Redwood Logistics · 1 day ago
IT Security Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$115K/yr - $130K/yr
4+ years expRedwood Logistics is recognized as a leader in supply chain technology and is seeking an IT Security Engineer. This role involves designing, implementing, and improving security controls to protect the organization’s digital assets, as well as monitoring and responding to security threats.
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Responsibilities
Design, implement, and tune technical security controls across cloud, endpoint, identity, and email environments
Validate the effectiveness of existing security controls
Partner with IT and engineering teams to deploy security tooling, integrate log sources, and improve visibility and telemetry
Own continuous improvement of security controls aligned to industry frameworks
Evaluate new security technologies and configurations
Improve alert quality by reducing false positives through rule tuning and correlation
Assist in building and maintaining dashboards and metrics that measure control effectiveness, detection coverage, and response performance
Identify gaps in monitoring or logging and remediate them
Monitor, triage, and investigate alerts across security tooling including SIEM, EDR, and email security platforms
Lead and participate in security incident response activities, including containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis
Perform root cause analysis for security incidents findings and drive corrective actions
Develop, refine, and maintain incident response processes to improve response effectiveness
Track and analyze security events and trends to identify gaps in detection, coverage, or response capabilities
Handle daily tasks, ad-hoc assignments, and lead projects as needed or directed by IT Security management
Participate in on-call rotation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
4–7 years of hands-on experience in security engineering, security operations, or incident response roles
Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls across endpoint, identity, cloud, and email environments
Strong experience with incident response, including investigation, containment, remediation, and post-incident analysis
Experience with SIEM platforms, including log ingestion, correlation, alert tuning, and investigation workflows
Hands-on experience with EDR/XDR technologies (e.g., CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, Defender for Endpoint, or equivalent)
Experience improving detection quality, including reducing false positives and increasing signal fidelity through tuning and correlation
Ability to validate control effectiveness through testing, simulation, and real-world incident analysis
Working knowledge of modern attack techniques, adversary tradecraft, and defensive detection strategies
Experience with cloud-native security architectures in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments
Experience integrating security tools with identity providers, SaaS platforms, and cloud logging pipelines
Proficiency in scripting or automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash) to support detection, response, or control validation
Experience building or improving incident response playbooks and operational processes
Exposure to detection engineering frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK mapping, threat-informed defense)
Experience evaluating and onboarding new security technologies
Benefits
Access to experts and resources for your Learning & Development journey
Opportunity for internal mobility
Employee referral bonus program
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Annual fundraising and volunteer events to give back to communities
Paid time off, floating holidays, time off to volunteer and rollover
Paid parental leave
Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
Flexible spending account, mass transit and dependent care plans available
Health savings account, with a annual company contribution for plan participants
Short-term and long-term disability; life insurance policies subsidized by company
Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care, access to legal advice and more
Company
Redwood Logistics
Redwood Logistics is a contract logistics partner that develops web-based solutions for companies of all types.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-12-14Acquired
Leadership Team
Mark Yeager
Chief Executive Officer
Andrea Alaimo
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
2025-10-09
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