Lead Engineer, Cyber Defense Automation
Job Summary
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Team Overview
At TransUnion we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration andinnovation. Were consistently exploring new technologies and tools. This environment gives our
people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities while discovering their
genius. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Role Overview And Core Responsibilities
What Youll Do:
- Design build and maintain security response automations on our agentic AI SOC platform and help lead the migration of existing Splunk SOAR playbooks
- Build agentic workflows end to end: prompt and agent design tool integration
- guardrails output evaluation and human-in-the-loop review for AI-driven triage and response
- Develop and maintain integrations across the security stack (SIEM EDR threat intelligence case management ITSM) using REST APIs webhooks and event-driven patterns
- Build internal tools services and APIs primarily in Python that extend platform capability and reduce analyst toil
- Administer and improve the case management platform and its workflows
- Partner with detection engineering to operationalize new detections into automated response
- Contribute to shared engineering standards: Git-based workflows code review testing and CI/CD
- Measure what you build: automation throughput MTTR false-positive burden and analyst time saved
- Write clear documentation and runbooks; collaborate effectively across a global distributed team
Required Knowledge And Experiences
What Youll Bring:
- 5 years in security engineering security automation or software engineering with a strong security focus
- Strong Python in production settings with solid command of REST
- APIs JSON webhooks and authentication patterns (OAuth API keys secrets handling)
- Hands-on experience with SOAR or security automation platforms
- (Splunk SOAR XSOAR Tines Torq or similar)
- Experience building with modern LLM platforms (Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI Amazon Bedrock or similar): using APIs SDKs and tool-use patterns to build tools integrations and agents with practical prompt and agent design and evaluation of model output for reliability and safety
- Software engineering fundamentals: Git code review automated testing CI/CD
- Working knowledge of SOC operations and incident response workflows; familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK
- Strong documentation habits and written communication; effective in a distributed global team
Wed Love to See:
- Experience with agentic AI security platforms or building autonomous
- or semi-autonomous agent systems in production
- Fine-tuning systematic evaluation (evals) or red-teaming of LLMs
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code Cursor
- Copilot) as part of a disciplined engineering workflow
- Splunk Enterprise Security exposure (SPL detection logic) or detec
- tion-as-code experience
- Case management or ITSM platform experience (ServiceNow or
- similar)
- Web service development (FastAPI Flask or similar); front-end expo
- sure a plus
- AWS Docker/Kubernetes Terraform; DevOps background
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical workstreams
TransUnion Overview:
At TransUnion we encourage and are committed to creating a real positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good which empowers our people to grow innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the drivers seat of their professional development while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; thats why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence.
Be a part of our Workforce for Good youll work with great people pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.
TransUnion Job Title
Lead Engineer Cybersecurity
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Company Overview TransUnion is a leading global risk and information solutions provider. Our mission is to help people worldwide access opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life. We accomplish this by delivering solutions that help organizations optimize their risk-based dec ... View more