Security Automation Engineer III (SOAR)

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago.

Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual!

We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual.

We're strong, innovative, and growing

We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career, and in turn, our business.

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 NM’s Cybersecurity team. As a member of the Security Automation team, you will play a pivotal role inbuilding andmaintaining a continuous and sustainable security automation pipeline to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy of detection and response capabilities and reduce manual tasks for theCybersecurity 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 (primarilyin 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 team's 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’sdegree 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

ServiceNowdevelopment 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.

Our Benefits!

Tons of room for career growth.

We offer highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities

Medical / Dental / Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

We provide tuition reimbursement, PTO, and Holiday Pay

We provide extensive Professional Training Opportunities

We offer an excellent Work / Life Balance

LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

Pay Range - Start : $90,930.00

$90,930.00

Pay Range - End : $168,870.00

$168,870.00

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