Security Automation Engineer

Insight Global; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing firm is seeking a Security Automation Engineer for a hybrid role in Toronto on a 6-month contract. The successful candidate will join the automation engineering team to design and implement automation processes while collaborating with core product teams. This role requires strong experience in automation tools, including Splunk SOAR and Python, alongside a background in agile environments. Candidates must demonstrate effective communication skills and a proven ability to enhance security measures through automation.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in automation engineering.
• Strong experience with Splunk SOAR, Python, and Power Automate.
• Experience integrating third-party systems and APIs.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with CyberArk PAM or equivalent security tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver automation initiatives.
• Integrate automation processes with new products.
• Monitor reliability of automation initiatives.
• Create playbooks with pipelines and tests.

Skills

Automation Engineering

Splunk SOAR (Phantom)

Python

Power Automate

API Integration (REST/JSON)

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Communication Skills

Tools

Falcon Telemetry

CyberArk PAM

VS Code

Job description

Overview

Insight Global is looking for a Security Automation Engineer to join a large banking client on a 6 month contract hybrid 1 day/week in Toronto. The successful candidate will join the automation engineering team to design and ship automation while integrating automation processes with new products. The candidate should have experience with build/integrating automation with core platforms, engineering/reverse-engineering, and system design of automation platforms in agile environments.

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Responsibilities

• Design and ship automation initiatives; integrate automation processes with new products.
• Build/integrate automation with core platforms; engage in engineering/reverse-engineering and system design of automation platforms in agile environments.
• Instrument automations for reliability—monitor success rates, latency, error taxonomies, and run health; use signals to improve.
• Treat detections/playbooks as code with pipelines, linting, tests, and approvals (Within Splunk SOAR).

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience working in automation engineering for medium-large sized organizations.
• Strong automation experience with Splunk SOAR (Phantom), Python, and Power Automate (or similar workflow tools).
• Strong experience integrating API/third‑party systems (REST/JSON, OAuth/JWT), including ServiceNow (SNOW); able to reverse‑engineer integrations without official SDKs.
• Ability to write and optimize SPL, Lucene or KQL and familiarity with CIM, correlation searches, and creating automation‑ready outputs.
• Experience using Falcon telemetry and querying in LogScale to enrich investigations and drive automated decisions.
• Hands‑on experience with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps (ADO); Git branching strategies, PR reviews, test automation - any automation tool.
• Experience designing and operating secure secret/credential patterns in automation (CyberArk PAM or equivalent).
• Experience treating detections/playbooks as code with pipelines, linting, tests, and approvals; within Splunk SOAR.
• Previous experience working in an agile environment, attending sprint ceremonies, backlog hygiene, and solid documentation in Confluence/SharePoint/OneDrive.
• Experience with VS Code; experience with GitHub Copilot for accelerated, high‑quality development.
• Familiarity with aligning playbooks and automations to ATT&CK techniques/sub‑techniques.
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to prototype, evaluate options, and land creative solutions; prior experience in SOC, Incident Response (IR), or Red Team.
• Experience with security tools (EDR, email, IAM, network security) and ticketing/case management patterns.
• Experience establishing automation KPIs (coverage, time‑to‑complete, failure classes) and aligning them to MTTR and analyst throughput.