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Manager, Cyber Defense

Request Technology, LLC
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 7/21/2026 CLOSED ON 8/12/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Cyber Defense position at Request Technology, LLC?

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

Responsibilities:

  • Lead cyber security incident responders in response activities including investigation, coordination, review, and reporting.
  • Oversee technical analysis of security events while coordinating incident response activities with internal and external teams.
  • Ensure and directly oversee the collection and preservation of data associated with cyber security incident response activities following industry best practices and established procedures.
  • Develop and support briefings to senior management as a trusted incident responder.
  • Prioritize and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives.
  • Lead systems management team to operationalize remediation efforts for gaps identified.
  • Develop and implement security monitoring roadmaps for company technologies, applications, SaaS, and other cloud-hosted solutions. These roadmaps will direct efforts on implementation of monitoring use cases and measurement of monitoring capabilities.
  • Manage, implement, and validate security monitoring use cases, mapping to frameworks, technical configuration for security tools, etc.
  • Subject matter expert on security tools including appliances, hosted systems, and SaaS including health checks, version updates, and content development.
  • Validate content changes to security tools are appropriate from other analysts and teams.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum five years hands-on security operations experience including interdisciplinary experience with four or more of the following: Cyber Threat Analysis, Digital Computer Forensics, Incident Response, Application Security, Operating Systems Security, Cryptographic Controls, Networking, Programming languages, Incident Response.
  • Proven team leadership and project management skills, with the initiative to drive solutions across diverse skillsets and work independently or with local/remote staff, vendors, and consultants.
  • Skilled in security assessments and control implementation based on standards like NIST, COBIT, ISO, ITIL, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
  • Implementation and maintenance of security platforms (Splunk, Crowdstrike, Symantec DLP) and vulnerability assessment tools (Qualys, Nessus, nmap), including incident response playbook development and remediation management.
  • Proficiency with network sniffers/packet tracing tools (Ethereal, tcpdump, etc.), preventative/detective technologies (EDR, network-based analysis), and Web Application Firewalls.
  • Strong background in encryption technologies (PGP, PKI, X.509) and directory services/LDAP security (Active Directory, CA Directory).
  • Experience across client/server platforms (Solaris, Windows, Linux) and OS hardening procedures, plus proxy/caching services.
  • Knowledge of LAN/WAN routing and high availability protocols (OSPF, BGP4/iBGP, EIGRP, NSRP), cloud security tools (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), and SOAR tools/concepts.
  • Some experience scripting and leveraging APIs to integrate security monitoring tools, with knowledge of Generative and Prompt AI.

Salary : $160,000 - $180,000

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