Senior Security Automation Engineer

Overview

The Senior Security Automation Engineer designs, builds, and operates security automation to scale security operations without scaling headcount at the same rate.

What you'll do

• Design automated playbooks for security scenarios including phishing triage, host isolation, and user offboarding.
• Build custom REST/gRPC connectors to integrate systems such as SIEM, EDR, and ticketing platforms.
• Develop ChatOps bots for self-service security tasks on internal collaboration platforms.
• Implement generative-AI workflows to parse tickets, summarize alerts, and extract indicators of compromise (IoCs).
• Monitor automation in production and own the automation lifecycle end to end.
• Apply judgment on where automation (including AI-driven automation) helps versus increases risk.

What you'll need

• 5–10 years combined experience in security engineering, security operations/incident response, or security-focused software engineering.
• 2+ years specifically building security automation, SOAR playbooks, or equivalent orchestration solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Golang focused on API interaction and data processing.
• Expert understanding of webhooks, RESTful design, and authentication methods (OIDC/OAuth/API keys).
• Practical SOAR experience using logic apps, serverless functions, or workflow engines to automate decision trees.
• Understanding of the incident-response lifecycle and standard data formats (JSON, YAML).

Details

• Location: Pune, India.