Cybersecurity Engineer II - Secure Access & IAM

G&W Electric Co.; Romeoville, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Short and Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k)

Vacation

Profit Sharing

Job summary

G&W Electric seeks a Cybersecurity Engineer II to own and advance security technologies across its global enterprise and manufacturing environments. You will translate requirements into scalable solutions, lead complex changes, and manage the lifecycle of network, secure-access, identity, and privileged-access capabilities.

The role reports to the Cybersecurity Lead and acts as an SME, collaborating across global sites to ensure secure connectivity and robust access controls while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in network engineering, systems administration, cybersecurity engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, routing, switching, DNS, VPNs, and network-security architecture.
• Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting enterprise firewalls, secure remote-access solutions, or secure access service edge technologies.
• Experience implementing identity, authentication, privileged-access, or directory-service security controls in enterprise environments.
• Experience leading technical changes through design, testing, implementation, validation, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across networks, identity systems, endpoints, and third-party services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to present options, risks, and recommendations.
• Ability to independently own platforms or technical workstreams while collaborating globally.

Responsibilities

• Own administration, lifecycle planning, and continuous improvement for assigned network-security, VPN, segmentation, and secure remote-access capabilities.
• Design and implement secure connectivity and access-policy solutions, including secure access service edge capabilities.
• Lead implementation and improvement of privileged access management and identity security controls.
• Develop detailed technical designs, configuration standards, implementation plans, test plans, and rollback procedures.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex network, remote-access, authentication, and security-platform issues across vendors and sites.
• Plan and execute platform deployments, upgrades, migrations, and high-impact configuration changes via change-management processes.
• Assess technical control effectiveness, identify gaps, coordinate remediation through to completion.
• Maintain authoritative diagrams, standards, runbooks, configuration records, and engineering documentation.
• Lead defined workstreams, manage dependencies, communicate risks, and provide status.
• Share expertise, perform peer reviews, and provide technical escalation support.

Skills

Network engineering

Cybersecurity engineering

Troubleshooting

Security architecture

Identity security

Privileged access

Change management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CCNA / Security+ / ISC2 SSCP or equivalent certifications

Tools

Enterprise firewalls

Job description

G&W Electric seeks a Cybersecurity Engineer II to own and advance security technologies across its global enterprise and manufacturing environments. You will translate requirements into scalable solutions, lead complex changes, and manage the lifecycle of network, secure-access, identity, and privileged-access capabilities.

The role reports to the Cybersecurity Lead and acts as an SME, collaborating across global sites to ensure secure connectivity and robust access controls while