Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer
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- Plano, TX
- 6+ years
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
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Skills
Required
- automation
- Cybersecurity
- cybersecurity engineering
- security automation
- SOC engineering
- AI
- SIEM/SOAR development
- Python
- PowerShell
- REST APIs
- cloud automation
- integration development
Preferred
- Tines
- SOC automation
- workflow orchestration
- AI/LLM
- Detection-as-Code
- CI/CD pipelines
- MITRE
- ATT&CK / ASIM / Sigma Rules / observability
- AI/ML-assisted security tools
- prompt engineering
Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer ・Client: Japanese IT Company ・Working Location: Plano TX ・Employment Type : Contract W-2 （No C2C） ・Visa Support: NO ・Working Hours: Business Hours (CT) ・Language: English ▶ ︎ Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain security automation across SIEM/SOAR platforms to streamline alert enrichment, correlation, incident response, and case management. Develop automation and integrations using Python, PowerShell, APIs, and cloud-native technologies with production-quality monitoring, documentation, and error handling.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with SOC analysts, detection engineers, and incident responders to automate repetitive tasks, improve detection quality, and reduce false positives.
- Design and implement AI-assisted and agentic security workflows for investigation, enrichment, summarization, and decision support while ensuring human oversight and governance.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, compliance, and platform teams to establish automation standards, perform code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
- SOC operational efficiency by identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and enhance incident response capabilities.
Requirements
- Evaluate and implement emerging AI and automation technologies to strengthen security operations. ▶ ︎ The Right Candidate Will Possess 6–9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including hands-on experience with security automation and SOC engineering.
- Strong software engineering mindset with the ability to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable automation solutions.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional security and infrastructure teams.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to improve operational efficiency through automation.
- Strong communication, documentation, and mentoring abilities.
- Interest in leveraging AI technologies to modernize security operations while maintaining appropriate governance and security controls. ▶ ︎ Required Qualifications & Skills 6–9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including 3–4 years in security automation, SIEM/SOAR development, or SOC engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
- Strong proficiency with Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, cloud automation, and integration development.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms, preferably Microsoft Sentinel.
- Experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure Logic Apps, or similar Microsoft security technologies.
- Solid understanding of threat detection, logging pipelines, incident response workflows, alert tuning, and security operations metrics.
- Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred
- Qualifications Experience with Tines for SOC automation and workflow orchestration.
- Experience building Agentic SOC solutions using AI/LLM technologies.
- Knowledge of Detection-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, MITRE ATT&CK, ASIM, Sigma Rules, or observability platforms.
- Experience with AI/ML-assisted security tools, prompt engineering, and intelligent agents.
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate GIAC Security Automation Certification No C2C: We do not accept Corp-to-Corp (C2C) arrangements for this position.