Security Automation Engineer (SOAR)

Our great client in Milwaukee, WI has an immediate FTE opening for a Security Automation Engineer (SOAR). If you are interested please apply with resume to [email protected] .
Location: Milwaukee Hybrid or NYC Hybrid - Not open to remote
Salary: $130k
Annual Bonus: 7.5%
This is a hybrid position at either our Milwaukee office or our New York City office. (The Milwaukee office requires onsite M, T, and W or in our NYC office on Thursday plus 1 other day.)
What are we looking for?
A highly motivated Security Automation Engineer to join Cybersecurity team. As a member of the Security Automation team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining a continuous and sustainable security automation pipeline to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy of detection and response capabilities and reduce manual tasks for the Cybersecurity teams. This role requires a mix of coding skills, systems engineering, and security domain expertise.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Automate workflows/processes related to security events through SOAR playbooks.
• Assist with the design, engineering, deployment, and maintenance of custom automation tools (primarily in Python and PowerShell)
• Develop integrations with security tools and APIs.
• Assist with the ongoing enhancement to the organization's case management system, and actively identify areas of improvement within the processes of our Cybersecurity teams with the goal of decreasing response times, increasing effectiveness and streamlining security operations.
• Maintain and improve the teams products, infrastructure, and technology stack.
• Assist with the development of dashboards, metrics and alerts related to the organization's security case management system/processes and SOAR-infrastructure/processes.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to the automation of workflows related to detection/response procedures for security events.

Required Skills: ?

• 2-4 years of professional development experience using Python.
• Hands-on experience with security automation and orchestration tools and/or software development technologies.
• Comfortable with REST API best practices and usage.
• Hands-on experience deploying content and/or systems through CI/CD environments, and tooling such as GitLab, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes etc.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud services configuration and development.
• Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows systems administration.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to communicate to a technical and non-technical audience.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field
• Experience with Splunk SOAR (Phantom) and Splunk SIEM.
• Experience with Splunk SPL queries, dashboards, and alerts.
• Practical experience with automation techniques using PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, API calls, and regular expressions.
• Additional coding experience in one or more programming languages - Java, C++, Go
• ServiceNow development experience
• Experience with network and/or systems administration.
• Experience working in Security Operations, Incident Response, or Penetration Testing
• Hands-on experience with security technologies such as SIEM, firewalls, IDR/IPS, EDR, IAM principles and others.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.