Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation

F5; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation to design, review, and operate production-grade automation and AI capabilities for Security Operations. You will work within the SOPE team to enable Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Threat Hunting teams to operate more efficiently.

The ideal candidate combines strong software and automation engineering with practical AI experience and the judgment to safely deploy systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering/Info Security.
• 8+ years in software/platform/security/automation domains.
• Advanced Python and GitLab CI/CD expertise in production pipelines and IaC.
• Experience building API-driven integrations with REST, OAuth, pagination, and error handling.
• Experience designing and operating AI-assisted/agentic/LLM-powered solutions with safeguards.
• Strong ability to document designs, ADRs, and deployment plans; collaborate asynchronously.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation and AI capabilities to scale security operations.
• Review CI/CD pipelines, workflows, and AI-enabled systems with production impact.
• Build and maintain API-driven integrations across security tools and cloud services.
• Lead AI-assisted workflows for investigation, enrichment, and response with guardrails.
• Establish engineering standards for automation development, testing, and change management.
• Collaborate with IR, Detection, Threat Intelligence, and platform teams on high-value use cases.
• Evaluate AI/automation technologies balancing innovation, risk, and maintainability.

Skills

Python

GitLab CI/CD

REST APIs

OAuth

AI agent workflows

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

LangChain

Vertex AI

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation is responsible for designing, reviewing, and operating production-grade automation and AI capabilities that improve the effectiveness, scalability, and reliability of Security Operations. As part of the Security Operations Platform Engineering (SOPE) team, this role develops the platforms, integrations, workflows, and agentic systems that enable Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Threat Hunting teams to operate more efficiently. The ideal candidate combines strong software and automation engineering fundamentals with practical AI experience and the judgment required to safely deploy systems that influence security operations at scale. This role serves as a senior technical contributor responsible for establishing trusted, maintainable, and secure automation capabilities that other security functions depend upon.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade automation and AI capabilities that reduce operational toil, improve security outcomes, and scale security operations workflows across the organization.
• Review and approve CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows, integrations, and AI-enabled systems that interact with production security platforms, incident management processes, and operational data.
• Build and maintain API-driven integrations across security technologies, cloud services, AI platforms, and operational tooling while ensuring reliability, security, and observability.
• Lead implementation of agentic and AI-assisted workflows that support investigation, enrichment, correlation, triage, and response activities while maintaining appropriate guardrails, auditability, and human oversight.
• Establish and promote engineering standards for automation development, testing, code review, change management, operational safety, and platform reliability.
• Partner with Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and platform engineering teams to identify high‑value use cases and deliver scalable automation and AI solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend AI, automation, and orchestration technologies by balancing innovation, risk, maintainability, operational impact, and long‑term ownership.

Required Skills / Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, security engineering, automation engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and GitLab CI/CD, including the ability to review, troubleshoot, and approve production automation pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows.
• Demonstrated experience building and supporting API-driven integrations utilizing REST APIs, OAuth/token-based authentication, pagination, rate limiting, error handling, and service-to-service communications.
• Experience designing, developing, or operating AI-assisted, agentic, or LLM-powered solutions with a demonstrated ability to validate outputs, identify failure modes, and implement safeguards.
• Strong written communication skills with experience producing design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), implementation plans, technical reviews, and collaborating effectively in asynchronous, distributed environments.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications

• Experience developing AI agents and workflows using Vertex AI, Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen.