Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Microsoft Defender)

  • Illinois
  • The Judge Group

This is hybrid role to downtown Chicago and a direct hire role. Daily Tasks Threat hunting component is front and center-taking information we get from different sources and making sure we have appropriate detections and protections in our environment. Reviewing alerts and investigating anomalies 1/3rd of time spent: threat hunting 1/3rd of time spent: security projects 1/3rd of time spent: security operations and response Some items include, but are not limited to: Incident reviews, Security tool configuration reviews, Preparing information for presentation to Cybersecurity Steering committee Must Have: Experience and knowledge with Microsoft Defender suite Active Directory and Azure Active Directory / Entra ID security Financial Services Experience Experience with Microsoft Sentinel and writing Kusto Query Language (KQL) Experience with email and web security tools (Z scaler) Microsoft Azure cloud security and administration PowerShell scripting experience