Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
As a Senior Response Automation Engineer at Elastic you will work to enhance and maintain the workflows supporting Elastic front-line defenders, assisting the team delivering safe and secure products and services to our customers, users, and fellow Elasticians. Currently, the Threat Detection and Response Team heavily relies on automation - we have developed many integrations and intelligent workflows to provide alert context, take action automatically, and more. This has resulted in significant time savings and efficiencies.
Our ability to continue to enhance existing workflows and develop new ones to take us to the next level in our SOC-less journey. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding, maintaining, and improving threat detection and response processes, working on automations that support alert triage through management of response cases. If doing all of this with the Elastic Stack excites you, then we’d love to meet you!
What You Will Be Doing- Drive the full lifecycle of automation development, from design to maintenance, to significantly advance our threat detection and response capabilities.
- Optimize and automate core SOC/IR analyst workflows, focusing on delivering rich alert context and efficient triage processes across all detection sources, including the Elastic Detection Engine.
- Establish automated feedback mechanisms that empower the Threat Detection team to continuously refine detections, identify false positives, and uncover new enrichment and automation opportunities.
- Build and manage integrations across security tools and platforms to create seamless workflows and enhance data correlation for comprehensive threat detection and response.
- Architect and implement automated incident response playbooks for effective containment, eradication, and recovery in various threat scenarios.
- Serve as a key automation expert, partnering with security analysts and incident responders to transform manual security operations into highly efficient, automated processes.
- Innovate and document best practices for detecting, responding to, and eradicating advanced threats, focusing on reducing overall time to response.
- Ensure the integrity and effectiveness of all workflows through rigorous testing and validation.
- Collaborate strategically with Threat Detection and Response leadership to identify critical areas for enhancement and execute impactful improvement initiatives.
- At least 3 years of experience related to automation engineering in a complex, global environment. Automation experience focused on security operations / incident response is a plus.
- Experience with automating with Security Operations and Response (SOAR) tools or alternative tools supporting similar workflows. Tines experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to take complex / manual processes and solve them through automation. If you’ve done this with the help of the Elastic Stack, even better!
- Demonstrated ability to think innovatively about solving critical security problems.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to make sound decisions with limited information, and embrace challenging the status quo.
- Are eligible to work in DoD Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.
An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.
As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
- Generous number of vacation days each year
- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
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