Security Automation Analyst

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Digital Hands is an innovative Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) with a mission to protect customer data and make technology available, productive and secure with the strongest talent in the cyber industry. Members of the Digital Hands Team work with leading technologies and protect a dynamic set of enterprise-class customers including best-known brands in the hospitality, financial, manufacturing and communications industries. Digital Hands employees enjoy competitive compensation and benefits, training opportunities, personal skills development, and opportunities for professional advancement across the organization. 

Digital Hands is comprised of innovators leading from the front, fueled by a desire to achieve, test new boundaries, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get there first every time. Ideal candidates believe in the mission and vision of the company and have a genuine love for what they do. At Digital Hands, we take ownership, obsess over our promises, anticipate our customers' needs. and get ahead of every threat so that our customers can focus on their business with the peace of mind that only comes from knowing their cyberworld is secure.

*This position is fully onsite.

 

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

Join our team as a Security Automation Developer. Work closely with experienced security professionals and DevOps team to optimize and automate security operations. As a key contributor, your work will significantly improve our service quality, providing ample opportunities to grow and expand your skillset within a team of dedicated, passionate experts.

 

WHO YOU ARE:

You possess a strong technical background as a driven and enthusiastic professional with a passion for cybersecurity innovation. You'll leverage our Maestro platform to develop automation workflows, and gain expertise through hands-on security tasks. Enjoy a dynamic role where you'll balance operational security with development in collaboration with various teams. If you are comfortable working in a high growth, dynamic environment and have a strong desire to continuously improve processes, this may be the ideal opportunity for you.

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Implement automation scripts and playbooks processes using a SOAR platform.
• Build data integrations between various systems using REST APIs.
• Collect data and create reports to track key metrics.
• Analyze existing security processes and key metrics to identify opportunities for automation.
• Work with our security team to perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
• Work with our security team to provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
• Automate complex tasks and processes to increase efficiency and reduce manual labor while improving security outcomes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other departments and teams to understand their needs and challenges.
• Participate in system design and ad-hoc development activities as necessary.
• Create and maintain training materials and documentation related to automation processes.

 

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 1-3 years of experience in an information technology role or software development role.
• Expert level Python experience.
• Experience developing and consuming REST APIs using Python.
• Experience working with SQL and no-SQL databases.
• Basic understanding of data modeling approaches.
• Experience with SOAR or other low-code automation tools preferred.
• Cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience including deploying and monitoring applications.
• A keen interest in security and the need for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems to be.
• Ability to analyze systems and processes to identify potential areas for automation and optimization.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent problem-solving