Security Automation Engineer

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🔥 15 hours ago

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

💵 $105.7k - $149.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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📋 Description

• Develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain Python-based security automation solutions. • Partner with cybersecurity teams to understand operational challenges, clarify ambiguous requirements, document solution designs, align with stakeholders, and validate functionality. • Build Python applications, services, APIs, workflows, internal tools, integrations, and reusable libraries. • Develop API-driven integrations across security tools, cloud platforms, authentication systems, source code platforms, third-party services, and internal technologies. • Build security and compliance automation that collects, compares, validates, and acts on data. • Develop and support AI-enabled security automation using large language models and Model Context Protocol (MCP), including secure integrations, AI governance controls, and usage guardrails. • Contribute to agentic security capabilities, including automated source-code analysis for vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and infrastructure-standard compliance. • Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, automated testing, documentation, and refactoring while validating generated output. • Troubleshoot application code, APIs, identity and authentication, cloud infrastructure, data flows, and automation runtime environments. • Collaborate through code reviews, operational support, shared tooling, reusable modules, engineering documentation, and development practices that improve security, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and governance.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. • 3+ years of hands-on software development or equivalent experience. • Proficiency in Python, including developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining reliable production-quality code. • Experience building API-driven applications and integrations, including authentication, pagination, error handling, retries, and logging. • Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code review, dependency management, and maintainable software design. • Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and refactoring, including independently validating generated output. • Hands-on experience with large language models and understanding or developing Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based capabilities. • Experience building or supporting automation in one or more cloud platforms, with understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native development concepts. • Ability to work effectively with incomplete or ambiguous requirements and independently investigate unfamiliar tools, APIs, and technical environments. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, and collaboration skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-software-development stakeholders and taking ownership of assigned work. • Experience with GitLab, cybersecurity automation, cybersecurity functions, AI-enabled security automation, agentic security capabilities, MCP-based integrations, or AI governance controls is advantageous. • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; employment visa sponsorship is unavailable. • Reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection and an adequate home work environment for remote work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all. • Bonus program opportunity for non-sales positions • Reliable high-speed internet and wired connection required for remote work; necessary computer equipment provided

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