SOAR Engineer: Cloud Security Automation & Response

Irish Life Group Services Limited; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined Contribution pension

Learning & Development support

Wellbeing initiatives

Bonuses

Job summary

Irish Life Group Services Limited is seeking a Security Automation and Orchestration (SOAR) Engineer in Dublin. This hybrid role combines home-based work with time in our City Centre offices, supporting CNAPP deployments, automation playbooks, and cloud security monitoring for on-prem and cloud environments.

You will work with SOC analysts, cloud engineers and development teams, delivering automated responses, dashboards in PowerBI, and scalable security controls in Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 3 years of progressive and relevant experience in hands-on cloud computing.
• At least 1 year of experience in Azure cloud platforms, tools and technologies.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs to support automation playbooks and integrations.
• Experience operating in a CI/CD environment.

Responsibilities

• Create, configure, run and maintain automation playbooks for SOAR.
• Review alerts from cloud security tooling and perform enrichment.
• Escalate suspicious or complex cases to senior analysts.
• Develop and maintain SOAR workflows and integrations with other tools.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts, cloud engineers and IT teams for automation.
• Maintain documentation for integrations and workflows.

Skills

Azure cloud

Automation

Scripting

SOAR

PowerBI

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Cloud security

Monitoring & incident response

Communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Azure Defender

Azure Sentinel

Azure ADF

VMware/Kubernetes

Job description

Irish Life Group Services Limited is seeking a Security Automation and Orchestration (SOAR) Engineer in Dublin. This hybrid role combines home-based work with time in our City Centre offices, supporting CNAPP deployments, automation playbooks, and cloud security monitoring for on-prem and cloud environments.

You will work with SOC analysts, cloud engineers and development teams, delivering automated responses, dashboards in PowerBI, and scalable security controls in Azure.