Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - 846

DSM-H Consulting; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

DSM-H Consulting in Chicago is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to shape Security by Design, oversee secure SDLC, and secure cloud environments (AWS/Azure). Open to Peoria, IL and Dallas, TX.

You will partner with development teams to identify risks, guide remediation, and drive DevOps-aligned security practices, including IaC scanning and security testing. This role emphasizes agile delivery and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 8+ years in information security.
• Master’s degree must have 6+ years’ experience.
• Experience with OWASP, CWE/CVE, SANS 25.

Aufgaben

• Security defect management with tooling and collaboration.
• Engineering consulting to software engineers, architects, product owners, and leaders.
• Tool enablement of CodeQL, Rapid7, and related tooling.
• Security test onboarding and management for assessments.

Kenntnisse

Security engineering

DevOps integration

Vulnerability mgmt

CodeQL tooling

Threat modeling

SDLC security

Identity access

API security

SCA/SAST/DAST

Cloud security

Security certifications

Java

Python

JS

Automation

AI fluency

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree

Tools

CodeQL

Rapid7

Jobbeschreibung

Open to Peoria, IL and Dallas, TX as well

Position’s Contributions to Work Group

As a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be responsible for understanding and contributing to Security by Design practices, secure application software development lifecycle practices, security testing and assessment, and the integration of Security with DevOps. This role is responsible for security engineering of the cloud (AWS, Azure) environments and vulnerability management of both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and application development (SAST/DAST). Engineers will spend their time helping development teams identify and track security risks to remediation while embracing concepts of agile delivery and DevOps.

Typical task breakdown

• Security Defect Management - Analyzing, validating, communicating, and consulting on security defects identified by both automated and manual sources such as CodeQL, Rapid7 Web Application Security, penetration testing, bug bounty, etc. In other words, our security engineers are partners to software engineers who require accurate information on why a vulnerability exists and what they can do about it.
• Engineering Consulting – Serving as a “best friend” to software engineers, architects, product owners, and leaders, provide contextually-aware guidance to help these groups make good decisions, document those decisions and resulting architectures, and navigate relevant review & approval processes (where necessary) when implementing new features and remediating existing issues.
• Tool Enablement - Enabling and monitoring automated defect detection tooling (CodeQL, Rapid7, etc.) at the repository or application level according to established process.
• Security Test Onboarding & Management – Collecting and communicating required scope and access information for penetration testing and security assurance assessments, as well as handling the output of these assessments via our Defect Management Process.

Interaction with team

• Accountable for a dedicated set of applications to work directly with development teams. Part of a larger security engineering team that sets standards and ways of working for interacting with development teams.
• Security Engineers will help development teams identify security gaps in their applications and services and assist in coming up with solutions to close those gaps and make services compliant to enterprise security requirements.

Education & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 8+ or more years in information security
• Master’s Degree must have 6+ years’ experience

Technical Skills (Required)

• Application security expertise understanding vulnerabilities and remediation solutions (OWASP, CWE/CVE, SANS 25)
  • Enterprise security architecture
  • Threat modeling
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • SDLC and product development processes
  • Identity and access management
  • API security
  • SCA/SAST/DAST
• Cloud security experience with MS Azure and/or AWS
• Professional certification (CISSP, CCSP, GWAPT, GWEB, AWS SA / Certified Security, etc.)
• Development experience (Java, Python, .Net, JS, or equivalent)
• Implementation of automation and scripting
• AI Fluency is preferred.
• Web services security Desired: Professional information security certification (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GISCP, GWAPT, GWEB etc) ; Strong understanding and experience with information security technologies

Soft Skills (Required)

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills; demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical security concepts to non-security audiences
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams in accomplishing process review and improvement