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Summary
Bering Straits Professional Service (BSPS), a company within the BSNC family is currently seeking a qualified Automation Engineer/SOC Lead for a remote position on a government contract. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Automation Engineer / SOC Lead to oversee and lead the Security Operations Center (SOC) while designing and implementing automation solutions to streamline security workflows. This role is ideal for someone with deep technical expertise in security operations and a strong background in scripting, orchestration, and automation tools such as SOAR platforms, SIEM, and custom API integrations. Wage/Salary Range:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC).
- Coordinate and oversee incident detection, response, analysis, and remediation efforts.
- Manage and mentor a team of SOC analysts and engineers.
- Establish, monitor, and report on SOC KPIs and SLAs.
- Create and maintain playbooks for incident response and escalation procedures.
Bering Straits Professional Service (BSPS), a company within the BSNC family is currently seeking a qualified Automation Engineer/SOC Lead for a remote position on a government contract. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Automation Engineer / SOC Lead to oversee and lead the Security Operations Center (SOC) while designing and implementing automation solutions to streamline security workflows. This role is ideal for someone with deep technical expertise in security operations and a strong background in scripting, orchestration, and automation tools such as SOAR platforms, SIEM, and custom API integrations. Wage/Salary Range: 90-100K
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned.
SOC Leadership
- Lead day-to-day operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC).
- Coordinate and oversee incident detection, response, analysis, and remediation efforts.
- Manage and mentor a team of SOC analysts and engineers.
- Establish, monitor, and report on SOC KPIs and SLAs.
- Create and maintain playbooks for incident response and escalation procedures.
- Design and implement security automation using SOAR (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR) and scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
- Develop playbooks to automate repetitive SOC tasks (alert triage, enrichment, notifications, remediation).
- Integrate various cybersecurity tools (SIEM, EDR, firewall, threat intel platforms) via APIs.
- Build dashboards and reporting tools for real-time monitoring and analytics.
- Continuously improve incident response efficiency through automation and orchestration.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Technical Skills:
- Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel).
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python highly preferred).
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001).
- Experience with SOAR platforms and API integrations.
- Familiarity with endpoint security, network security, cloud security tools (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- 3+ years of experience working in a SOC or security operations team.
- Excellent incident management and investigation skills.
- Ability to mentor and develop team members.
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with working with senior management both corporate and government.
- Hands on experience with MS office suite
- Ability to track PTO and create work schedules
- Certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, CEH, or equivalent.
- Experience in DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Knowledge of threat hunting methodologies and tools.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Employee must maintain a constant state of mental alertness at all times. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.
- This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.
Work Environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- The job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily in a modern office setting. Occasional travel may be required.
- This position supervises employees
As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain the appropriate clearance levels required and be able to obtain access to military installations.
Shareholder Preference
BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.
Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
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Job function
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