Security Engineer

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!

 

We currently have an opportunity for a Security Engineer at our Corporate Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

In the role of Security Engineer, your duties will involve creating, executing, and upkeeping the security framework for Reynolds Consumer Products. This position demands a comprehensive knowledge of information security and risk management, along with a documented history of crafting and deploying effective security measures.  You will work in collaboration with various teams to safeguard our systems and data, ensuring their confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility. Your responsibilities also include partnering with different business units to coordinate with their teams, making certain that our security framework is in line with the highest industry standards and contributes to achieving our business goals.

 

You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Security Architecture & Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade security controls across network, cloud, and endpoint environments.
• Engineer solutions that align to RCP’s security standards, policies, and architectural patterns.
• Build secure configurations for firewalls, proxies, IDS/IPS, secure web gateways, and segmentation technologies.

Cloud & Identity Security Engineering

• Engineer and harden cloud security configurations (Azure, AWS, GCP) including identity, workload protection, VM/container security, logging, and network controls.
• Implement and optimize IAM controls such as MFA enforcement, conditional access, identity governance, and privileged access restrictions.
• Integrate cloud telemetry into SIEM/EDR platforms and design detections where needed.

Network & Infrastructure Security

• Strengthen and maintain secure network architectures including segmentation, routing, hybrid connectivity, VPN, and micro-segmentation.
• Engineer security logging pipelines for network appliances, DNS, firewalls, and load balancers to ensure reliable detection coverage.
• Validate and remediate findings from network security assessments and penetration tests.

Security Tooling & Platform Ownership

• Serve as technical owner or co-owner for key platforms such as:
  • Firewalls & IDS/IPS
  • Secure Web Gateways (SWG)
  • Cloud-native security capabilities
• Build automations, integrations, dashboards, and health monitoring for security tools.

Threat Prevention & Hardening

• Continuously improve the organization’s security posture through configuration hardening, patch alignment, and reducing attack surface in servers, endpoints, OT devices, and cloud workloads.
• Evaluate new security technologies, conduct POCs, and make recommendations based on business needs and threat trends.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Enablement

• Partner with Cyber Defense to tune detections, improve telemetry quality, and address detection gaps.
• Work with Infrastructure and Application teams to ensure secure deployment pipelines, secure coding patterns, and secure design for new solutions.
• Assist teams in meeting compliance, audit, or regulatory obligations.

Documentation & Standards

• Develop and maintain security standards, baseline configurations, diagrams, runbooks, and engineering playbooks.
• Provide clear technical guidance to IT partners, ensuring consistent adoption of secure practices.

You Will Love It Here If… 

• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment
• You put safety first, always
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences 

• Tech Savvy – Applies deep technical knowledge and stays current with emerging security technologies to strengthen organizational capabilities.
• Problem Solving – Analyzes complex security challenges, identifies root causes, and develops effective solutions that balance risk and business needs.
• Strategic Mindset – Connects security engineering decisions to organizational priorities, emerging threats, and long-term business objectives.
• Collaborates – Builds effective partnerships across Cyber Defense, Infrastructure, Application teams, and business stakeholders to achieve shared security outcomes.
• Communicates Effectively – Explains complex security concepts clearly and provides actionable technical guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Decision Quality – Uses sound judgment, research, risk analysis, and technical expertise to make informed security engineering decisions.

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RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

USD $111,000.00 - USD $160,950.00 /A

Role is eligible for 14% annual incentive provided the business meets financial goals and the individual meets their performance goals, subject to plan administration guidelines.