SOC Sr. Staff Automation Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

Come join Palo Alto Networks as a SOC Senior Staff Automation Engineer on the Information Security team. As a member of the Security Operations Center group within InfoSec, you’ll push the limits of what’s possible in the SOAR space (Security, Orchestration, Automation and Response).  

At Palo Alto Networks, we “sip our own champagne” by protecting our global organization with the innovative security products that we build and sell to our customers. We are looking for an individual to perform in a key role in our internal SOC; Design, test and build inspiring automation playbooks in our own XSOAR product that are deployed internally to demonstrate what it means to truly disrupt the traditional manual SOC model.

With your passion for automation, coupled with your desire to hunt for and stop cyber bad actors, you will join a team of highly motivated SOC Engineers at the fastest growing security company in history. 

Your Impact

• Responsible for analyzing, building, testing, deploying, maintaining and documenting new SOAR (security orchestration and automation response) playbooks to extend the existing automation capabilities of the Security Operations Center
• Develop creative new approaches to accelerate threat detection, responses and remediation of security incidents in a global organization
• Coordinate playbook deployments with multi-functional team members to maintain high quality work products
• Manage & maintain cloud infrastructure & tooling operated by the automation team
• Collaborate with and provide feedback to the engineers and product managers of XSOAR as you operationalize the innovative security automation tool into Palo Alto Networks’ security operations

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 3+ years hands-on experience developing automation playbooks in XSOAR, Phantom, Swimlane or other leading SOAR solution
• Python scripting proficiency
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Customer focused, have a drive for results, and passionate about building great products that will have impact across the organization

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. 

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon!

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals