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Senior IT Security Engineer

Breakthru Beverage · Cicero, IL · Full time

Posted Jun 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a security incident you investigated. What did you find and how did you contain it?

What they are checking: Real incident response experience and a clear, methodical approach under pressure.

Tell me about a time you coordinated a security project across several IT teams.

What they are checking: Leadership and coordination skills the posting expects of a senior engineer working independently.

How do you explain a technical risk to a non-technical manager so they act on it?

What they are checking: Communication skills that turn security findings into business decisions.

What would you do

How would you roll out privileged access management for administrators who resist changing how they work?

What they are checking: Technical PAM knowledge plus the people skills to drive adoption across IT teams.

You notice a SaaS application storing sensitive data with weak access controls. What do you do?

What they are checking: Taking ownership of SaaS risk and coordinating with the business owner to fix it.

About the work

Walk me through how you would deploy and tune a SIEM so analysts are not buried in false positives.

What they are checking: Hands-on SIEM skill and the judgment to make alerts useful rather than noisy.

What is the difference between CSPM and CIEM, and what problem does each solve in the cloud?

What they are checking: Understanding of cloud posture and entitlement tools that the posting lists by name.

How would you build a vulnerability management program that actually gets critical issues fixed?

What they are checking: Prioritizing by risk and working with IT owners so patches happen, not just scans.

How do you fit security into the software development lifecycle without slowing developers too much?

What they are checking: DevSecOps thinking and finding practical controls that teams will actually use.

How do you decide when a security tool should be retired or replaced?

What they are checking: Lifecycle thinking about tools, cost and coverage rather than just adding more products.

How do zero trust networking and identity providers change how you protect remote access?

What they are checking: Modern access architecture knowledge, which the posting points to with ZTN and IdP.

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The full job description

As published by Breakthru Beverage.

Are you a current Associate? To be considered, you must submit your application through the internal Career Portal (Jobs Hub). Click here to access. Time Type: Full time Remote Type: Job Family Group: Information Technology Job Description Summary: The Senior IT Security Engineer is responsible for planning, deploying, administering, and maintaining security platforms and technologies to protect the organization's IT infrastructure. This role involves independently executing security initiatives, coordinating tasks among security and IT teams, and ensuring systems are optimized and compliant. Key responsibilities include incident response, risk management, and collaboration to enhance security posture. Strong technical expertise, leadership, and communication skills are essential, along with relevant certifications like CISSP or CISM. Job Description: Job Responsibilities: • Coordinating the deployment, configuration, management, and retirement of security tools (e.g., firewalls, SIEM, PAM, ZTN, IdP, IAM, CSPM, DLP, Vulnerability/Exposure Management, CIEM, DevSecOps and SSDLC, etc.). • Monitoring and managing enterprise security systems, cloud environments, and SaaS environments for operational stability, vulnerabilities, and security incidents. • Providing deep technical analysis and support of security incidents • Managing the compliance of the enterprise environment with IT and security policies and standards. • Coordinating the evaluation of new IT and security products and services • Providing summary data, KPIs, metrics, and reports of the security products and technologies to management • Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent training and work experience • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in IT Security. • CISSP Certification • Expertise in networking protocols, administration of Windows and at least one Linux variant, and security technologies. • Proven experience with security tools and techniques. • Demonstrable knowledge of security, AWS and Azure cloud, and network design and implementation. • Demonstrable knowledge of data storage and management including data lakes and warehouses • Demonstrable knowledge of AI workflows and threats and risks to AI systems • Demonstrable knowledge of IaC including the use of HCL, YAML, or JSON • Basic scripting skills in two or more of the following: Powershell, Python, or Go • Basic scripting skills in Shell • Solid communication and cross function collaboration skills; able to coordinate and conduct meetings with other IT and business teams independently • Must be a results-oriented professional with verbal/written communication skills using diplomacy and discretion as well as customer service skills. Able to create written detailed project plans, determine resource requirements, dependencies, and level of effort requirements • Ability to multi-task, work independently and/or within a team, pay attention to detail and meet deadlines • Analytic and Reporting skills • Utilize sound judgement and problem-solving skills • Ability to work in fast-paced, high-volume, team environment Preferred Qualifications: • CCSP Certification • Master’s Degree Physical Requirements: • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to remain in a stationary position at times; communicate, and operate a computer and telephone Competencies: • May help coordinate the work of junior members of the team. • Resolves issues which are often varied and non-routine. Undertakes analysis and investigation to solve issues. This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of this position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks and duties. Responsibilities, tasks, and duties of individual jobholders may vary from the above description. $90K - $120K with 10% bonus. - - Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here . If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call (708) 298-3536 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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