SOC Automation Analyst - SOAR & Incident

About the role

Join Erste Digital's Cyber Defense Center to automate repeatable SOC activities, allowing analysts to focus on decisions that require human judgment. You will work with real security incidents and design solutions that detect, enrich, and respond more efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Identify investigation and response activities suitable for automation.
• Design, build and maintain SOAR playbooks for enrichment, triage, notification, containment and remediation.
• Integrate security and IT platforms through APIs, webhooks and connectors.
• Develop automation using Python, PowerShell or comparable technologies.
• Build reliable workflows with approval points, error handling, logging, permissions and monitoring.
• Analyze incidents to improve playbooks, automations and response procedures.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts, security engineers, threat intelligence specialists and service owners.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience investigating security alerts or incidents in SOC, incident response or security engineering environments.
• Experience automating security or operational processes using Python or comparable scripting technologies.
• Good understanding of APIs, integrations and security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, identity or cloud security.
• Sound judgment about what to automate, where human approval is needed and how to manage automation risk.
• Professional fluency in English.

Required skills

• Python
• PowerShell
• API integration
• SIEM
• EDR
• MITRE ATT&CK framework

What we offer

• Real ownership of automation projects and direct impact on security operations.
• Opportunities to eliminate repetitive work and improve scalable security processes.
• Access to a multinational team of security specialists and continuous learning.
• Health care benefits, sick‑leave compensation, sabbatical, paternity leave, extra holidays, 3rd pillar contribution and MultiSport card.
• Competitive performance‑related salary (minimum €2,700 gross per month) and referral program.