Cyber Security Engineer

Security Automation Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA Duration: 12+ months contract to hire

Business Initiative/Purpose: Cybersecurity Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain integrations and automated workflows within our SOAR platform (Cortex XSOAR). This role will focus on ingesting and correlating data from third-party risk and security tools (e.g., Archer, SecurityScorecard, Splunk), enabling alerting for vendor-related threats, and executing automated response playbooks to reduce risk and response time.

SOAR Engineering & Integrations

• Design, build, and maintain integrations between XSOAR and platforms such as Archer (or other GRC tools), SecurityScorecard (or similar vendor risk tools), and SIEM solutions such as Splunk.
• Develop custom connectors and API-based integrations where native connectors do not exist.
• Normalize, enrich, and correlate data from third-party and external risk sources for operational use.

Third-Party Risk Alerting

• Build alerting logic for vendor-related threats including vendor breaches, risk score degradation, SaaS abuse, and exposure of vendor-managed assets.
• Correlate vendor risk signals with internal telemetry to determine potential business impact.
• Enable SOC workflows for third-party-related detections.

Automation & Playbooks

• Design and implement SOAR playbooks to triage, enrich, and respond to vendor-related alerts.
• Automate response actions such as token revocation, access suspension, ticket creation, and stakeholder notification.
• Maintain and optimize playbooks to reduce manual effort and mean time to respond (MTTR).
• Partner with SOC, Vendor Risk, Threat Modeling, and Detection Engineering teams to translate risk scenarios into automation logic.
• Document integrations, workflows, and playbooks.
• Monitor performance and reliability of SOAR automations.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences

• 3+ years of experience in security engineering, SOAR engineering, or security automation.
• Hands-on experience with Cortex XSOAR (or similar SOAR platform).
• Experience integrating SIEM platforms such as Splunk.
• Strong API integration and scripting skills (Python, REST, JSON, webhooks).
• Solid understanding of incident response workflows, SaaS security, IAM, and third-party risk.
• Docker, Kubernetes, containerization pipeline, and deployment experience.
• Other security certifications (e.g. CCNA Security, GSEC, GCED, GPPA, etc.).
• Other technical Certifications (e.g. CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, etc.).
• Demonstrated knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, with a focus on Azure AI offerings

Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences

• Experience integrating Archer, ServiceNow GRC, SecurityScorecard, BitSight, or RiskRecon.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATTACK and detection engineering concepts.
• Experience automating SaaS security actions (token revocation, session termination).
• Familiarity with External Attack Surface Management (EASM) tools.
• EEO "Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."