Cybersecurity Automation Engineer
Securities and Exchange CommissionThe Office of Information Technology is seeking applicants for their IT Specialist (INFOSEC) (Cybersecurity Automation Engineer) position. You will design, build, and sustain automation that strengthens SEC security operations, infrastructure-as-code, security-tool integrations, and SOAR playbooks across on-premises and cloud environments. As a senior technical authority and escalation point, you will lead automation projects, guide supporting contractors, and reduce operational toil.In this role as a Cybersecurity Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for: Designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructure and configuration automation, using configuration-management and orchestration tooling to deploy, harden, and sustain enterprise security platforms consistently and at scale. Building and maintaining integrations between security and IT tools via REST/Graph APIs and custom Python to automate data exchange, enrichment, and workflow handoffs across the environment. Developing, testing, and operating SOAR playbooks that automate triage, enrichment, containment, and response actions in coordination with the SOC. Applying software-engineering discipline to all automation artifacts source control, peer code review, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, auditable, and repeatable delivery. Maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting production automation, managing version, dependency, and secret-handling lifecycle to keep workflows secure and current. Serving as the senior technical authority and escalation point for automation issues, leading automation projects end-to-end, and directing the technical work of supporting contractor staff. Collaborating with the SOC, logging and observability, network operations, cloud infrastructure and operations teams, and product vendors to scope, integrate, and improve automation capabilities. Engineering automation across hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments, including serverless and AI-assisted cloud workflows where appropriate. Translating manual, repetitive operational and response tasks into resilient automated workflows that reduce toil and improve mean time to respond.
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