Security Automation Engineer
TransUnion2 months ago
Base Salary
$113k - $188k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, maintenance, and migration of security response automations and Splunk SOAR playbooks.
- Build agentic AI workflows covering prompt and agent design, tool integration, guardrails, output evaluation, and human review.
- Develop integrations across SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence, case management, and ITSM platforms.
- Build Python-based internal tools, services, and APIs to reduce repetitive work for security analysts.
- Administer and improve the case management platform and its supporting workflows.
- Partner with detection engineering teams to convert detections into automated response workflows.
- Use Git-based development, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- Measure automation effectiveness and create technical documentation and runbooks.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, security automation, or software engineering with a strong cybersecurity focus.
- Hands-on experience with SOAR or security automation platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Tines, or Torq.
- Experience with LLM platforms such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Amazon Bedrock, including agent design, prompt design, tool use, and output evaluation.
- Knowledge of SOC operations, incident response workflows, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Strong production-level Python development experience.
- Experience developing REST API integrations, JSON-based services, webhooks, and event-driven solutions.
- Knowledge of OAuth, API keys, secrets management, and secure integration patterns.
- Experience with APIs, SDKs, and tool-use patterns for LLM-powered tools, integrations, workflows, or agents.
- Preferred experience includes autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, LLM fine-tuning, systematic evaluations, safety testing, red-teaming, Splunk Enterprise Security, SPL, detection logic, detection-as-code, ServiceNow, FastAPI, Flask, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, front-end development, or technical mentoring.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least two days per week at an assigned TransUnion office.
- Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA and FSA options.
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance, disability coverage, and optional legal, pet, and travel insurance.
- Adoption, fertility, caregiver, dependent-care, and up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave support.
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial wellness resources, and career coaching.
- Tuition reimbursement, flexible or paid time off, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, employee discounts, charitable matching, and paid volunteer time.
- 24/7 therapy, coaching, emotional well-being, meditation, and wellness resources.
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About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global credit bureau and information-services company that provides credit data, identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk analytics to businesses and consumers. It sells data, APIs, and decisioning software used by lenders, insurers, telecoms, and other regulated industries, and offers consumer credit reports and monitoring. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Chicago, it operates in more than 30 countries and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker TRU.