Sr. Container Security Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Container Security Engineer to strengthen our cybersecurity posture across containerized environments. This role focuses on the identification, analysis, and mitigation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in container images, Kubernetes clusters, and related orchestration platforms. The ideal candidate will bring technical expertise in container security tooling, vulnerability management, and secure configuration practices, while driving collaboration with DevOps and engineering teams to embed security into the container lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Perform container image scanning to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and insecure base images.
• Manage and optimize container security platforms.
• Develop and enforce Kubernetes security baselines, focusing on RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and runtime controls.
• Partner with DevOps and applications teams to integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Continuously monitor for container runtime threats, privilege escalations, and drift from security baselines.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, and compliance teams to ensure vulnerabilities and misconfigurations are remediated in line with risk priorities.

Top Skills

• Container orchestration
• Kubernetes
• Information security
• GCP
• Cloud

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Chicago, IL. This is a fully onsite position in Chicago, IL.

Pay

• $70.00 - $90.00/hr

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)