Cyber Detection & Automation Engineer (XSOAR / XSIAM Content Engineering)
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Information Security
Cleveland, Ohio [job_pay_with_icon]
Contract
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
- 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.
- Manage intake workflow from ServiceNow through JIRA backlog
- Work incoming requests through a structured Kanban process.
- Prioritize sustainment work and ensure operational responsiveness.
- 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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