Senior Cyber Security Specialist II - Threat Detection and Response

Job Summary

This role supports Walgreens’ Threat Detection and Response function, with a focus on leading complex security investigations, advancing enterprise detection capabilities, and improving incident response effectiveness across hybrid environments.

As a senior-level individual contributor, you will serve as a technical escalation point for high-impact and complex security incidents, owning investigations end to end from triage through root cause analysis, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvement. This role requires deep hands-on expertise, strong judgment, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous and time-sensitive situations.

You will help shape detection strategy by building and tuning detection logic, proactively hunting for threats, and using automation to improve response speed, consistency, and scalability. This work spans hybrid infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, identity systems, endpoints, and enterprise platforms, using log analysis, behavioral signals, threat intelligence, and attacker TTPs to identify and mitigate risk.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, implementing, and tuning detection logic across enterprise and cloud environments

• Leading complex incident response efforts and driving investigations through resolution

• Conducting proactive threat hunting and converting findings into actionable detections

• Developing automation to improve detection, enrichment, triage, and response workflows

• Partnering with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business teams to improve logging, telemetry, and observability

• Identifying gaps in detection coverage, tooling, processes, and response procedures, and driving improvements

• Providing technical guidance, mentoring team members, and contributing to overall team capability through knowledge sharing, documentation, and tabletop exercises

• Communicating technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership when needed

Success in this role requires the ability to take ownership, make sound decisions under pressure, and independently drive outcomes across complex security scenarios. The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically strong, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and able to influence improvements that strengthen Walgreens’ overall security posture.

Location Requirement:
This is a hybrid role based in Deerfield, IL, with 4 days onsite and 1 day remote.

Work Authorization:
Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads threat detection by identifying threats at the first phase of an attack or compromise. Detects threat actor activity including exploitation and risk to critical systems.

• Monitors specific cyber threat actors to understand their tactics and techniques.

• Utilizes data analysis, threat intelligence and cutting-edge security technologies to find unusual behavior and malicious activity.

• Leads the hunt for hidden and unidentified threats to the organization’s cyber environment.

• Tracks down the malicious agents who are already in a network and removes them from the environment once discovered.

• Works with security monitoring tools such as firewalls, data loss prevention, network intrusion detection and antivirus software.

• Uses a hypothesis-driven approach and behavioral analysis to uncover connections and correlations between potential cyber threats.

• Reviews audit logs to identify unusual behavior in the network and endpoint devices. Documents findings and incident investigations. Provides feedback and training to improve security controls.

• Leads in assessing network vulnerabilities and identifying critical security flaws by testing and validating the security of the network and/or testing the network to understand where vulnerabilities exist and where corrections are needed

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.