Top Cyber Security Jobs in Peoria, IL

Leads complex security alert triage, incident investigations, threat hunting, detection improvement, and incident response. Develops playbooks, operationalizes threat intelligence, builds automation, and mentors analysts. The role partners with detection engineering to improve security monitoring across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, and application telemetry while raising investigation and documentation standards.

Lead solution sales for Microsoft Security with enterprise customers: identify opportunities, build solutions and business cases, manage senior relationships and pipeline, collaborate with partners and internal teams, forecast and pursue high-potential accounts, and obtain relevant product/role certifications.

Leads RapidFort’s cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and assurance programs. Owns the ISO 27001 ISMS, SOC 2 Type 2, FedRAMP authorization, and CMMC Level 2 programs; directs security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, identity governance, penetration testing, vendor risk, and security architecture. Reports risk to executive leadership and the Audit Committee, manages customer security assurance, oversees a compliance specialist, and serves as incident commander for declared security events.

Build backend services and distributed systems for a cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform. Develop scalable APIs, data pipelines, and platform components handling vulnerability, container, package, runtime, and SBOM data. Work across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments while solving concurrency, performance, reliability, and distributed processing challenges. Own projects from design through deployment, participate in architecture discussions, review code, and collaborate with security researchers and product teams.

Leads AI governance and cybersecurity risk advisory engagements for large, regulated organizations. Advises C-suite executives and boards on AI threats, regulatory requirements, governance operating models, risk assessments, control frameworks, and cyber resilience. Owns complex engagement delivery, client relationships, team leadership, business development, proposals, engagement economics, and practice growth. Develops methodologies, thought leadership, and risk-management solutions covering AI governance, cloud security, identity management, data protection, incident response, and third-party risk.

Build and secure scalable backend services and APIs while debugging, optimizing performance, implementing features, refactoring codebases, and conducting security reviews and penetration testing. The role also involves automated testing, code review, vulnerability assessment, and contributing domain expertise to training next-generation AI systems.

Leads cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance programs, with ownership of third-party cyber risk, customer security assessments, risk exceptions, and the cyber risk register. Manages a geographically distributed team, matures GRC processes, drives automation, partners with internal and external stakeholders, and reports risk trends and recommendations to senior leadership. Requires extensive cybersecurity experience, people leadership, customer-facing skills, and experience building or improving third-party risk capabilities.

Conducts independent cybersecurity assessments of MARAD information systems across authorization, reauthorization, and continuous monitoring activities. Evaluates management, operational, and technical controls under NIST RMF; develops assessment plans, reports, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations; validates evidence and system compliance; supports ATO decisions; enters data into CSAM; and collaborates with federal cybersecurity stakeholders.

Defines and executes enterprise security strategy, roadmaps, governance, and high-priority initiatives. Leads security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, and systemic remediation across products, platforms, and business operations. Influences cross-functional teams without direct authority, establishes secure practices and measurable outcomes, evaluates business and operational tradeoffs, and develops automation, analytics, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve security reviews and risk reduction.

Designs, implements, and operates Azure-native security controls for identity, networking, and workloads. Manages Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel, implements Conditional Access, MFA, and Zero Trust patterns, embeds security into Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, monitors cloud posture, supports incident response, drives remediation, and maintains compliance documentation and metrics. Partners with cloud and infrastructure security teams to ensure secure, resilient, and compliant Azure environments.

The AI Security Consultant will enhance security programs, secure AI systems, engage in technical analysis, and report findings. They will also contribute to thought leadership while ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Leads Carina’s cloud infrastructure, internal IT, cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, and business continuity programs. Oversees AWS platform operations, infrastructure as code, deployment reliability, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, employee technology, identity systems, vendors, budgets, and governance. Advises executives on technology strategy, security posture, operational risk, and investments while partnering with Engineering and Data to provide a secure, reliable technology foundation.

Own technical wins for cybersecurity deals by designing ransomware-recovery, immutable and air-gapped vaulting, identity-resilience, and DSPM architectures. Lead discovery, demos, technical workshops, proof-of-concept pilots, reference architectures, executive presentations, and business cases. Partner with security sales specialists, customers, and technology partners while supporting technical qualification, deal progression, and roadmap feedback.

Lead security engineering for a federal health supply chain and logistics software product line. Own security architecture through authorization, establish engineering standards, assess and remediate complex findings, advise stakeholders on risk, and mentor engineers. The role requires federal security framework expertise, cloud security experience, cross-team remediation leadership, and eligibility for a Public Trust background investigation. Preferred experience includes federal health IT, ATO packages, Kubernetes security, incident response, HIPAA, and Agile or SAFe environments.

Secure federal health IT supply-chain and logistics software by designing and validating application and infrastructure controls, assessing vulnerabilities, driving remediation, embedding security checks into CI/CD pipelines, monitoring security tools, supporting incident response, and translating federal security requirements into implementable technical designs.

Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication.

Deliver generative AI-enabled source code review and application security engagements. Coordinate with leadership, organize resources, refine and present assessment findings, document recommendations, and mentor junior red team members. Support penetration testing projects, including external and web application testing, while managing engagement delivery and improving security assessment technologies and workflows.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

Lead Microsoft's global Security partner strategy to accelerate customer adoption, consumption, and value realization via partner-led motions. Drive strategy, analytics, governance, partner readiness, and cross-functional alignment; generate insights from partner and product data; manage strategic programs and stakeholder communications; mentor team members and continuously optimize partner ecosystem performance.

Manages enterprise information security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. Develops security policies and frameworks, leads data classification and threat modeling, conducts risk assessments, oversees vulnerability remediation, evaluates security controls, supports audits, and prepares risk metrics and executive reports. Partners with technical teams to embed security requirements and promotes governance best practices across the organization.

Protect Air Force modernization efforts by assessing legacy and modernized applications, conducting security audits and risk analyses, implementing RMF, ATO, and cATO processes, authoring security controls and authorization evidence, researching emerging threats, and coaching government engineering teams on secure software development and compliance.

Define and drive Security Operations strategy at the intersection of Identity and AI. Analyze IAM and AI roadmaps, perform threat modeling, build security frameworks for AI-enabled systems and agentic workloads, identify capability gaps, incubate new security approaches, and partner with engineering and security teams to influence long-term direction and operational readiness.