Cyber Security Automation Engineer

At AIG, we are reimagining the way we help customers to manage risk. Join us as a Cyber Security Automation Engineer to play your part in that transformation. It’s an opportunity to grow your skills and experience as a valued member of the team.

Make your mark in Information Technology

At AIG, technology is at the heart of everything we do, from underwriting risks to processing claims. The Information Technology team equips our employees with the latest tools to complete their work efficiently and with the highest standards of excellence. The team is responsible for shielding the company’s systems from security risks, while designing technology strategies that enable AIG’s businesses to achieve their goals. AIG’s Information Technology functions include application development and management, enterprise architecture, and technology risk and compliance.

How you will make an impact

AIG is seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Automation Engineer to join AIG’s Detect & Response team. The Cyber Security Automation Engineer is responsible for developing scalable, resilient, and high-availability automated solutions to collect and search against massive datasets in a complex, global environment. This engineer will be empowered to find ways to simplify activities for our cybersecurity employees and various teams by automating specific systems and alerting and monitoring processes with the key of improving AIG cybersecurity efficiencies across our various tools.

Major Job Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining security automation solutions protecting the organization from security threats
• Development of new automation solutions utilizing Python, Perl, Ruby, or other scripting languages
• Create and manage tests and simulations to ensure the systems work as intended
• Web application security testing
• Aptitude for learning and mastering tools and technologies
• Building automation, dashboards, correlations, key performance indicators, and other various SIEM knowledge objects to empower security operations by improving the quality of their threat detection capabilities
• Prioritize incoming requests to minimize risk exposure and ensure the timely completion of critical tasks and the escalation of time-sensitive issues.
• Leverage aggregated cyber threat intelligence, log, network flow, and anomaly data for analysis, research and the identification of potential compromise within AIG’s infrastructure or applications.
• Communicate effectively with other stakeholders of our incident response efforts, including representatives of the business units, technology specialists, vendors, and others.
• Contribute to our efforts to drive continuous improvement by recommending and collecting various key metrics for reporting to senior management.

What you'll need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
• An understanding of cyber security operations processes, procedures, guidelines and solutions, including practical experience of cyber kill chain principles
• Demonstrated success leveraging automation (e.g. Chef, AWS, Ansible), including bash/java/python scripting, to improve speed of infrastructure management and development
• Experience with aspects of AWS cloud architecture, including mechanisms for high availability, auto-scaling, and cost efficiency
• In-depth understanding of Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems, networking, malware defenses, and perimeter controls.
• Ability to contribute to the development of SIEM use cases.
• Strong oral and written communications skills (e.g., technical writing, user guide development, requirements analysis) and ability to interact effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, as well as present in front of small and large groups.
• Self-starter with a sense of urgency who takes ownership and responsibility for service delivery
• Works independently with minimal guidance to drive projects to completion, while also working collaboratively with the team to achieve strategic goals
• Professional, clear, and concise communication to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, prioritization, and consultative skills
• Proven organizational skills (time management and prioritization), and also employ a rigorous process for all follow-up / coordination activities
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment, balancing multiple incidents, special projects, and other activities.
• Ability to deal diplomatically and effectively at all levels of the business including both technical and non-technical staff, management and senior leadership.
• Willingness to support and develop junior team members while also delivering on candidate’s own responsibilities.
• Experience with security monitoring, event and anomaly analysis and intrusion detection/ prevention techniques.

Ready to make a bigger impact? We look forward to reviewing your application.

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Enjoy benefits that take care of what matters

At AIG, our people are our greatest asset. We know how important it is to protect and invest in what’s most important to you. That is why we created our Total Rewards Program, a comprehensive benefits package that extends beyond time spent at work to offer benefits focused on your health, wellbeing and financial security—as well as your professional development—to bring peace of mind to you and your family.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them to manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty and discover new potential. We invest in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). With global chapters, ERGs are a cornerstone for our culture of inclusion. The talent of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and we are honored that our drive for positive change has been recognized by numerous recent awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

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