SOAR Security Engineer (TS/SCI) (Herndon, VA)

What You'll Get To Do:

• Help the SOC transform manual processes into automated playbooks inside a SOAR platform
• Build and/or augment incident response processes with automation capabilities
• Work with analysts to understand existing incident response processes and propose automation use cases to augment those processes
• Use automation to streamline and standardize customer use cases
• Work with management to understand incident response and automation reporting needs, then propose and build relevant reports and dashboards

• Engage with other aspects of the Technical Operations including ticketing, monitoring, and detection tools
• Work closely with the Security Analyst to automate the collection of supporting information for alert analysis and resulting defensive response
• Respond to high-priority requests for information/custom detections from key partners
• Manage and update incident response procedures and workflows/playbooks
• Become a subject matter expert in the customers' high value assets and targets
• Build novel monitoring and alerting playbooks to address potential targeted attacks
• Perform other security operations necessary for continuous monitoring and triaging the platform

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years experience in SOC operations supporting incident response and/or detection engineering
• Minimum 1 years experience in building automations in a SOAR platform
• Experience working with structured data (JSON) and REST/SOAP API's

• 1+ years of scripting, Python strongly desired
• DOD 8140.01 – DOD8570.01 M IAT Level II, CSSP Infrastructure
• Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and solution orientation and to learn and adapt quickly
• Knowledge of how common protocols and applications work at the network level, including DNS & HTTPS
• Experience using the Linux command line interface (CLI)

These Qualifications Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience managing or developing detection logic for enterprise SIEM systems
• Experience with exploitation techniques and use case development
• Experience with IOC datasets (e.g., YARA, OpenIOC, STIX)
• Experience deploying to, and leveraging cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) to extend operational capabilities
• Strong knowledge of network monitoring and network exploitation techniques, including the MITRE ATT&CK technique framework and other common attack vectors