Conduct advanced vulnerability research across Microsoft products, cloud services, and open-source ecosystems. Develop scalable automation, AI-driven systems, and security tooling for vulnerability discovery and remediation. Lead offensive security assessments, analyze emerging attack techniques, collaborate with engineering and security teams, and publish technical findings influencing large-scale software systems.

Owns the architecture and technical roadmap for the Ping Identity platform. Designs enterprise SSO, MFA, identity governance, application integrations, RBAC and ABAC frameworks, lifecycle management, and cloud or hybrid deployments. Leads migration and multi-region availability strategies while producing architecture designs, solution blueprints, integration standards, and audit-ready runbooks.

Designs, deploys, configures, migrates, and troubleshoots Palo Alto Networks security infrastructure in customer environments. Responsibilities include firewall, Panorama, Prisma, Strata Cloud Manager, and GlobalProtect implementation; migration from legacy platforms; routing and switching support; change-window execution; technical design and migration documentation; post-deployment stabilization; and communication with customers, account teams, and engineering. Travel to customer sites and evening, overnight, or weekend maintenance windows may be required.

Supports the deployment, configuration, integration, testing, migration, and troubleshooting of Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and other network security technologies for enterprise customers. Assists consultants with customer discovery, design workshops, implementation activities, technical documentation, and solution validation. Communicates technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders while developing expertise in cybersecurity consulting, firewalls, networking, SASE, and cloud security.

Lead software security for Cisco’s IT and Enterprise Operations portfolio. The role owns security posture, threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, AI and LLM security, risk-based remediation, security metrics, and release risk reporting. It partners with engineering, product, and IT leadership to drive security outcomes without direct authority, coordinate security subject-matter experts, and reduce security debt across cloud-native applications and enterprise platforms.

Oversee the security of firm applications, networks, systems, hardware, and mobile devices throughout their lifecycles. Develop security requirements and architecture, manage controls and configurations, perform certification and accreditation, maintain asset inventories, and ensure secure development and acquisition practices. Collaborate across departments and mentor team members while serving as a primary technical security contact. The role requires independent judgment, strong analytical ability, knowledge of security frameworks and technologies, and at least seven years of related experience.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise security solutions; operates EDR, SIEM, web application firewall, and vulnerability-scanning tools; advances Zero Trust maturity; integrates security into DevSecOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code processes; addresses vulnerabilities and security gaps; develops security performance dashboards; and validates system designs against requirements.

Lead applied research on agentic AI for cybersecurity: develop efficient post-trained models, agent designs, and rigorous evaluation/verification. Partner with security teams to translate research into products, run experiments, and publish novel techniques.

Secure Windows products and devices through offensive security research, code and design reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability discovery, fuzzing, and mitigation development. Build reusable security review tools, identify vulnerabilities in operating system features and native applications, collaborate with Windows engineering teams on durable defenses, engage security researchers, and communicate the business value of security investments.

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.

Build and deploy highly reliable endpoint security agents for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Lead technical execution, system design, architecture documentation, code quality, performance, and reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Security, and DevOps teams. The role requires strong systems programming, operating system internals, cybersecurity, threat detection, security data processing, and technical leadership experience.

Designs and advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.

Leads enterprise information security architecture strategy and design across network, application, data, identity, on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Assesses risks, develops mitigation strategies, integrates advanced security technologies, automates security capabilities, and establishes identity and access management best practices. Influences stakeholders, drives organizational change, mentors technical teams, and ensures security initiatives align with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Leads information security architecture and program initiatives across IT and business projects. Provides security consulting, develops enterprise data, network, and application protection requirements, conducts threat analysis, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and remediation planning. Researches emerging threats and technologies, supports control testing and incident response, and guides security team members. Requires extensive information security leadership, application and network security expertise, secure architecture knowledge, and strong communication skills.

Leads account-level cybersecurity strategies and technical customer engagements for secure cloud, data, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include security architecture, solution design, demonstrations, workshops, pilots, technical validation, AI security guidance, stakeholder orchestration, Microsoft Security platform adoption, and measurable outcomes. The role partners with executives, security teams, Microsoft specialists, engineering, and customers to drive secure deployment, operational improvements, risk reduction, and platform expansion.

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.

Leads and coordinates MultiCare’s information security program, protecting internal IT, e-commerce, web, and cloud systems. Responsibilities include defining security policies and standards, deploying technical controls, strengthening cyber resilience, evaluating emerging security technologies, assessing threats and business impact, implementing incident detection and alerting strategies, designing breach countermeasures, and ensuring compliance with security regulations and privacy laws.

Lead technical presales engagements for Microsoft security solutions, including Entra, Purview, Defender, and Sentinel. Deliver discovery sessions, demonstrations, whiteboarding, solution designs, and proof-of-concept efforts. Build competitive strategies, resolve technical blockers, guide customer decisions, collaborate with partners and deployment teams, and help existing customers optimize security product usage. Embed governance, security, and compliance into customer engagements while quantifying business value and supporting sales targets.

Leads and develops a team of security solution engineers supporting manufacturing and mobility customers. Oversees technical sales strategy, integrated cloud-to-edge security architecture design, demonstrations, pilots, proofs of concept, standards adoption, capacity planning, and partner alliances. The role requires expertise in cybersecurity, security architecture, cloud and hybrid environments, Zero Trust, threat protection, data protection, and technical pre-sales, along with people management experience.

Designs and implements secure cloud architectures, IL5 controls, STIG-aligned hardening baselines, identity integrations, and cybersecurity controls for federal and DoD-aligned platforms. Performs security assessments, vulnerability analysis, continuous monitoring, secure deployment reviews, audit support, and remediation planning. Requires expertise in AWS, NIST, RMF, PKI, SIEM, and cloud security, along with mentoring junior engineers and documenting technical architectures. The role is fully remote but requires an active Top Secret clearance and substantial security engineering experience.

The Senior IT Security Engineer strengthens cybersecurity across architecture reviews, AI and emerging technology assessments, IAM governance, vulnerability management, third-party risk, security assurance, incident response, phishing simulations, automation, and regulatory compliance. The role validates security controls, supports remediation, develops risk metrics and reporting, oversees identity platforms, and partners with technology, business, audit, compliance, procurement, and vendors in a regulated banking environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and operation of information security controls across systems, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include SIEM/MDR, EDR/XDR, SOAR, vulnerability management, PAM, Zero Trust, incident response, data protection, DLP, and cloud security. The role collaborates with IT, Privacy, Compliance, and application teams, mentors engineers, supports security architecture and SDLC practices, and may provide periodic on-call incident response support.

Build Ent’s endpoint data-protection layer for classifying sensitive data, tracing provenance, and enforcing egress policies across devices, applications, networks, removable media, browsers, and AI tools. Develop cross-platform interception and content inspection capabilities, integrate on-device language models, optimize performance, produce forensic evidence, investigate compatibility issues, and improve detection precision for enterprise customers.

Designs, deploys, and supports enterprise network security systems, including BGP routing, DDoS mitigation, cloud network security, and WAF solutions. Leads security engineering initiatives, defines requirements, manages technical risks and vulnerabilities, develops test plans, reports metrics, collaborates with stakeholders, resolves complex security issues, and mentors team members.