48 security operations engineer jobs at 42 companies in Chicago, IL
Security Operations Engineer
Atlanta or Omaha or Minneapolis or Lake Forest or Nashville +3 more
HybridFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years security operations or detection engineering; hands-on SIEM detection tuning (Sentinel preferred); SOAR playbook building; KQL fluency; Python or PowerShell scripting; REST API integration; self-directed.
Microsoft Sentinel, KQL, Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Azure, AKS, SOAR, Logic Apps, Defender
Security Engineer II - Cyber Operations
Skokie or Warrenville or Arlington Heights
$48-$74/hr HybridFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent in technical discipline; 3+ years mid-level cybersecurity experience; experience leading security projects; healthcare IT/security experience; industry-recognized security certification; on-call rotation; local travel to corporate sites.
Microsoft Purview, ServiceNow, SOAR
Lead Cyber Security Engineer 1 - Nuclear
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$118k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBS in engineering from ABET-accredited program or equivalent; 10+ years design engineering for process control systems; expertise in nuclear cyber security; understanding of networks and cyber security operations; no work authorization sponsorship.
Security Engineer II
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$145k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3-5 years in cybersecurity or security engineering; experience with SIEM, EDR, cloud security (Azure/AWS/GCP), incident response, threat hunting, scripting (PowerShell/Python), and security operations frameworks.
MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM, EDR, MFA, Microsoft 365, PowerShell, Python, Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR (Phantom), Tines, Torq, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, DLP, CASB, Azure, AWS, GCP, Windows, Linux, macOS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS
Senior Security Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$135k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's degree in technology or applicable experience; 8+ years information security operations; 5+ years cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and O365; 5+ years security identity operations; 3+ years operational process efficiency; expertise in SAML, OID, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, Active Directory, MS Entra ID, Okta; KQL/SPL, PowerShell, Python, shel...
AWS, GCP, Azure, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, MS Entra ID, SailPoint, Okta, OneLogin, LastPass, Keeper, Delinia, KQL, SPL, PowerShell, Python, shell scripting
Security Automation Engineer
Chicago or Reston or Crum Lynne
$113k-$188k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOERequires 10+ years in security or software engineering, production Python, SOAR platforms, LLM agent and prompt design, REST APIs, SOC operations, incident response, MITRE ATT&CK, Git, testing, and CI/CD.
Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Tines, Torq, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, MITRE ATT&CK, Python, REST APIs, JSON, OAuth, Git, Software Development Kits, ServiceNow, FastAPI, Flask, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk Enterprise Security, Search Processing Language, HSA, FSA, Care@Work, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Network Security Engineer
Woodridge, Illinois, United States
HybridFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity or equivalent experience; 3-5 years in network security, security operations, or incident response; knowledge of Cisco, Palo Alto, Windows/Linux security, SIEM, EDR, and SOC triage; Python or PowerShell scripting.
Cisco, Palo Alto, Windows, Linux, SIEM, EDR, Splunk, Python, PowerShell, WebEx, Slack
Security & Threat Operations Manager
New York City or Chicago or Austin or Dallas or Denver or Miami or San Francisco or Seattle
$200k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE3+ Mgmt8+ years security operations, detection engineering, or incident response; 3+ years managing technical teams; experience as Incident Commander; hands-on threat intelligence, SIEM, endpoint analytics; scripting in Python or SQL; AWS, Kubernetes, API security; U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.
AWS, Kubernetes, Python, SQL, SIEM, DLP, WAF
Sr. Security Engineer - Cloud Threat Detection
Charlotte or Columbus or Hartford or Chicago
$128k-$193k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years of cybersecurity experience, hands-on AWS and GCP security operations, enterprise SIEM detection engineering, cloud telemetry analysis, documentation, and SOC analyst mentoring.
AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, AWS VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, Google Security Command Center (SCC), Google Cloud Audit Logs, Google Cloud Logging, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Orca, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Splunk, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Cortex XSIAM, MITRE ATT&CK, Python, PowerShell, Bash, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender XDR for Endpoint, SPL, SOAR
IT Operations Engineer
Bengaluru or San Francisco or Chicago or Arizona or California or District of Columbia or Delaware or Florida or Georgia or Hawaii or Iowa or Illinois or Indiana or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or North Carolina or New Hampshire or New Jersey or Nevada or Ohio or Oregon or South Carolina or Texas or Tennessee or Utah or Virginia or Washington or West Virginia or Wyoming
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOERequires an associate degree or technical trade training, 5–7 years in IT Operations or DevSecOps, 3+ years administering Microsoft Entra, SaaS, network, security, and compliance environments.
