Principal Security Engineer, Orchestration and Automation

The Cyber Detection & Response Automation Engineer is responsible for building the automation, orchestration, and AI-driven capabilities that power the organization’s detection and response function. This role treats the SIEM as one component in a broader automation ecosystem - the primary focus is designing workflows, integrations, and intelligent tooling that reduce manual analyst effort, accelerate response, and scale detection coverage. The ideal candidate is an automation/orchestration engineer with a security background: comfortable building integrations and pipelines across multiple tools, applying AI/ML or LLM-assisted techniques to triage and enrichment, and engineering detection logic. This person will also maintain a working level of SIEM platform administration - data onboarding, health, and configuration - to support the automation and detection layers built on top of it, and will partner closely with Security Operations and the Detection Engineering Lead.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain orchestration workflows and SOAR playbooks that automate triage, enrichment, containment, and response actions across the security tool stack.
• Apply AI/ML and LLM-assisted techniques (e.g., automated alert summarization, natural-language investigation assistance, anomaly scoring) to reduce analyst workload and speed decision-making.
• Develop and maintain Python-based integrations and APIs connecting the SIEM, SOAR, EDR, ticketing, threat intel, and cloud platforms into unified automated workflows.
• Design, build, and tune SIEM correlation rules, alerts, and detection use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, with an eye toward which detections can be paired with automated response.
• Own core SIEM administration tasks needed to support automation and detection: data source onboarding, index/data model health, log ingestion monitoring, and configuration management.
• Build and maintain custom field extractions, parsers, and content packs to ensure new data sources are automation- and detection-ready.
• Continuously tune detections and automation logic to improve signal-to-noise ratio, reduce false positives, and reduce mean-time-to-respond (MTTR).
• Create dashboards and reporting that measure automation coverage, orchestration reliability, AI-assisted triage accuracy, and detection effectiveness.
• Apply CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to manage detection content, playbooks, and integrations as versioned, testable code.
• Evaluate and pilot new automation, orchestration, and AI tooling to expand the detection and response automation footprint.

• 5+ years building automation, orchestration, or SOAR playbooks in a cyber security or SOC environment.
• 3+ years of SIEM engineering or administration experience - data onboarding, correlation rule development, platform configuration.
• Strong Python (or comparable scripting) skills; experience building APIs/integrations across security and IT tooling.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML or LLM-based tooling applied to security use cases - triage, summarization, enrichment, and/or anomaly detection; experience building such capability strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and experience mapping detections/automation to adversary tactics and techniques.
• Experience with a SOAR or security orchestration platform (e.g., NG-SIEM Fusion, Splunk SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, Tines, or similar).
• Cloud security experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including automation for ingesting and processing security data from cloud sources.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and version-controlling detection/automation content.
• Familiarity with containerized and serverless environments and their automation/logging considerations.
• SIEM, SOAR, or security automation platform certification preferred.
• Regulatory compliance experience a plus.

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The starting base pay is $117,200.00 to $157,500.00. Blackbaud may pay more or less based on employee qualifications, market value, Company finances, and other operational considerations.

Benefits Include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote-flexible workforce
• Wellness Programs
• 401(k) program with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• Generous Parental Leave
• Donations for Doers
• Pet insurance, legal and identity protection
• Tuition reimbursement program

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