Senior Security Engineer

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in IT security, cybersecurity engineering, or security administration.
• Hands-on experience securing and administering cloud environments, including networking, storage, infrastructure, and platform services.
• Experience establishing, reviewing, and maintaining secure configuration baselines for servers, endpoints, network devices, cloud resources, and security tools.
• Knowledge of NIST security frameworks and publications, including NIST SP 800-53 and configuration management controls.
• Experience monitoring security alerts, investigating suspicious activity, identifying security misconfigurations, and supporting remediation.
• Ability to conduct security configuration reviews, identify vulnerabilities and compliance gaps, assess risks, and recommend corrective actions.
• Experience reviewing system changes, validating security configurations, documenting exceptions, and ensuring compliance with security policies and standards.
• Experience administering and monitoring email security solutions, including anti-phishing, anti-spam, malware protection, and email security policies.
• Ability to document security standards, procedures, configuration changes, assessment findings, and remediation plans, and to coordinate with infrastructure, application, and security teams.
• Only W2 candidates are eligible; third-party and C2C candidates will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Research, plan, install, implement, configure, document, maintain, and coordinate hardware, software, and operating systems across specified platforms.
• Develop integrations between systems and applications and serve as a designated lead worker.
• Provide installation, configuration, training, diagnostic, and administrative support for security solutions, including standalone and SaaS solutions.
• Set up, configure, and maintain on-premises and cloud-based security solutions.
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud security controls across infrastructure, storage, networking, identity, and platform services, and support secure cloud platform administration.
• Work with infrastructure and application teams to incorporate security requirements into cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, and operational processes.
• Configure and monitor security solutions to detect and respond to cloud security alerts, suspicious activity, indicators of attack, and misconfigurations.
• Conduct security assessments, technical reviews, and risk analyses for cloud services, architectures, and proposed changes.
• Align configuration management practices with applicable NIST frameworks and publications.
• Review system configurations against approved baselines, security standards, and organizational requirements; monitor configuration changes through request, review, approval, documentation, testing, and implementation.
• Coordinate remediation of non-compliant or unauthorized configurations with system owners, administrators, and security personnel.
• Establish, maintain, and improve secure configuration standards for agency information systems, endpoints, servers, network devices, cloud resources, and security tools.
• Help ensure systems meet approved security baselines, policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices, and collaborate with IT teams on configuration governance and technical control validation.
• Administer, monitor, and maintain agency email security systems and controls, coordinating with IT, security, and clients to support secure, reliable, and compliant email operations.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Hardware
• Support
• Network
• Security

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We are DivIHN, pronounced divine, a CMMI ML3-certified technology and talent solutions firm founded in 2002. We provide professional consulting, custom projects, and professional resource augmentation to clients in the Midwest and beyond, guided by standardization, specialization, and collaboration. This Senior Security Engineer opportunity is with the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State in Springfield, Illinois. It is an onsite, 3–6 month contract with the possibility of contract-to-hire, working 37.5 hours per week at 7.5 hours per day. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against employees or qualified applicants on the basis of protected characteristics.

last updated 43 week of 2026