Fiserv
Threat Detection & Automation Engineer
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$110k-$186kDetected 8 hours ago
JavaScriptPythonBashPowerShellGitSQLCI/CDRESTOAuthMachine LearningAI OrchestrationStatisticsCybersecuritySIEMSOARUEBASOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseAgileFirewallResearchCommunicationCollaboration
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About the role
- As a Threat Detection & Automation Engineer, you will enable end-to-end detection engineering across telemetry onboarding, detection content development, response automation, and threat reporting within Cyber Security Operations at Fiserv.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-grade security detection infrastructure across Google SecOps and internal automation applications that support enrichment, orchestration, and response workflows.
- Lead telemetry and detection lifecycles, including source onboarding, parsing, normalization, enrichment, testing, deployment, tuning, and ongoing maintenance.
- Develop custom integrations, automations, and lightweight services using application programming interfaces (APIs), webhooks, and event-driven patterns to improve signal fidelity and reduce mean time to detect and mean time to respond.
- Apply Python, prompt-driven workflows, model context protocol (MCP) capabilities, and agent-to-agent orchestration patterns to support detection engineering, enrichment, and analytic decision support.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security operations, or detection engineering, including building and maintaining detections for enterprise security environments.
- 8+ years of experience scripting and automation development using Python, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages to support integrations, telemetry processing, and response workflows.
- Experience with Google SecOps in enterprise-scale detection engineering or security operations environments.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), Git-based workflows, and platform automation using tools such as Terraform.
Compensation
- $110,000.00 - $186,000.00
- These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.
- For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company's sole discretion.
Benefits
- No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
- Retirement planning including 401k match and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Tuition assistance and reimbursement program.
- Paid parental and military leave.
Equal opportunity
- Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
- If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application or otherwise participating in the overall hiring process, please contact AskHR.US@fiserv.com.
- Please note our AskHR representatives do not have visibility to your application status.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role.
- Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.
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