Security Automation Engineer
Join us as we pursue our exciting new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Role Summary
In this role, you will be responsible for developing, troubleshooting, and debugging SOAR playbooks and connectors. You will have a deep understanding of Information Security principles coupled with a solid grasp of python language and a strong desire to learn and grow within the automation space. The SOAR Engineer will be part of the Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence team and will be a key member in efforts to automate Security Operations Center, Incident Response and Threat Hunting processes. This is a hardworking team who has fun, enjoys a good laugh but above all else thinks security first!
What you'll get to do
- Work closely with the Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response and Security Engineering teams to craft, develop and improve existing automation and deliver resilient security solutions.
- Assess, design, and improve SOC processes and workflows with a focus on integrating automation through Splunk SOAR and CICD platforms.
- Integrate new logging sources and build playbooks to accurately prioritize and respond to security incidents while reducing the time needed to analyze each event.
- Develop custom scripts to automate current detection and response workflows.
- Analyze SOC alerts statistics and workflows to reduce false positives and accurately focus engineering efforts.
- Develop repeatable processes to develop and troubleshoot playbooks.
- Guide, train and coach other members on the team against security and DevOps best practices.
Must-have Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience with information security in a professional work.
- 2+ years of experience with Cybersecurity technologies, protocols, applications with focus on one or more of the following Cybersecurity areas such as SIEM, IDR, firewalls, forensics, data logging and IAM.
- 1+ years of experience in tool integrations, CI/CD and REST APIs
- 1+ years of software development experience with Python, Golang, JavaScript, or similar.
- Experience in Phantom / Splunk SOAR, including developing playbooks, troubleshooting, training, or supporting technical requests.
- Experience working with Splunk to search through data, craft reports and design dashboards.
- Fully proficient in git and version control systems like GitLab and GitHub
- Experience developing tools to enable cyber security teams.
- Skilled in Linux administration and Cloud Technologies, such as AWS.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to explain intricate technical topics to varying groups.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
- Prior experience within Vulnerability Management, Security Operations, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence domains.
- Experience working in a DevSecOps role to enable the business while keeping products secure.
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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