Juniper Senior Staff Info Security Analyst - DB1013075 

United States, California 

417297336

Senior Staff, IT Info Security Analyst

About the role: This role will focus on leveraging hyper-automation principles and solutions (use of Machine learning, AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA)) to optimize security workflows, integrate diverse security tools, and reduce manual human intervention.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the “Cyber Champion” for relentless and purposeful automation, guiding and helping other Cyber team members to evolve and expand their “cyber automation mindset.”
• Engage with team members to collaborate, assess, evaluate, identify and automate repetitive cybersecurity tasks such as incident response, threat intelligence processing, and vulnerability management, with an objective of significantly reducing the human resource time otherwise spent on manual practices or processes.
• Design, develop, and implement automation solutions for security functions leveraging SOAR platform tools (e.g., Torq.io) and create a ‘Cyber Automation Architecture standard.’
• Lead the evaluation and deployment of hyper-automation strategy, prioritizing areas with high operational impact.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automation scripts using Python, PowerShell, Ansible , and other relevant languages, ensuring appropriate security, integrity of scripts, secrets/keys and permissions.
• Provide expert-level troubleshooting and problem resolution for security automation implementations, efficacy, optimization. Train and educate other junior team members to provide “bench depth” for automation support, problem & issues resolution.
• Continuously monitor, assess, and improve automation workflows to adapt to evolving threats and operational requirements.
• Determine key measures to quantify progress of automations and the resulting cumulative time-savings for team resources.
• Document processes, workflows, and best practices related to security automation.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 8 years proven and practical experience in the use, implementation and management of SOAR platforms and cyber automation enablement.
• Strong expertise in security automation and orchestration methodologies, including hyper-automation prioritization and execution.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Bash, or JavaScript .
• Experience integrating security automation with SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, threat intelligence platforms, and other security tools, workflows and functions.
• Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and other integration techniques for security tool interoperability.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and database architectures.
• Understanding of incident response, vulnerability management and threat intelligence processes and how automation can optimize these functions.
• Ability to assess and prioritize automation opportunities based on business impact and operational efficiency gains.
• Experience in leveraging AI/ML-based automation for security operations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail in designing secure automation workflows.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, constructively challenging ingrained and suboptimal practices that could or should be automated.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, GCIH, GCFA, or SOAR-related certifications (or training) .
• Familiarity with cloud security automation (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD automation .
• Expertise and knowledge of API security and corresponding automations in respect to discovery, visibility and vulnerability remediations is a plus.

Why Join Us?

• Champion and drive cybersecurity automation objectives.
• Opportunity to influence security operations strategy through automation.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Flexible work arrangements (onsite/remote/hybrid).
• Professional development opportunities and continuous learning.

Minimum Salary: $135,040.00

Maximum Salary:$242,650.00

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $135,040.00 and $242,650.00/year; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position also includes medical benefits, 401(k) eligibility, vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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