DEPARTURES // Job Search Board

DEPARTURES

Mohammed Ali Khan // IT Security & Infrastructure Job Search Board

RUN DATE: PASSES: Chicagoland (on-site/hybrid) + Nationwide Remote — cumulative across all sessions through 8/10 WINDOW: Last 24–48h (strict)

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Archive / Already Seen

No prior dashboard file was found in this session's working directory, so there is nothing to archive yet — every listing on this run is shown under New Since Last Run. Keep this HTML file and re-run the pipeline against it going forward; future runs will move today's listings here automatically and only surface genuinely new postings up top, per your standing dashboard rule.

Application Tracker (New Listings Only)

Scoped to this run's fresh finds. Click a status cell's dropdown to update — state is kept in-browser only (this file does not phone home), so re-save the file locally if you want the status to persist between sessions.

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Market Check — This Run vs. Early August vs. Industry

Volume, this run (remote-only targeted rotation, 3-day window)

Total searches run across all sessions today

Relevant listings kept after filtering

~85%

Raw results discarded as noise

Verified genuinely-remote, manual-apply roles

This board now spans three passes on the same job-search day: a partial 5-keyword pass (17 listings), a full 11-title Chicagoland+remote rotation (41 listings), and this latest remote-only pass targeting your specific role list (14 more added, several flagged unverified). Duplicates across passes were checked by URL/job ID before adding. See Algorithm Watch for keywords that are still producing noise regardless of coverage — notably "DSPM" and generic "Engineer" collisions.

Vs. the August 2 consolidated run (317 listings, 4-lane sweep)

Volume is still down from Aug 2 on a like-for-like basis, but far closer than the partial run suggested. Aug 2 pulled a much larger keyword rotation accumulated across many sessions/days; this run is a single 24–48h snapshot. Per-search yield (41 kept / 22 searches \u2248 1.9 relevant listings per search) is a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio for a tight freshness window.
Comp transparency: roughly a third of kept listings carry a posted salary band, ranging from $60K (entry-level support) to $237K (principal security architect) — consistent with prior sessions and with IAM/security specialization commanding the top of the range.
Security & IAM was the dominant lane by a wide margin (17 of 41 listings), including several strong SailPoint/Entra ID/CyberArk/ForgeRock matches to your background (KPMG SailPoint IGE, Ensono ForgeRock IAM, Optiv Identity Advisory). Endpoint & Infra was second (12 listings). Help Desk & Support and AI Implementation remained thin (5 and 1 listings respectively) even with full keyword coverage.
AI Implementation is a genuine gap, not just a search-coverage artifact. Even with "AI Implementation Engineer" and "AI Automation Engineer" run explicitly this time, only one true agentic-automation-adjacent role surfaced (Deltek's GTM Operations Analyst, using Lindy/Workato/n8n-class tools). The keyword space is heavily crowded by generic "AI Engineer"/LLM/MLOps postings that don't match your GoHighLevel/n8n implementation profile — worth trying "GoHighLevel," "agentic workflow," or "business process automation" as more targeted next-run keywords.
Remote-eligible volume improved substantially with full coverage: 10 of 41 kept listings are confirmed genuinely remote with IL eligibility, versus 4 of 17 in the partial run — including three strong finds that named Illinois/Chicago directly (Optiv's Identity Advisor role explicitly lists Chicago as a preferred base, and CNO/Washington National lists Chicago as an office location for its EST/CST remote hire).

Vs. industry hiring averages for these lanes

BLS data projects 29% employment growth for information security analysts from 2024 to 2034, with roughly 16,000 openings a year nationally and 2024 median pay near $124,910 — the Security & IAM listings surfaced here (Booth's $80K–$115K admin role, SitusAMC's $100K–$125K IAM/CyberArk role, Bayview's $160K–$180K security engineer role) bracket that national median reasonably well for a mix of admin-to-senior-engineer levels.
Cybersecurity postings nationally have climbed to over 514,000 open roles per CyberSeek/CompTIA data, and identity and access management is called out as one of the most in-demand specialties heading into 2026 — consistent with IAM/Entra ID/CyberArk roles being the largest single cluster in this run's Chicagoland results.
The cloud and IT services sector is described as the most aggressive recruiter of cybersecurity talent entering 2026, which lines up with this run's Endpoint & Infra lane skewing toward cloud/infrastructure titles (Systems & Cloud Administrator, Infrastructure Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect) rather than classic on-prem sysadmin work.
Help Desk & Support and AI Implementation are both thin in this run relative to Security/Infra — consistent with the general trend that entry/support tiers see high applicant volume per opening (more competition, less agency-visible urgency) while true agentic-AI implementation roles are still often folded into generic "AI Engineer" or Data Scientist postings that don't surface cleanly on job-title keyword searches.

Industry figures above are national aggregates from CyberSeek/CompTIA, BLS, and Motion Recruitment's 2026 salary guide (searched live for this run) — not Chicago-specific and not IT-support-specific, so treat as directional context rather than a precise benchmark for these exact roles.

