Cyber Detection & Automation Engineer (XSOAR / XSIAM Content Engineering)

Contract      Information Security      Cleveland, Ohio      [job_pay_with_icon]

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Information Security

Cleveland, Ohio

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Job Summary
This role supports our banking client’s AI-Ready Cyber Resilience program by providing BAU augmentation for cyber detection and automation engineering within the Cyber Detection and Automation team. The engineer will sustain and enhance current Cortex XSOAR / XSIAM operations, ensuring playbooks, automations, scripts, correlation rules, parsing logic, and XDM data models remain effective, scalable, and aligned to evolving enterprise security needs.

This is a hands-on technical engineering role focused on keeping detection content healthy, improving automation quality, addressing platform enhancements/defects, and enabling new data source normalization and content coverage.

Top 3 Priorities in First 90 Days

  1. Stabilize and sustain current XSOAR / XSIAM content operations
    • Triage and resolve tuning requests, bug fixes, and enhancement requests.
    • Maintain playbooks, automation rules, scripts, reports, dashboards, and correlation logic.
  2. Manage intake workflow from ServiceNow through JIRA backlog
    • Work incoming requests through a structured Kanban process.
    • Prioritize sustainment work and ensure operational responsiveness.
  3. Improve data source onboarding and normalization
    • Update parsing rules using regex.
    • Create and maintain XDM data models for sources that currently lack standardized mappings.

Required Skills (Must-Haves)

  • 4–8+ years total experience – mid-level to senior engineer
  • Must be capable of working independently in a technically complex BAU environment
  • Direct hands-on experience with Cortex XSOAR and Cortex XSIAM
  • Experience building, tuning, and sustaining:
    • correlation rules
    • playbooks
    • automations
    • automation rules
    • dashboards
    • reports
    • scripts (Python)
  • Experience handling operational sustainment / BAU support in a SOC, detection engineering, or security platform engineering environment
  • Experience with parsing using regex
  • Experience building, updating, or supporting XDM data models
  • Ability to manage an engineering intake process from ServiceNow into a JIRA backlog / Kanban board
  • Strong troubleshooting and prioritization skills in a high-volume request environment
  • Experience in any banking / fintech / payments regulated enterprise security environment

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Familiarity with SIEM/SOAR content lifecycle management
  • Experience with data source onboarding, log normalization, and telemetry integration
  • Exposure to SOC use cases, detection tuning, and alert quality improvement
  • Experience supporting enterprise dashboards and reporting in XSIAM/XSOAR
  • Understanding of security operations processes and incident response workflows
  • Familiarity with API integrations or Python-based platform extensions

Ideal Background

  • Large enterprise SOC Engineering / Detection Engineering teams
  • Financial services cybersecurity organizations
  • Security consulting firms supporting Palo Alto Cortex implementations
  • Cyber automation teams supporting XSOAR / XSIAM / SIEM / SOAR platforms
  • Managed detection / security engineering teams with strong sustainment responsibility

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