Security Automation Engineer

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🔥 16 hours ago

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

💵 $105.7k - $149.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain Python-based security automation solutions • Partner with cybersecurity teams to understand operational challenges, clarify 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 • Validate cloud resources against required security tooling and configuration standards • Develop and support AI-enabled security automation using large language models and Model Context Protocol (MCP) • Implement secure integrations, AI governance controls, usage guardrails, and agentic security capabilities • Automate source-code analysis for security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and infrastructure-standard compliance • Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, automated testing, documentation, and refactoring while validating 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 improved development practices

🎯 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 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 with incomplete or ambiguous requirements and independently investigate unfamiliar tools, APIs, and technical environments • Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, verbal, and collaboration skills • Ability to explain technical concepts to non-software-development stakeholders and take ownership of assigned work • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; employment visa sponsorship is unavailable, including CPT/OPT

🏖️ 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) facilitating inclusion and collaboration • Bonus program opportunity for non-sales positions • Reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection and a suitable home workspace for remote and hybrid positions • Necessary computer equipment provided