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Advanced Security Engineer

Illinois💼 Full-time💰 $104,000–$104,000🗓 2026-07-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Investigate and analyze emerging cyber threats against network and infrastructure assets, identities, and clients; provide remediation guidance and drive incident investigations to completion.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (incident response & detection)

Builds

Incident response capabilities, detection engineering, and security posture maturation for a global SaaS platform

Domain

Cybersecurity, incident response, digital forensics, cloud security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Network forensics, memory forensics, packet analysis, TCP/IP, cryptography, web application attack mitigation, alert triage, log correlation, threat intelligence analysis, incident escalation, scripting for security use cases, cloud environment management, malicious code analysis, infection mechanism understanding, exploitation technique mitigation

Preferred skills

GCFA, GCIA, GCIH, GNFA, GREM, OSCP, CEH certifications, SaaS environment experience, legal/e-discovery domain knowledge, Azure/GCP/AWS cloud experience

Technologies

SIEM, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, security audit tools, vulnerability management platforms, cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)

Responsibilities

Review, validate, and triage security alerts and log data; assess impact of security events using host, cloud, and network indicators; act as initial escalation point for cyber events; perform near real-time analysis of correlated logs to classify security incidents; proactively search telemetry to detect advanced threats; assist in developing incident handling policies; conduct continuous research on emerging threats; tune alerting mechanisms; support junior team members in detection engineering; maintain and update security infrastructure tooling

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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