Algorithm Watch — Staleness & Repetition Flags

[SEVERE] The "n8n" keyword search on the remote pass returned 20 of 25 results as the identical BairesDev "CRM Senior Specialist – Remote Work" posting, re-listed once per U.S. city (Dallas, Plano, Austin, Houston, San Francisco, LA, NYC, etc.). Zero genuine automation-tooling relevance. This keyword is fully hijacked and shouldn't be trusted without heavier filtering.

[SEVERE, NEW] "Endpoint Engineer" returned zero true endpoint-security results in either pass — every hit across both the Chicagoland and remote searches was generic noise (LLM/GenAI engineers, GTM engineers, DevOps roles) that happened to contain the word "engineer." This keyword is not usable as currently phrased; try "endpoint security," "JAMF," or "CrowdStrike Falcon administrator" instead next run.

[CONFIRMED, RECURRING] Harris Computer "(Remote) Technical Support Engineer" again appeared duplicated per state (Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, Texas) — same cross-posting pattern logged in prior sessions.

[NEW PATTERN] Relativity "Technical Support Specialist – Weekday Overnight – Government" duplicated across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Maine, and New Hampshire with identical text — same per-state cross-posting pattern as Harris Computer. Recommend adding to the standing noise-exclusion list.

[NEW PATTERN] Bright Vision Technologies is cross-posting near-identical AI/infrastructure engineer titles ("Observability Engineer," "LLM Engineer," "Messaging Systems Engineer," "OpenShift Administrator," "SAP System Administrator," "Infrastructure Automation Engineer") across many unrelated cities (Westford MA, Ahwatukee AZ, Lexington MA, Troy MI, Apex NC, Sterling VA, Santa Clara CA) — classic staffing-mill template spam, appeared on 4+ separate keyword searches this run. Recommend adding to the permanent noise-exclusion list alongside Harris Computer.

[NEW PATTERN] RemoteHunter intermediary/placement-agency postings appeared across multiple unrelated keyword searches this run (Database Administrator II, Cloud Engineer, Operations Specialist, Data Entry Specialist) — not necessarily fake, but each is a third-party placement listing rather than the hiring company directly. Kept the Database Administrator II role with a verification flag; treat similar RemoteHunter postings with the same caution.

[CONFIRMED, RECURRING] Generic "… Engineer" keywords (IAM Engineer, Infrastructure Administrator) continue to surface unrelated engineering-discipline noise (electrical/mechanical/substation/trading engineers) rather than IT-specific roles. "AI Automation," "AI Automation Engineer," and "AI Implementation" keywords continue to surface QA/MLOps/Data Science/GTM-engineer roles rather than true agentic-implementation work — consistent with filtering notes already on file, confirmed again with full keyword coverage this run.

[CONFIRMED] Jobgether aggregator listings continued to appear in raw results across several keyword searches and were excluded per the standing noise-exclusion rule.

[SEVERE, NEW] The "DSPM" keyword (Data Security Posture Management — your Cyera differentiator) is almost entirely hijacked by "DSP" acronym collisions — digital-signal-processing and RF engineering roles (Skylark Wireless, HawkEye 360, Leidos signal processing). Zero genuine DSPM/data-security-posture listings surfaced. This keyword needs a qualifier next run — try "data security posture management" spelled out, or "Cyera"/"Securiti" by vendor name.

[NEW PATTERN] KPMG US "Senior Associate, SailPoint Identity Governance Engineer" is cross-posted identically across 15+ cities nationwide (Stamford, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, DC, Denver, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Winston-Salem, Sacramento, Louisville, Seattle, Greenville, Raleigh, Portland, Ashburn, Minneapolis, plus the Chicago listing already on this board). Same req, same posting, per-office duplication — deduped to the single Chicago instance already kept.

[NEW PATTERN] Trace3 "Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst (Remote)" is duplicated across at least 5 cities (Sioux Falls SD, Louisville KY, Kansas City KS, Oklahoma City OK) with identical text despite being labeled remote — same per-location cross-posting pattern as Harris Computer and Relativity. Not added to the board; recommend adding Trace3 to the standing noise-exclusion list if this recurs.

[CONFIRMED, RECURRING] SailPoint's own "Advisory Solution Consultant – Healthcare" req keeps reappearing under a different state each day (MI on 8/6, IL/MN/MO on 8/9–8/10) — same posting, rotating location tag. Deduped to the Illinois-tagged instance each time it reappears.

[SUSPECT, NEW] "Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote)" posted by Quik Hire Staffing on 8/10 listed a $300,000–$650,000/yr band for what reads as a standard FDE role — well outside every other FDE posting on this board ($135K–$220K range). Comp this far outside market norms for the stated seniority is a common pattern in scraped-listing spam; excluded from the board pending verification.

[WATCH] Several Forward Deployed Engineer results are posted under recruiting/hiring-platform names (Ladders, Jack & Jill, hackajob) rather than the actual hiring company — treat the "company" field on these as the intermediary, not the employer, and confirm who's actually hiring before applying.

Resume ↔ Job Description Keyword Tailoring Tool

Paste your resume text and a target job description below. This runs entirely in your browser (no data leaves this file) and highlights which of the job's key terms already appear in your resume, and which are missing — useful for a quick ATS keyword pass before you tailor and apply. Scoped to this run's new listings; copy a job description from the New Since Last Run tab above.

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Target Job Description