Senior Security Automation Engineer

Overview

Client is seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation. This role will develop production-ready workflows that reduce manual effort, suppress operational noise, and accelerate cyber defense across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across security domains.
• Build API- and service-based integrations that execute guardrail-enforced security actions.
• Automate detection, alert enrichment, suppression, containment, and response workflows.
• Integrate automation with enterprise workflow systems when orchestration or approvals are required.
• Implement kill switches, dry-run modes, test modes, time-limited actions, and staged deployments.
• Maintain observability and auditability through detailed logging and correlation identifiers.
• Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams.
• Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote security automation best practices.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Technologies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6 years of experience in security engineering or security automation.
• Strong experience building production-grade automation systems.
• Proficiency with Python, PowerShell, or a similar scripting or programming language.
• Experience integrating systems through APIs and services.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of security operations workflows.
• Knowledge of alert enrichment, alert suppression, containment, and response patterns.
• Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, observable, and auditable.

Preferred Skills or Experience

• Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security platforms.
• Familiarity with ITSM, ticketing, workflow, or orchestration platforms.
• Experience designing rollback, time-to-live, and staged enforcement models.
• Exposure to AI-assisted workflows that consume decision outputs.
• Experience developing dashboards or metrics that measure automation outcomes.
• Experience creating reusable security automation frameworks and connectors.

Work Details

• 100% remote

Nesco Resource offers a comprehensive benefits package for our associates, which includes a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.

Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.