Lead Security Engineer - IR & Vulnerability Ops

Request Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Request Technology, LLC in Chicago, IL is seeking a Lead Security Engineer – IR and Vulnerability Management to lead incident response and drive security monitoring across on-prem and cloud. You will coordinate investigations, implement playbooks, and oversee data preservation for forensics and post-incident analysis.

The role requires 5+ years in security operations, hands-on expertise with threat analysis, forensics, vulnerability tooling (Qualys, Nessus, Splunk, CrowdStrike), and strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hands-on security operations.
• Experience with threat analysis, incident response, and multi-domain security.
• Familiarity with network exploitation and financial services context.
• Experience deploying security platforms and vulnerability assessment tools.
• Scripting and API usage to integrate security monitoring tools; knowledge of Generative AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead cyber security incident responders in response activities.
• Oversee technical analysis of security events with internal and external teams.
• Ensure and oversee data collection and preservation for incident response activities.
• Prioritize and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities.
• Lead remediation efforts for identified gaps.
• Develop security monitoring roadmaps for cloud-hosted solutions and SaaS.
• Serve as SME on security tools including appliances, hosted systems, and SaaS.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Cyber threat analysis

Application security

OS security

Networking

Scripting/APIs

Generative AI awareness

Threat actor capabilities

Cryptographic controls

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Symantec DLP

Qualys

Nessus

nmap

tcpdump

EDR

Web Application Firewall

Job description

Request Technology, LLC in Chicago, IL is seeking a Lead Security Engineer – IR and Vulnerability Management to lead incident response and drive security monitoring across on-prem and cloud. You will coordinate investigations, implement playbooks, and oversee data preservation for forensics and post-incident analysis.

The role requires 5+ years in security operations, hands-on expertise with threat analysis, forensics, vulnerability tooling (Qualys, Nessus, Splunk, CrowdStrike), and strong