Security Automation Engineer

Job Description

This position is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. In this role, you will work with customer(s) supporting our mission to help them quickly and completely adopt our Security Operating Platform, leaving them more secure. This is a highly technical, hands-on role and you will develop and maintain expertise level skillsets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment.

Cortex XSOAR orchestration enables security teams to ingest alerts across sources and execute standardized, automatable playbooks for accelerated incident response.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with their Incident Response efforts leveraging Cortex XSOAR for Security Orchestration Automation and Response
• Learn & understand the customer’s business requirements and the threat landscape that is most applicable to their industry’s vertical sector
• Lead Cortex XSOAR technical implementation/operations in a customer environment
• Interact with Security and IT technologies relating to customer environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in crisis situations with all levels of an organization from Engineering/Operations to CIO/CISO audiences
• Ability to create documentation for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR playbooks
• Ability to refine and translate complex requirements and execute best practice solutions
• Ability to lead a team
• Other tasks and duties as needed to support the customer and/or business relating to Cortex XSOAR
• This position can sit anywhere in the US with the expectation to travel within the region

Experience

• Experience in Python and/or Javascript
• Experience managing complex security solutions in large environments
• Strong understanding of Linux or Unix, network troubleshooting analysis and current security threats
• Experience in cybersecurity incident response
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity technologies, protocols and applications
• Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end security solutions
• Experience with IDS/IPS, SEIM, Endpoint solutions and technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• GCIA, CISSP, and/or DevOps certifications is a plus
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required