Cyber Security Engineer

Goodwin Recruiting; West Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodwin Recruiting is partnering with a growing global organization to hire a Cyber Security Engineer to join its Technology team in the Chicago western suburbs. This hands-on role focuses on protecting enterprise systems, users, applications, and data from evolving threats.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical security experience and the ability to investigate vulnerabilities and threats, coordinating action across multiple Technology teams and communicating risk clearly.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation.
• Experience investigating security alerts and incidents.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender XDR, Cortex, Tenable/Nessus, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of SIEM, security monitoring, incident response, and threat detection.
• Experience coordinating remediation across Technology teams.
• Understanding of identity security including PAM, MFA, or Conditional Access.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; relevant certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess vulnerabilities across enterprise environments.
• Support vulnerability scanning and remediation using Tenable/Nessus or comparable platforms.
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exposure, and business impact.
• Coordinate critical patches and remediation with infrastructure, cloud, application, and support teams.
• Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats and determine potential organizational exposure.
• Investigate security alerts and suspicious activity.
• Work with SIEM, XDR, endpoint-security, and other security-monitoring tools.
• Support incident investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Participate in threat-intelligence and threat-hunting activities.
• Work with technologies such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Cortex, Tenable, and related security platforms.
• Support identity-security controls including PAM, MFA, and Conditional Access.
• Contribute to phishing simulations, security-awareness campaigns, and employee training.
• Support cybersecurity risk assessments, policies, standards, audits, and compliance activities.
• Help improve security monitoring, controls, incident response, and overall cyber resilience.
• Collaborate with Technology and cybersecurity teams across multiple global regions.
• Provide occasional support outside standard business hours when significant cybersecurity threats require immediate investigation or remediation.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Incident response

Threat hunting

SIEM/XDR tools

Identity security (PAM/MFA/Conditional

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/Info Security/CS

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Tenable/Nessus

Microsoft Defender XDR

Cortex

SIEM/EDR security platforms

Job description

We are partnering with a growing global organization to identify an experienced Cyber Security Engineer to join its expanding Technology team in the Chicago western suburbs.

This is a hands-on cybersecurity opportunity focused on protecting enterprise systems, users, applications, and data from evolving threats. The role will work across vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, critical remediation, security awareness, identity security, and cybersecurity risk while collaborating closely with a global cybersecurity team.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical security experience, sound judgment, and the ability to investigate vulnerabilities and threats, determine potential exposure, and coordinate action across multiple Technology teams.

Cyber Security Engineer Responsibilities:

• Monitor and assess vulnerabilities across enterprise environments.
• Support vulnerability scanning and remediation using Tenable/Nessus or comparable platforms.
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exposure, and business impact.
• Coordinate critical patches and remediation with infrastructure, cloud, application, and support teams.
• Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats and determine potential organizational exposure.
• Investigate security alerts and suspicious activity.
• Work with SIEM, XDR, endpoint-security, and other security-monitoring tools.
• Support incident investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Participate in threat-intelligence and threat-hunting activities.
• Work with technologies such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Cortex, Tenable, and related security platforms.
• Support identity-security controls including PAM, MFA, and Conditional Access.
• Contribute to phishing simulations, security-awareness campaigns, and employee training.
• Support cybersecurity risk assessments, policies, standards, audits, and compliance activities.
• Help improve security monitoring, controls, incident response, and overall cyber resilience.
• Collaborate with Technology and cybersecurity teams across multiple global regions.
• Provide occasional support outside standard business hours when significant cybersecurity threats require immediate investigation or remediation.

Cyber Security Engineer Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, ideally within a broader enterprise Technology background.
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation.
• Experience investigating security alerts and incidents.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender XDR, Cortex, Tenable/Nessus, or comparable security platforms.
• Understanding of SIEM, security monitoring, incident response, and threat detection.
• Experience coordinating remediation across Technology teams.
• Understanding of identity security, including PAM, MFA, or Conditional Access.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to communicate cybersecurity risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with threat hunting, security awareness, cloud security, SOAR, digital forensics, or security frameworks is highly valued.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or related field preferred. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications are a plus.

This is an opportunity to join a global Technology organization with an active cybersecurity program and play a direct role in identifying threats, reducing risk, strengthening security controls, and protecting a complex global business.