Security Engineer

Reynolds Consumer Products LLC•Lake Forest, IL

5d•$111,000 - $160,950•Onsite

About The Position

Reynolds Consumer Products is hiring a Security Engineer at its Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois. The role creates, implements, and maintains the company’s security framework, working across teams to protect systems and data and support business objectives. The Security Engineer designs and operates security controls across network, cloud, and endpoint environments; engineers cloud and identity security; strengthens network and infrastructure security; and owns or co-owns security platforms. The position also improves threat prevention and hardening, partners with Cyber Defense, Infrastructure, and Application teams, supports compliance and audit obligations, and maintains security standards, configurations, diagrams, runbooks, and playbooks. The role calls for a comprehensive understanding of information security, risk management, and infrastructure security architecture. It also requires the ability to communicate technical guidance to diverse stakeholders, manage shifting priorities, and continuously develop technical skills. The position is eligible for a 14% annual incentive if business and individual performance goals are met, subject to plan administration guidelines.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
At least 6 years of information security experience, specifically focused on infrastructure security architecture.
Hands-on experience managing and securing network and IT infrastructure in a large-scale organization; CPG industry experience is preferred.
Deep understanding of network security architecture, segmentation strategies, and secure LAN/WAN/WLAN design.
Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Architecture, including micro-segmentation and identity-centric access controls.
Hands-on experience with next-generation firewalls, IDS/IPS, and secure web gateways.
Expertise in remote access solutions and secure connectivity for hybrid cloud environments.
Experience designing and reviewing secure network topologies for data centers, cloud environments, and hybrid networks.
Strong understanding of cloud-native security models, shared responsibility, and secure design patterns such as hub-and-spoke, landing zones, and hybrid connectivity.
Knowledge of cloud network security, including VPC/VNet architecture, routing, private endpoints, peering, load balancers, API gateways, WAFs, and cloud-native firewalls.
Strong leadership and project management skills, along with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Ability to explain complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Problem-solving ability and a strategic mindset.
Willingness to stay current with new technologies and continuously update skills.
Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple shifting priorities.
Experience conducting and analyzing research on a wide range of security issues.

Nice To Haves

At least one recognized security certification, such as CISSP, CISM, or CEH.
Experience with secure SD-WAN architectures.
Hands-on exposure to SASE/ZTNA frameworks such as Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Cisco, or Netskope.
Experience designing secure network integrations for OT/ICS environments, if applicable to Reynolds.
Additional certifications in areas such as Active Directory security, network security, cloud security, or system security.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise security controls across network, cloud, and endpoint environments.
Engineer security solutions aligned with company security standards, policies, and architectural patterns.
Configure firewalls, proxies, IDS/IPS, secure web gateways, and segmentation technologies.
Harden cloud security configurations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including identity, workload protection, VM and container security, logging, and network controls.
Implement and optimize identity and access management controls, including MFA, conditional access, identity governance, and privileged access restrictions.
Integrate cloud telemetry into SIEM/EDR platforms and design detections as needed.
Strengthen network architectures, including segmentation, routing, hybrid connectivity, VPN, and micro-segmentation.
Engineer security logging pipelines for network appliances, DNS, firewalls, and load balancers to support detection coverage.
Validate and remediate findings from network security assessments and penetration tests.
Serve as technical owner or co-owner for security platforms, including firewalls and IDS/IPS, secure web gateways, and cloud-native security capabilities.
Build automations, integrations, dashboards, and health monitoring for security tools.
Improve security posture through configuration hardening, patch alignment, and attack-surface reduction across servers, endpoints, OT devices, and cloud workloads.
Evaluate security technologies, conduct proofs of concept, and make recommendations based on business needs and threat trends.
Partner with Cyber Defense to tune detections, improve telemetry quality, and address detection gaps.
Work with Infrastructure and Application teams on secure deployment pipelines, secure coding patterns, and secure design for new solutions.
Assist teams with compliance, audit, and regulatory obligations.
Develop and maintain security standards, baseline configurations, diagrams, runbooks, and engineering playbooks.
Provide technical guidance to IT partners to encourage consistent adoption of secure practices.