Microsoft Entra, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Greenhouse, Microsoft 365, Slack, Iru MDM, Cisco Meraki, FortiGate, Avigilon, SIEM, Atlassian, Intune, RBAC, VPN, VPC, LAN, WAN
Senior Network and Security Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$60k-$105k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor’s degree, 5+ years in network engineering and data center operations, enterprise networking expertise, Cisco and security device experience, and preferred VMware NSX and Cisco certifications.
VMware NSX, Cisco, Dell, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, ISE, WLC, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VXLAN, EVPN, STP, RSTP, MSTP, LACP, Port Channel, MPLS, IPsec, SSL VPN, SIEM, HSRP, VRRP, LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, TCP/IP
Associate Principal, Security Engineering
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$123k-$200k/yr HybridFull Time
Expertise with HashiCorp Vault and privileged access systems, security engineering or operations experience, cloud and CI/CD knowledge, scripting, security architecture, and AI coding agent experience.
CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, PKI, Active Directory, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, AWS IAM, App Role, Kubernetes (k8s), LDAPS, Kerberos, Certificate, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GoLang, Bash, Python, PowerShell, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI
Senior Lead, Security Engineering and Operations
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$115k-$195k/yr OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years in IT/cybersecurity/cloud/network security; hands-on SSE/SASE platform experience; networking fundamentals; vulnerability management; scripting (Python, PowerShell); identity integration; regulated environment experience; U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.
ServiceNow, Python, PowerShell, REST, JSON, SAML, OIDC, Entra ID, Terraform
Security Administrator
Rosemont or Lincoln or Des Moines or Baton Rouge or Cedar Rapids
$100k-$125k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOEHands-on security administrator to operate and harden controls across Microsoft Azure/Entra/M365, perform incident response, identity/access hardening, cloud security engineering, automation and IaC; 7+ IT years, 3+ cybersecurity, 4+ Microsoft tech years.
Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Intune, Logic Apps, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, ARM, Terraform, Key Vault
Chicago - Director, Information Security
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$240k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's degree required; 8+ years cybersecurity experience with security operations and engineering; 5+ years security leadership; must be local and onsite 3-4 days/week; expertise in SIEM, EDR/NGAV, SOAR, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, DLP, cloud security.
SIEM, EDR/NGAV, SOAR, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, DLP, Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, Harvey AI
Regional Building Technologies and OT Operations Specialist
New York City or Chicago
$157k-$227k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Building Systems, Controls Engineering or equivalent; 8+ years operating/managing/securing building automation or OT across multi-facility portfolios; experience with OT cybersecurity controls, IFM partners, and building control protocols.
BACnet, Modbus, LonWorks, MQTT
Cloud AI Engineer, Lead
Lincolnshire or Holtsville
$97k-$145k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree,5+ years operations-style experience,expertise with Google Gemini Enterprise and ADK,multi-cloud GenAI platform experience (GCP,Azure,OpenAI,Anthropic),LLM/RAG knowledge,Kubernetes/Docker/CI/CD experience,Python scripting,cloud security and RBAC integration.
Google Gemini Enterprise, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Kubernetes (GKE/AKS), Docker, CI/CD, Python, PII masking, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Systems Engineer - Secure Computing and Operations
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$94k-$105k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science, telecommunications or related field (or equivalent experience); 3+ years voice engineering and telecommunications experience; deep knowledge of VoIP protocols; experience with Cisco and Microsoft Teams Phone systems; U.S. work authorization required.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Expressways, Cisco Unity, Cisco UCCX, Cisco Emergency Responder, Microsoft Teams Phone System, Voxco, Wireshark, Netscout, Cisco Real Time Monitoring Tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Server Manager, IIS Manager, PowerShell, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Detection & Response Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$120k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or security engineering; hands-on Datadog Cloud SIEM experience; automation orchestration; MITRE ATT&CK knowledge; ability to work independently.
Datadog, MITRE ATT&CK, CI/CD
Senior Manager - Blockchain Security & Digital Asset Infrastructure
New York or Charlotte or Chicago or St. Louis or Boston
$150k-$344k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's in a technical field and 8+ years in cybersecurity, systems engineering, blockchain security or cryptographic research; hands-on custody and key-management experience; expertise in blockchain protocols, cryptography, incident response, and AI-enabled threat analysis.
Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightning Network, EVM, SHA-256, Keccak, ECDSA, Schnorr, Linux, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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