Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) Engineer - CONTRACT

Summary: Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) Engineer role focuses on leveraging Python to enhance security automation and response capabilities. The position requires hands-on experience with SOAR platforms and REST APIs to develop effective threat detection and response strategies. The engineer will collaborate with existing teams to optimize security automations and playbooks. This is a contract position based in London, UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop queries and enable robust detection of threats
• Develop and implement capabilities to detect and prevent security threats for faster and more effective responses
• Design and develop security automations across SOAR platforms and other security products and tooling
• Work with existing automation and platform engineers to improve upon existing playbooks and automations to ensure optimal platform performance

Key Skills:

• Ability to code in Python
• Hands-on experience
• Experience with SOAR platforms (Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR)
• Good experience with REST APIs
• Background in security automation

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) Engineer with Python - CONTRACT

You must have:

• the ability to code in Python
• hands-on experience
• experience with SOAR platforms (Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR)
• good experience with Rest APIs
• a background in security automation

You will be:

• develop queries and enable robust detection of threats
• developing and implementing the capability to detect and prevent security threats and enable a faster and more effective response
• Design and develop security automations across SOAR platform and other security products and tooling
• Work with existing automation and platform engineers to improve upon existing playbooks and automations to ensure optimal platform performance