Senior Security Automation Lead: AI-Driven Defense

ntrs; Limerick; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Development & Automation to hands-on engineer automation-first security capabilities. You will design AI-enabled workflows, API integrations and playbooks to strengthen cyber defense and reduce manual effort.

Collaborate across security engineering, operations, infrastructure, risk, audit and technology teams to translate high-value workflows into automated solutions that improve threat response, evidence collection and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, security automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering or related technology disciplines.
• Strong understanding of how development and automation can be used to protect enterprise environments, improve control execution and reduce operational risk.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior technical contributor: supporting solution design, contributing to architecture discussions, delivering complex technical work and helping drive adoption through collaboration and practical execution.
• Hands-on development skills in Python, including API consumption, data transformation, automation frameworks, error handling, testing and operational supportability.
• Experience integrating security, ITSM, cloud, identity, observability or data platforms through REST APIs, webhook

Responsibilities

• Protect Northern Trust Through Security Driven Development and Automation
• Engineer AI agent-based workflows that support security triage, enrichment, correlation, investigation support, evidence collection, control validation and remediation orchestration.
• Create secure API integrations across security platforms, ITSM, CMDB, vulnerability management, cloud, network, identity, data and observability tools to connect signals, decisions and actions.
• Develop reliable workflow automation assets that remove friction from security operations and make high-value controls easier to operate at scale.
• Partner with security architecture, platform engineering, cloud security, IAM, threat and governance teams to apply reusable automation standards, secure engineering patterns, guardrails and operational handoffs.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Software engineering

Security automation

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

Infrastructure automation

Tools

REST APIs

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Lead, Security Development & Automation to hands-on engineer automation-first security capabilities. You will design AI-enabled workflows, API integrations and playbooks to strengthen cyber defense and reduce manual effort.

Collaborate across security engineering, operations, infrastructure, risk, audit and technology teams to translate high-value workflows into automated solutions that improve threat response, evidence collection and operational resilience.