Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Secure SDLC & Cloud

Cullerton Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 8,817,000 - 14,603,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Health insurance

401k

Holiday pay

Job summary

Cullerton Group is hiring a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen secure-by-design practices across enterprise apps and cloud environments. This role supports secure software development, app security testing and remediation coordination with developers, architects and leaders.

You will enable automated security testing, perform threat modeling, and oversee vulnerabilities across AWS/Azure, APIs and CI/CD workflows, with a focus on secure DevOps integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT or related field with 8+ years security experience (master's +6 years also qualifies).
• Strong expertise in identifying and remediating vulnerabilities per OWASP, CWE/CVE, SANS Top 25.
• Experience with security architecture, threat modeling, risk analysis, defense in depth, IAM and API security.
• Cloud security experience with AWS or Azure.
• Hands-on security automation and scripting experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for non-security audiences.

Responsibilities

• Analyze vulnerabilities from CodeQL, Rapid7, pen tests, bug bounties and other sources.
• Advise teams on secure design, remediation, risk decisions and security reviews.
• Enable automated security testing at repo and app levels (SCA, SAST, DAST).
• Coordinate penetration testing and security assessments; manage findings to remediation.
• Evaluate security risks across AWS/Azure, IaC, APIs and dev workflows.
• Perform threat modeling, risk analysis and defense-in-depth reviews across SDLC.
• Use scripting to improve security processes, monitoring and defect tracking.
• Maintain ownership of applications and collaborate to close security gaps.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability assessment

Security architecture

IAM

API security

Secure SDLC

Scripting/automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/C Cybersecurity/IT

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

CodeQL

Rapid7

SCA

SAST

DAST

Job description

Cullerton Group is hiring a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen secure-by-design practices across enterprise apps and cloud environments. This role supports secure software development, app security testing and remediation coordination with developers, architects and leaders.

You will enable automated security testing, perform threat modeling, and oversee vulnerabilities across AWS/Azure, APIs and CI/CD workflows, with a focus on secure DevOps integration.