Security Orchestration Engineer — Automate Threat Response

Huntington; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave

PTO

Job summary

Huntington is seeking a Security Automation and Orchestration Engineer to scale security operations through intelligent automation across our digital infrastructure. The role focuses on threat detection, incident response, and compliance automation, with hands-on work on SOAR platforms and CI/CD security integration.

The ideal candidate brings deep cybersecurity automation expertise, strong scripting skills, and a proven track record designing automation solutions for enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production support and IT automation.
• 5+ years of operational experience with security technologies or relevant automation environments.
• 5+ years of implementing technology lifecycles and best practices.
• Bachelor's Degree or 4+ years of equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation for security operations (SecOps) including threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Develop and maintain playbooks for SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, or Microsoft Sentinel.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for cybersecurity operations.
• Automate compliance checks and reporting for frameworks like NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls.
• Integrate security tools (SIEM, EDR, firewalls, IAM) into automated workflows.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead initiatives to reduce manual effort in security monitoring, alert triage, and remediation.
• Engage in automation strategy and mentor junior engineers.
• Participation in rotating on-call schedule

Skills

Security automation

Threat detection

Incident response

Playbooks development

CI/CD security

On-call rotation

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Cloud security automation (AWS, Azure,

Education

Bachelor's Degree or 4+ years equivalent experience

Tools

Splunk SOAR

Palo Alto XSOAR

Microsoft Sentinel

Wireshark

TCPdump

Job description

Huntington is seeking a Security Automation and Orchestration Engineer to scale security operations through intelligent automation across our digital infrastructure. The role focuses on threat detection, incident response, and compliance automation, with hands-on work on SOAR platforms and CI/CD security integration.

The ideal candidate brings deep cybersecurity automation expertise, strong scripting skills, and a proven track record designing automation solutions for enterprise environments.