AI‑Driven Security Automation Engineer

empower; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain Python-based automation that strengthens cybersecurity and improves operational efficiency. You will work with governance, risk, threat management, and cloud security teams to transform requirements into reliable, scalable automation across tools and platforms.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled security automation using large language models and MCP, with emphasis on governance, secure integrations, and guardrails.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on software development or equivalent experience.

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 ambiguous requirements, document solution 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, including systems without native integrations.
• 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 Model Context Protocol (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, operational support, shared tooling, reusable modules, engineering documentation, and development practices that improve security, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and governance.

Skills

Python

API integration

Git

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Large language models

MCP

Cloud platforms

IaC

Debugging

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Cloud SDKs

Job description

Empower is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain Python-based automation that strengthens cybersecurity and improves operational efficiency. You will work with governance, risk, threat management, and cloud security teams to transform requirements into reliable, scalable automation across tools and platforms.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled security automation using large language models and MCP, with emphasis on governance, secure integrations, and guardrails.