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This is a hybrid position at either our Milwaukee office or our New York City office. ( The Milwaukee office requires onsite M, T, and W or in our NYC office on Thursday plus 1 other day.)

What are we looking for?

A highly motivated Security Automation Engineer with experience in ServiceNow development to join NM's Security Automation team. As a member of the Security Automation team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining a continuous and sustainable security automation pipeline to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy of detection and response capabilities and reduce manual tasks for the Cybersecurity teams. This role requires a mix of coding skills, a strong understanding of the ServiceNow platform from a developer's perspective, experience in web application development, and security domain expertise.

• Analyze the technical development requirements and develop integrations between the ServiceNow security modules and 3rd-party tools and APIs used by the Cybersecurity teams.

• Configure ServiceNow and implement best practices in coding and design as per the ServiceNow standards and best practices.

• Collaborate with NM's ServiceNow Platform SRE team to ensure quality and stability of integrations.

• Provide checkouts during ServiceNow module and platform upgrades.

• Identify opportunities to automate workflows/processes related to security events through ServiceNow or SOAR playbooks

• Assist with the ongoing enhancement to the organization's case management system to decrease response times, increase effectiveness and streamline security operations.

• Assist with the design, engineering, deployment, and maintenance of custom automation tools (primarily in Python, and PowerShell)

• Assist with the development of dashboards and metrics within the organization's case management system.

• Maintain and improve the team's products, infrastructure, and technology stack.

• Develop and maintain documentation related to the automation of workflows related to detection/response procedures for security events.

• 2-4 years of professional experience developing on the ServiceNow platform including the creation, configuration and/or customization of ServiceNow products such as ITSM, ITOM, SecOps, etc

• Strong knowledge of the ServiceNow Platform as a product, modules, data model, tables, and capabilities

• Experience developing & administrating on a ServiceNow Platform including working with Workflows, Flows, Business Rules, Script Includes, UI Policies, Client Scripts, Catalog Items & Record Producers, Groups, Roles, Tables

• 2-4 years of professional experience with JavaScript, HTML/CSS, AJAX, and Python.

• Relational database expertise in relation to an enterprise software system (Postgres, MS SQL)

• Comfortable with REST API best practices and usage.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with a technical and non-technical audience.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Experience with the ServiceNow Security Incident Response (SIR) module.

• Experience with security automation and orchestration tools and/or software development technologies.

• Practical experience with automation techniques using PowerShell, Bash, API calls, and regular expressions

• Additional coding experience in one or more programming languages - Java, C++, Go

• Experience with cloud services, DevOps, CI/CD environments

• Experience working in Security Operations, Incident Response, or Penetration Testing

• Active ServiceNow - Certified Application Developer certification

• Active ServiceNow - Certified System Administrator certification

• Active ServiceNow - Certified Implementation Specialist - Security Incident Response

Our Benefits!

• Tons of room for career growth.

• We offer highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities

• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

• We provide tuition reimbursement, PTO, and Holiday Pay

• We provide extensive Professional Training Opportunities

• We offer an excellent Work/Life Balance