AI-Driven Security Automation Engineer

Empower Retirement; Greenwood Village (CO); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Casual, business-casual environment

Generous PTO and holidays

Volunteer time off

BRGs and inclusion programs

Job summary

Empower Retirement is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and improve Python-based security automation and AI-enabled tooling. You will partner with cybersecurity teams to translate needs into scalable solutions, develop API-driven integrations, and ensure secure, auditable automation across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will work with large language models and MCP-based capabilities, apply best practices in CI/CD, and contribute to governance and security standards

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Python, including production-quality coding.
• Experience building API-driven applications and integrations.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and MCP-based capabilities.
• Experience building automation in one or more cloud platforms with IaC concepts.
• Ability to work with incomplete/ambiguous requirements and investigate unfamiliar tools and APIs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written and verbal skills; ability to explain technical concepts to non-developers.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain Python-based security automation solutions that improve cybersecurity capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to understand operational challenges, clarify requirements, document designs, align with stakeholders, and validate delivered functionality.
• Build reliable Python applications, services, APIs, workflows, internal tools, integrations, and reusable libraries using maintainable software engineering practices.
• 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, including validation of cloud resources against required security tooling and configuration standards.
• Develop and support AI-enabled security automation using large language models and MCP, including secure integrations, AI governance controls, and usage guardrails.
• Contribute to agentic security capabilities, including automated analysis of source code for security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and compliance with infrastructure standards.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, automated testing, documentation, and refactoring while independently reviewing and validating generated output.
• Troubleshoot issues across application code, APIs, identity and authentication, cloud infrastructure, data flows, and automation runtime environments, independently investigating unfamiliar technologies and resolving blockers.
• Collaborate through code reviews, shared tooling, reusable modules, engineering documentation, and development practices that improve security, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and governance.

Skills

Python

APIs

Git

CI/CD

Automated testing

Code review

Dependency management

Maintainable design

AI tools

LLMs

MCP

Cloud platforms

IaC

Ambiguity handling

Analytical thinking

Education

CS/Cybersecurity degree or equivalent

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

GitLab

Job description

Empower Retirement is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and improve Python-based security automation and AI-enabled tooling. You will partner with cybersecurity teams to translate needs into scalable solutions, develop API-driven integrations, and ensure secure, auditable automation across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will work with large language models and MCP-based capabilities, apply best practices in CI/CD, and contribute to governance and security standards