Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Summary
Our client, is looking for a highly experienced Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, responsible for leading advanced cybersecurity operations focused on incident response, cyber recovery, and forensic investigation. This role plays a critical part in designing and executing secure clean and recovery room environments, enabling rapid and trustworthy recovery from cyber incidents, and conducting forensic analysis to support containment, eradication, and legal/compliance actions. The ideal candidate possesses robust analytical skills and a track record of assisting in the environmentally hardening of systems. Travel may be required.


Core Responsibilities

• Focus on cyber resiliency and recovery, not traditional SOC operations
• Own initiatives with minimal direction and have experience responding to sophisticated cyber incidents
• Investigate, recover, remediate, and improve environments-not someone whose experience is primarily monitoring and escalating alerts
• Use extensive information security implementation and support experience to analyze, evaluate, design, develop, implement, and support Information Security technology solutions
• Ensure that the IT infrastructure, including the network perimeter is protected, investigates security breaches and threats and recommends changes to address security issues
• Recommend and implement new standards and procedures for existing security systems
• Lead and/or support the security governance functions related to the supported technologies

Required Skills/Experience (Must-Haves)

• Ransomware response & recovery
• Cyber Senior resiliency
• Clean room / recovery room environments
• Incident investigation
• Digital forensics
• Environment remediation

Preferred Skills/Experience (Nice-to-Haves)

• Purple Teaming
• Penetration Testing
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• Manufacturing industry experience

Key Competencies & Behaviors

• Takes Ownership
• Thinks Analytically
• Drives Resiliency

Work Environment

• Location: Chicago, IL (downtown)
• Hybrid, 3 days a week onsite
• Permanent full time

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: The approximate pay range for this position is between $112,000 and $160,000. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to background, knowledge, skills, and location. We comply with local wage minimums.
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)
• 401K offered

About KellyMitchell
At KellyMitchell, our culture is world class. We're movers and shakers! We don't mind a bit of friendly competition, and we reward hard work with unlimited potential for growth. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company known for innovative solutions and unsurpassed customer service. We're passionate about helping companies solve their biggest IT staffing & project solutions challenges. As an employee-owned, women-led organization serving Fortune 500 companies nationwide, we deliver expert service at a moment's notice.


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