Senior Cyber Security Specialist II

Walgreens•Deerfield, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role supports Walgreens’ Threat Detection and Response function, with a focus on leading complex security investigations, advancing enterprise detection capabilities, and improving incident response effectiveness across hybrid environments. As a senior-level individual contributor, you will serve as a technical escalation point for high-impact and complex security incidents, owning investigations end to end from triage through root cause analysis, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvement. This role requires deep hands-on expertise, strong judgment, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous and time-sensitive situations. You will help shape detection strategy by building and tuning detection logic, proactively hunting for threats, and using automation to improve response speed, consistency, and scalability. This work spans hybrid infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, identity systems, endpoints, and enterprise platforms, using log analysis, behavioral signals, threat intelligence, and attacker TTPs to identify and mitigate risk. Success in this role requires the ability to take ownership, make sound decisions under pressure, and independently drive outcomes across complex security scenarios. The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically strong, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and able to influence improvements that strengthen Walgreens’ overall security posture. Location Requirement: This is a hybrid role based in Deerfield, IL, with 4 days onsite and 1 day remote. Work Authorization: Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of Information/Cyber Security experience OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 7 years of Information/Cyber Security experience
Experience presenting to and interacting with the Executive level.
At least 4 years of Cyber Security experience in at least three of the following: Active threat hunting (open source or commercial tooling), Intrusion analysis, Managed or enterprise information security services, Incident response, Endpoint forensics (Windows, MAC, or Linux), Malware analysis, Penetration testing, Network defense, Threat hunting, Information security consulting
Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and tuning detection logic across enterprise and cloud environments
Leading complex incident response efforts and driving investigations through resolution
Conducting proactive threat hunting and converting findings into actionable detections
Developing automation to improve detection, enrichment, triage, and response workflows
Partnering with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business teams to improve logging, telemetry, and observability
Identifying gaps in detection coverage, tooling, processes, and response procedures, and driving improvements
Providing technical guidance, mentoring team members, and contributing to overall team capability through knowledge sharing, documentation, and tabletop exercises
Communicating technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership when needed
Leads threat detection by identifying threats at the first phase of an attack or compromise.
Detects threat actor activity including exploitation and risk to critical systems.
Monitors specific cyber threat actors to understand their tactics and techniques.
Utilizes data analysis, threat intelligence and cutting-edge security technologies to find unusual behavior and malicious activity.
Leads the hunt for hidden and unidentified threats to the organization’s cyber environment.
Tracks down the malicious agents who are already in a network and removes them from the environment once discovered.
Works with security monitoring tools such as firewalls, data loss prevention, network intrusion detection and antivirus software.
Uses a hypothesis-driven approach and behavioral analysis to uncover connections and correlations between potential cyber threats.
Reviews audit logs to identify unusual behavior in the network and endpoint devices.
Documents findings and incident investigations.
Provides feedback and training to improve security controls.
Leads in assessing network vulnerabilities and identifying critical security flaws by testing and validating the security of the network and/or testing the network to understand where vulnerabilities exist and where corrections are needed