Top Cyber Security Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads technical security engagements involving presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design, and production-ready pilots. Designs and proves Microsoft and third-party cloud security, compliance, privacy, XDR, zero trust, and data protection solutions. Collaborates with sales, consulting, and partner teams, resolves technical and competitive blockers, influences strategy, and guides customer implementations. The role requires strong technical pre-sales or consulting experience and expertise in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.

Lead the technical presales process for Proofpoint’s data security and insider risk solutions. Partner with sales teams, conduct technical discovery, design security architectures, and manage proof-of-concept and production evaluations. Present solutions to customers, support deployments and training, collaborate with Professional Services, Engineering, Product Management, and Support, and provide customer insights to improve products. The role also develops internal documentation, training, and repeatable sales engineering processes.

Lead end-to-end red team and adversary emulation operations across cloud, identity, network, endpoint, hardware, and operational security environments. Develop offensive tooling, implants, and AI-driven autonomous agents for reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation. Serve as a technical lead for customer engagements, brief security executives, collaborate with blue teams and threat intelligence organizations, establish operational standards, and mentor senior operators.

Designs, implements, and manages enterprise IT security solutions. Partners with architects, developers, and leadership on security plans; identifies vulnerabilities; strengthens systems, networks, and applications; manages security tools and access controls; and reduces risks across complex projects.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Designs and delivers enterprise security solutions, including micro-segmentation and security platform deployments. Leads product installation, integration, configuration, optimization, and automation across diverse customer environments. Provides advanced professional services, customer training, and post-sales support while coordinating with cross-functional teams. The role requires expertise in web and API security, bot mitigation, DNS, SIEM integrations, DDoS protection, observability, CI/CD security, compliance standards, and AI application security.

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.

Provides cybersecurity consulting for customers using the Akamai platform. Responsibilities include network integration, security architecture reviews, cloud security strategy, threat modeling, risk assessment, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, API security, security testing, and implementation of cloud and container solutions. The consultant collaborates with account teams, evaluates web architectures, develops long-term security strategies, and contributes to training, best practices, and service quality improvements.

The Senior Security Engineer architects, implements, and supports enterprise security capabilities across vulnerability management, cloud security, identity, endpoint, application security, and security architecture. The role leads security initiatives, resolves complex platform issues, develops automation and AI-assisted workflows, establishes documentation and reporting standards, and mentors security engineers and analysts while partnering across infrastructure, application, network, cloud, and security teams.

Designs and operates controlled cyber-capability evaluations for frontier AI models and agentic systems. Builds vulnerable applications, cyber ranges, exploit-development targets, and evaluation harnesses; runs experiments; collects telemetry; analyzes model behavior and evaluation artifacts; and documents security findings. The role also develops sandboxing, containment, access, and secrets-management controls while collaborating with red-team operators, researchers, engineers, and Responsible AI stakeholders.

Designs, deploys, troubleshoots, and supports enterprise network and security infrastructure, including routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, cloud networking, VPNs, and data center services. The role analyzes operational incidents, implements remediation, maintains documentation, communicates with management, supports roadmap decisions, and participates in on-call rotations. It requires extensive experience with multi-vendor network security technologies, cloud platforms, and customer-facing technical work.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Microsoft's AI Safety Platform, building observability, detection, investigation, threat-hunting, and distributed data-processing capabilities. Design attack detection infrastructure, correlate high-volume telemetry, apply AI security research, conduct security and privacy reviews, and partner across engineering, science, and incident response teams. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for complex AI security systems.

Leads threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and security platform ownership across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, application, and SaaS environments. Designs and operates security controls, automates workflows using scripts and APIs, manages incident response and assessments, improves network security, establishes metrics, and supports compliance with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and financial-services requirements. Mentors junior staff and advises cross-functional teams.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Designs and integrates secure information systems, cloud, and defense architectures; leads federal NIST RMF and ATO processes; implements security controls; performs vulnerability, threat, and risk assessments; advises engineering and program teams; and manages continuous monitoring, compliance, audit, and patch-management activities.

Build and maintain custom security tools, middleware, automation, APIs, integrations, dashboards, and security workflows. Integrate identity, endpoint, SIEM, SaaS, and other security platforms using APIs, cloud services, containers, and CI/CD. Translate security policies into secure, code-driven solutions while supporting SOAR, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Leads technical security sales engagements through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, and customer consultations. Designs secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, and advises customers on Microsoft Security solutions, including Defender and Sentinel. Develops security posture recommendations, supports XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and AI adoption strategies, while influencing technical decisions and representing Microsoft in developer communities.

Owns end-to-end security engineering, including risk identification, secure-by-default libraries, least-privilege guardrails, developer machine hardening, supply-chain security, and identity and authentication protections. Partners with compliance to implement effective controls for healthcare requirements such as HIPAA and HITRUST. The role requires production software engineering and security expertise, with broad autonomy in a fully remote environment.

Designs, implements, maintains, and improves cybersecurity controls across enterprise systems, networks, cloud environments, and applications. Deploys and troubleshoots security technologies, responds to incidents, identifies security requirements, supports audits and change management, documents procedures, analyzes risks, and delivers remediation recommendations. Collaborates with architects, project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to protect organizational data and infrastructure while automating repeatable security tasks.

Leads the strategy, lifecycle, financial performance, positioning, and growth of Arctic Wolf’s Endpoint Security portfolio. The role oversees product expansion, cross-sell opportunities, competitive analysis, M&A integration, and integration with managed security services. It also leads a global product management team, establishes product metrics and operating cadences, and represents endpoint strategy to executives, customers, analysts, and partners.

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.

Staff Security Platform Engineer responsible for backend integrations and policy platform use cases using Golang, MongoDB, Snowflake, and AWS. Owns technical design through delivery, documents decisions, follows testing and deployment practices, reviews code, and provides technical direction to an IC4 engineer. Collaborates closely with customer stakeholders, communicates risks and progress, and ramps quickly on the customer codebase.

Build and maintain backend integrations and policy platform features using Golang, MongoDB, Snowflake, and AWS. Work with customer engineering stakeholders to deliver scoped changes, follow established coding, testing, review, and deployment standards, and communicate progress and blockers. The role requires rapid onboarding, independent execution, and reliable delivery in a fully remote contractor engagement.

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across products and AWS infrastructure, respond to security incidents, close security tickets, integrate security controls into CI/CD, review code and infrastructure, support SOC 2 and CASA compliance, and strengthen access management, secrets handling, and cloud hardening.