Automation/ QA Engineer

Senior Security Automation Engineer

Guidewire is looking for an Automation Engineer on our Security Operations’ Tools and Detection Engineering team. This role will challenge you to become a true force-multiplier, assisting the security research team through designing and building threat centric application workflows, process automations, and drive organic development initiatives as well as serving to assess and prioritize enhancement requests. The Security Automation Engineer will partner with other teams within the wider Security Organization, to build tooling and workflows that improve our security posture.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement SOC (Security Operation Center) and Incident Response systems integrations through automation and orchestration including Rest API, PowerShell, and Python in AWS
  • Develop web interfaces to consume event/data streams and provide user interfaces to fetch, query and modify security team’s data from various tools
  • Translate analyst and researcher feature requirements and/or PoC (Proof of Concept) scripts and tools into full-fledged features, driving process automation
  • Serve as the Security Operations team's software engineering subject matter expert
  • Work with existing deployment infrastructure to regularly deploy releases using modern tools such as git and CI/CD (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Collaborate with stakeholders within and outside the InfoSec team globally in designing, assessing, and implementing automated security controls to improve the overall security posture of our Infrastructure.
  • Document’s security tools, diagrams and systems, trains Security Operations staff on tool use, and supports the day-to-day SecOps staff in the security mission
  • Develops and publishes metrics and dashboards demonstrating our security posture, event activity and to drive operational improvements
  • 2 years demonstrated success working in a software engineering role
  • Full stack development mindset, the ability to fail fast and learn faster, and a drive to execute by building ever better solutions
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience working on remote teams
  • Basic knowledge towards security technologies, cloud security and incident response.
  • Strong analytical, design, engineering, planning, and problem-solving skills combined with an interest and passion towards security