
Security Automation Engineer
Aflac
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: South Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,000 - $132,000 per year
About the role
- Assist the team lead in Global Security Operations SOAR growth and maturity
- Actively improve security monitoring and incident response capabilities
- Implementation, development and maintenance of the SOAR platform
- Collaborate with Global Security teams to identify automation opportunities, create workflows and deliver tested automations
- Identify and implement monitoring use cases, incident response procedures, playbooks and technical documentation
- Provide ongoing engineering support for automation platform(s)
- Participate in Post Incident Reviews and contribute to process improvement
- Act as subject matter expert in multiple security technologies and processes
- Perform other related duties as required
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security or other related field
- 5+ years of IT Security analyst/engineer experience
- Advanced working knowledge within a Security Operations and/or Engineering including monitoring, incident response and engineering security solutions
- Experience interacting with RESTful APIs, including authentication mechanisms, handling responses, error management, and data parsing
- Strong understanding of structured data formats such as JSON, XML, YAML
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code principles
- Experience with development in a SOAR platform
- Hands-on technical experience with commercial SIEM products
- Technical certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, CISSP are a plus
- Familiarity with SIEM, Active Directory, Firewalls, Network Protocols, IDS/IPS, Pcaps, Email monitoring technologies, VPN and Cloud technology, Open Source security tools, Forensic tools
- Proficiency in using Microsoft products
- Strong foundation in networking fundamentals with deeper knowledge of TCP/IP
- Familiarity with Windows and Linux command line environments
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Prescription drug coverage
- Health care flexible spending
- Dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- Annual bonuses
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
- State-mandated sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SOAR platform developmentincident responsesecurity monitoringRESTful APIsJSONXMLYAMLCI/CD pipelinescommercial SIEM productsnetworking fundamentals
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsprocess improvementcollaborationsubject matter expertise
Certifications
GCIHGCFACISSP