Senior SOAR Engineer: Automation & API Integrations

Centene Management Company LLC; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene is seeking a Senior SOAR Engineer/Developer to design, develop, and maintain security orchestration and automation workflows, build playbooks, Python automations, and REST API integrations that connect security technologies and automate incident response.

You will partner with cybersecurity teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions, optimize playbooks for reliability, and ensure secure development practices throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience.
• Experience developing security automation or orchestration solutions.
• Strong Python scripting and development skills.
• Experience working with JSON and REST APIs.
• Experience integrating applications and security technologies.
• Understanding of security operations, incident response, and security alert workflows.
• Experience troubleshooting API, scripting, authentication, and integration issues.
• Familiarity with Git and modern software development practices.
• Ability to translate manual or semi-manual processes into reliable automated workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation workflows.
• Develop integrations between the SOAR platform and security technologies using REST APIs, Python, JSON.
• Automate repetitive security operations and incident-response activities.
• Develop workflows that enrich security alerts with contextual information and orchestrate actions across multiple security platforms.
• Partner directly with cybersecurity teams to understand existing processes, identify automation opportunities, and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Develop custom automation and integrations when pre-built SOAR capabilities do not meet business or technical requirements.
• Optimize existing playbooks, scripts, and integrations for reliability, maintainability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex automation, API, integration, and workflow issues.
• Maintain technical documentation for playbooks, scripts, integrations, data mappings, and automation workflows.
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, and quality-control processes before automation is promoted into production.
• Follow secure development practices and organizational security standards throughout the development lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate existing automations and identify opportunities to improve or simplify security processes.

Skills

Python

JSON

REST APIs

Security operations

SOAR platforms

Git

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field

Tools

Tines

SIEM

EDR

Job description

Centene is seeking a Senior SOAR Engineer/Developer to design, develop, and maintain security orchestration and automation workflows, build playbooks, Python automations, and REST API integrations that connect security technologies and automate incident response.

You will partner with cybersecurity teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions, optimize playbooks for reliability, and ensure secure development practices throughout the lifecycle.