Sr Security Automation Engineer

Senior Security Automation Engineer

Role Overview

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 is focused on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will deliver safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Security Automation Engineering

• Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across multiple security domains.

• Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions.

• Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, containment, and response workflows.

• Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration, approvals, or human-in-the-loop controls are required.

Safety, Observability & Reliability

• Implement robust 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 appropriate correlation identifiers.

• Design automation that is explainable, transparent, and safe to operate at scale.

Platform Integration & Reuse

• Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams and security domains.

• Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices for secure, scalable automation.

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 roles.

• Proven experience building and operating production-grade automation systems.

• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or PowerShell.

• Strong understanding of:

  • Security operations workflows

  • Alert enrichment and suppression techniques

  • Containment and response patterns

• Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security platforms.

• Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM systems, ticketing tools, orchestration engines).

• Experience designing rollback mechanisms, time-to-live (TTL), and staged enforcement models.

• Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision or recommendation outputs.

• Experience building dashboards, metrics, or reporting to measure automation outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload.

• Effective suppression of alert and ticket noise through scalable automation patterns.

• Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains.

• Automation actions that are trusted due to strong safety controls, logging, and transparency.

• Recognition as a senior engineer who enables secure, enterprise-safe automation at scale.