Cybersecurity Engineer

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IT/Network-Corporate Full-Time Professional East Peoria, IL, US

7 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

The Cybersecurity Engineer serves as the primary cybersecurity resource for the i3 Broadband and is responsible for advancing the security of the organization's infrastructure, systems, applications, endpoints, identities, and data. Reporting to the IT Infrastructure Manager, this position balances cybersecurity program coordination with hands‑on technical execution.

This role identifies and evaluates cyber risk, recommends practical security improvements, coordinates remediation with responsible departments, and works directly with Infrastructure and other technology teams to implement security controls. This position is expected to spend most of its time performing hands‑on cybersecurity engineering, monitoring, vulnerability management, security administration, incident response, and remediation activities while supporting cybersecurity program objectives. As the organization continues to mature its cybersecurity program, this role will have the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of security processes, technologies, and resources.

The Cybersecurity Engineer partners with Infrastructure, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, Helpdesk, application owners, business stakeholders, managed security providers, and vendors to improve security visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen incident preparedness.

• Serve as the organization’s cybersecurity engineering resource and provide guidance to Information Technology leadership and stakeholders.
• Identify cybersecurity risks, recommend priorities, and translate technical findings into clear business impact, remediation options, and practical next steps.
• Develop, maintain, and improve cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, technical guidance, and program documentation.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity initiatives across Infrastructure, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, Helpdesk, application owners, business departments, and third‑party partners.
• Support the continued development of the cybersecurity program through participation in process improvement, reporting, metrics development, and security initiatives.

• Monitor security tools, alerts, logs, threat intelligence, and managed security service notifications; investigate and validate suspicious activity.
• Coordinate and perform incident response activities, including detection, containment, eradication, recovery, escalation, documentation, and post‑incident review.
• Maintain incident records, response procedures, communication paths, and lessons learned.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation or provide after‑hours support for significant cybersecurity incidents and planned security changes as needed.

• Administer or support vulnerability scanning and assessment platforms and maintain an accurate view of identified vulnerabilities and exposures.
• Review, validate, prioritize, and communicate vulnerabilities based on technical severity, business impact, exploitability, and operational context.
• Coordinate remediation with infrastructure, network, application, software, and vendor owners; validate completed remediation and track exceptions or accepted risks.
• Support external security assessments, penetration tests, public exposure monitoring, and remediation planning.

• Assess systems, endpoints, identities, cloud…