Cybersecurity Engineer
Sayers
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain security controls across endpoints, identity systems, networks, applications, and cloud platforms
- Actively identify security gaps, emerging threats, and systemic weaknesses through continuous analysis and investigation
- Engineer and refine security detection, alerting, response, and monitoring capabilities, emphasizing automation and scalability
- Build and maintain security playbooks, standards, procedures, and operational documentation
- Partner with IT and business teams to embed security into daily operations, workflows, and lifecycle processes
- Evaluate and recommend security technologies based on effectiveness, risk reduction, and operational fit
- Leverage automation, scripting, and AI assisted techniques to improve visibility, response time, and threat detection fidelity
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post incident improvement efforts
- Translate complex technical risks into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non technical stakeholders
- Continuously research emerging threats, tools, and defensive techniques, applying learnings back into the environment
Requirements
- At least (5) years experience working inside an enterprise environment, supporting and securing real world end user systems
- Demonstrated progression toward becoming a cybersecurity professional through hands on experience, self directed learning, labs, certifications, research, or personal projects
- Practical experience with enterprise security tooling, operational processes, and layered defense strategies
- Experience collaborating with IT operations, identity, infrastructure, and application teams
- Proven ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and drive initiatives from idea to execution
Benefits
- compelling training and certification opportunities
- career path identification
- coaching and mentoring
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
security controlssecurity detectionincident responseroot cause analysisautomationscriptingthreat detectionsecurity playbooksrisk reductionlayered defense strategies
Soft Skills
collaborationindependenceprioritizationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingadaptabilityinitiativetechnical translationresearch