Aflac

Security Automation Engineer

Aflac

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: South CarolinaUnited 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