Security Automation Engineer

• 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., * 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: 1. Kill switches 2. Dry-run and test modes 3. Time-limited actions 4. 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.

• 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: 1. Security operations workflows 2. Alert enrichment and suppression 3. Containment and response patterns
• Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems.
• Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable.

Preferred:

• 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.