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Client Platforms Security Engineer

DRW
🇺🇸ChicagoMediorFull-time$150k–$200kPosted May 26, 2026

About the Role

Work with the security team to ensure that client platform infrastructure, virtual or physical, is properly protected. Engineer, maintain and implement security controls and audit configurations in a hybrid compute environment, reducing risk footprint across the infrastructure without impacting its effectiveness.

  • Maintain security tools and their associated configurations
  • Manage and coordinate updates of tools when new versions are released
  • Work with platform teams to deploy tools and changes after validating performance and functionality requirements
  • Identify and test market solutions for viability in the environment
  • Work with platform teams to ensure OS builds are hardened
  • Identify and document ways to measure effectiveness of client platform controls
  • Assess risk in client platform environment and provide mitigations
  • Identify process improvements for automation of security hardening checks
  • Work with operations teams to ensure identified risks are triaged, investigated, and remediated

Requirements

  • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience required
  • Scripting/Development experience in any high-level language with the desire to build upon that repertoire
  • Experience maintaining client OS platforms (e.g Windows, Linux, MacOS) in a physical and virtual world
  • Understanding of network fundamentals and protocols
  • Deep technical understanding of client OS platforms (e.g Windows, Linux, MacOS). Mobile OS platforms a plus (e.g. iOS, Android, etc)
  • Experience with endpoint security suites and frameworks (e.g. Anti-Virus, EDR/XDR, execution flow control, etc)
  • Strong, demonstrable experience in Cybersecurity engineering, design, implementation and documentation
  • Experience with leading SOAR and SIEM solutions

What You'll Get

  • $150k–$200k base salary
  • Group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
  • 401k (with discretionary employer match)
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Health savings accounts
  • Flexible spending accounts