Cyber Defense Automation Engineer, Mandiant, Google Cloud

As a Cyber Defense Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for enabling the technology and tools required to effectively automate and orchestrate daily tasks within a Cyber Defense Center (CDC). You will collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams like Mandiant Architects, Mandiant Analysts, Client Information Technology (IT) resources, and other business resource owners, to define requirements and deliver recommendations focused on technologies, processes, scripting, and improvements required to support automation tasks within a CDC.

In this role, you will work as a member of a highly technical team in a rapidly changing environment, administer a variety of information security technologies, learn new emerging technologies, and be passionate about protecting customer data and corporate assets from the threats facing multiple industries.

• Identify challenges in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, identify candidates for automation, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
• Advise on technologies relied upon by the client CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.
• Provide expertise for SOAR and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response.
• Create and modify SOAR playbooks written in Python.
• Engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 3 years of experience configuring and maintaining Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) Technologies as part of Security Engineering, System Administration, or a similar role.
• Experience managing and maintaining SOAR platforms and its dependencies, and working with/integrating APIs into automation playbooks.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• One or more of the following: CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+; CISCO (CCNA); ISC2 (CISSP); SANS (GSEC, GCIH, GCED, GCFA, GCIA, GNFA, GPEN).
  
• 3 years of experience working with SOC/CSIRT or other incident response related teams.
  
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions (e.g., writing queries, searches, alerts, dashboards).
  
• Experience scripting (e.g., Python).
  
• Understanding of security controls for common platforms and devices (e.g., Linux, network equipment), web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and RESTful programming (e.g., Python libraries), and data manipulation and analysis libraries (e.g., Pandas).
  
• Understanding of the incident response, containment, and remediation process.