Cybersecurity Automation Engineer

Summary

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The Office of Information Technology is seeking applicants for their IT Specialist (INFOSEC) (Cybersecurity Automation Engineer) position. You will design, build, and sustain automation that strengthens SEC security operations, infrastructure-as-code, security-tool integrations, and SOAR playbooks across on-premises and cloud environments. As a senior technical authority and escalation point, you will lead automation projects, guide supporting contractors, and reduce operational toil.

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### The public

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All US Citizens

Duties

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In this role as a Cybersecurity Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for

• Designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructure and configuration automation, using configuration-management and orchestration tooling to deploy, harden, and sustain enterprise security platforms consistently and at scale.
• Building and maintaining integrations between security and IT tools via REST/Graph APIs and custom Python to automate data exchange, enrichment, and workflow handoffs across the environment.
• Developing, testing, and operating SOAR playbooks that automate triage, enrichment, containment, and response actions in coordination with the SOC.
• Applying software-engineering discipline to all automation artifacts source control, peer code review, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, auditable, and repeatable delivery.
• Maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting production automation, managing version, dependency, and secret-handling lifecycle to keep workflows secure and current.
• Serving as the senior technical authority and escalation point for automation issues, leading automation projects end-to-end, and directing the technical work of supporting contractor sta...