Senior Security Engineer

Hub International Insurance • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Senior Security Engineer manages information security identity operations, governance, and engineering. The role contributes to incident response, playbook development and execution, operational engineering, tooling maintenance, and information security programs, collaborating with HUB IT teams to design and support effective security operations. It is responsible for maintaining the security integrity of mission-critical applications, ensuring identity security tools operate at required service and availability levels, and supporting rapid identification and mitigation of security events. The position also contributes to identity operations performance metrics, reporting, governance, certification, and continuous improvement. It leads or assists with operational projects, application and infrastructure configuration, and the development of security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures.

The role requires availability 24/7 for critical security incidents requiring immediate resolution. The expected salary range is $100,000 to $135,000, with compensation affected by candidate skills, experience, work location, and position scope. HUB describes a collaborative culture and offers training, licensing support, development opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or applicable experience.
• At least 8 years of experience in information security operations across multiple roles.
• At least 5 years of experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and O365 services and technology.
• At least 5 years of experience in security identity operations.
• At least 3 years of experience defining and refining operational processes and driving efficiency.
• Extensive experience with identity protocols and technologies including SAML, OID, OAuth, SCIM, and MFA.
• Experience working with and managing Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with IAM technologies (IAM, PIM, PAM) and directory services or products such as SailPoint, Okta, Active Directory, OneLogin, LastPass, Keeper, or Delinea.
• Experience with KQL, SPL, or other query languages.
• Experience with PowerShell, Python, and shell scripting.
• Expert working knowledge of Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta.
• Knowledge of information security identity standards, principles, and practices.
• Knowledge of industry security standards, guidelines, and regulatory or compliance requirements, such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, PCI, and SOX.
• Experience in project management, systems design, and integration.
• Thorough knowledge of layered systems architectures, solutions, and designs.
• Ability to recommend suitable risk-management actions and account for anticipated and unforeseen impacts.
• Strong prioritization, decision-making, critical-thinking, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Nice To Haves

• Related certifications, such as GSEC, CISSP, GIAC, or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple aspects of information security identity operations, governance, and engineering.
• Manage assigned projects and contribute to their successful completion.
• Contribute to the Security Support and Identity Operations Team, maintaining the security integrity of mission-critical applications.
• Respond to critical security incidents requiring immediate resolution, with 24/7 availability.
• Ensure identity security tooling is operational and meets required service and availability levels.
• Contribute to identity operations KPIs and performance measurement.
• Maintain current knowledge of identity, authentication, authorization, and governance technologies and techniques, and recommend modernization and improvements.
• Ensure identity operations practices, tools, and processes support rapid identification of security events and risk mitigation.
• Communicate with peers about security operations, project status, activities, and achievements.
• Lead continuous-improvement efforts for information security identity tooling and systems.
• Plan, organize, and execute responsibilities to achieve project goals, providing technical leadership to operational projects.
• Contribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures that comply with policies and technical standards.
• Evaluate identity management security tooling packages for acceptable efficacy.
• Contribute to identity management analysis, governance, and certification operations.
• Contribute to weekly and monthly posture and identity operations reporting.
• Configure new applications and infrastructure needed for security identity operations.
• Analyze and recommend upgrades, changes, and implementations to support and scale security identity operations.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending account (FSA).
• 401(k) accounts and retirement savings matching.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, personal, floating holidays, and company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Wellbeing program.
• Company-paid life and disability plans.
• Eligible annual bonuses, equity, and commissions may be available for some positions.
• Structured training, licensing support, and ongoing development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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