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Title: Senior Security Automation Engineer
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation that reduces manual effort, suppresses operational noise, and accelerates cyber defense outcomes.
This role focuses on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will build safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field
6 years of experience in security engineering or security automation
Strong experience building production-grade automation systems
Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, PowerShell, or similar)
Solid understanding of:
Security operations workflows
Alert enrichment and suppression
Containment and response patterns
Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems
Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable
Preferred Qualifications
Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data platforms
Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM, ticketing, or orchestration engines)
Experience designing rollback, TTL, and staged enforcement models
Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision outputs
Experience building dashboards or metrics for automation outcomes
What Success Looks Like
Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload
Suppression of alert and ticket noise through effective automation patterns
Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains
Automation actions that are trusted due to strong logging, safety controls, and transparency
Recognition as a senior engineer who enables scalable, enterprise-safe automation
Note:
100% remote.
West Coast candidates(not preferred)
Responsibilities
Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across security domains
Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions
Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, and containment workflows
Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration or approvals are required
Implement safety controls including:
Kill switches
Dry-run and test modes
Time-limited actions
Staged deployments (development, testing, production)
Ensure observability and auditability by logging automation actions with correlation identifiers
Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams
Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions
Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation that reduces manual effort, suppresses operational noise, and accelerates cyber defense outcomes.
This role focuses on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will build safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field
6 years of experience in security engineering or security automation
Strong experience building production-grade automation systems
Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, PowerShell, or similar)
Solid understanding of:
Security operations workflows
Alert enrichment and suppression
Containment and response patterns
Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems
Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable
Preferred Qualifications
Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data platforms
Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM, ticketing, or orchestration engines)
Experience designing rollback, TTL, and staged enforcement models
Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision outputs
Experience building dashboards or metrics for automation outcomes
What Success Looks Like
Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload
Suppression of alert and ticket noise through effective automation patterns
Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains
Automation actions that are trusted due to strong logging, safety controls, and transparency
Recognition as a senior engineer who enables scalable, enterprise-safe automation
Note:
100% remote.
West Coast candidates(not preferred)
Responsibilities
Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across security domains
Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions
Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, and containment workflows
Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration or approvals are required
Implement safety controls including:
Kill switches
Dry-run and test modes
Time-limited actions
Staged deployments (development, testing, production)
Ensure observability and auditability by logging automation actions with correlation identifiers
Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams
Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions
Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices
Salary : $70 - $81