Security Engineer

Reynolds Consumer Products • Lake Forest, IL

8d • $111,000 - $160,950 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We currently have an opportunity for a Security Engineer at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL. In the role of Security Engineer, your duties will involve creating, executing, and upkeeping the security framework for Reynolds Consumer Products. This position demands a comprehensive knowledge of information security and risk management, along with a documented history of crafting and deploying effective security measures. You will work in collaboration with various teams to safeguard our systems and data, ensuring their confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility. Your responsibilities also include partnering with different business units to coordinate with their teams, making certain that our security framework is in line with the highest industry standards and contributes to achieving our business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.
• 6+ years of of experience in information security, with a specific focus on infrastructure security architecture.
• Hands-on experience in managing and securing network and IT infrastructure in a large-scale organization, preferably in the CPG industry.
• Deep understanding of network security architecture, segmentation strategies, and secure network design (LAN/WAN/WLAN).
• Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA), including micro-segmentation and identity-centric access controls.
• Hands-on experience with next-generation firewalls (NGFW), intrusion detection/prevention systems (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 (hub-and-spoke, landing zones, 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.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Ability to explain complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-solving and strategic mindset.
• Willingness to stay abreast of new technologies and continuously update skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple shifting priorities.
• Experience in conducting and analyzing research on a wide range of security issues.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field preferred.
• At least one recognized security certification (CISSP, CISM, CEH, etc.).
• Experience with secure SD-WAN architectures.
• Hands-on exposure to SASE / ZTNA frameworks (e.g., Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Cisco, Netskope).
• Experience designing secure network integrations for OT/ICS environments (if applicable to Reynolds).
• Additional certifications in areas like active directory security, network security, cloud security, or system security.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade security controls across network, cloud, and endpoint environments.
• Engineer solutions that align to RCP’s security standards, policies, and architectural patterns.
• Build secure configurations for firewalls, proxies, IDS/IPS, secure web gateways, and segmentation technologies.
• Engineer and harden cloud security configurations (Azure, AWS, GCP) including identity, workload protection, VM/container security, logging, and network controls.
• Implement and optimize IAM controls such as MFA enforcement, conditional access, identity governance, and privileged access restrictions.
• Integrate cloud telemetry into SIEM/EDR platforms and design detections where needed.
• Strengthen and maintain secure network architectures including segmentation, routing, hybrid connectivity, VPN, and micro-segmentation.
• Engineer security logging pipelines for network appliances, DNS, firewalls, and load balancers to ensure reliable detection coverage.
• Validate and remediate findings from network security assessments and penetration tests.
• Serve as technical owner or co-owner for key platforms such as: Firewalls & IDS/IPS, Secure Web Gateways (SWG), Cloud-native security capabilities.
• Build automations, integrations, dashboards, and health monitoring for security tools.
• Continuously improve the organization’s security posture through configuration hardening, patch alignment, and reducing attack surface in servers, endpoints, OT devices, and cloud workloads.
• Evaluate new security technologies, conduct POCs, 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 to ensure secure deployment pipelines, secure coding patterns, and secure design for new solutions.
• Assist teams in meeting compliance, audit, or regulatory obligations.
• Develop and maintain security standards, baseline configurations, diagrams, runbooks, and engineering playbooks.
• Provide clear technical guidance to IT partners, ensuring consistent adoption of secure practices.

Benefits

• 14% annual incentive provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets their performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior