Automation Engineer — Cyber Defense & SIEM/SOAR

AV; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 112,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Holiday shutdown

Job summary

AV is seeking a Security Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automations across cybersecurity and enterprise platforms. The role focuses on speeding up security operations by automating tasks, integrating tools, and turning operational requirements into reliable engineering solutions.

The ideal candidate combines strong scripting and integration skills with knowledge of AI, security operations, incident response, and enterprise infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in security engineering, security automation, software development, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
• Practical experience integrating enterprise platforms through APIs, including authentication, JSON data handling, pagination, and error handling.
• Working knowledge of security operations, incident response processes, and common endpoint, identity, network, and cloud threats.
• Experience with SIEM or SOAR platforms and workflow orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with Git, code review, testing, and secure development practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex workflows and dependencies across multiple systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical solutions to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation workflows across SIEM, SOAR, endpoint security, identity, vulnerability management, cloud, and ticketing platforms.
• Develop integrations using REST APIs, web-hooks, SDKs, and scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell.
• Automate alert enrichment, investigation support, case creation, evidence collection, notifications, and incident response actions.
• Engineer workflows that correlate information across platforms to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and support faster security decisions.
• Partner with security analysts and incident responders to identify automation opportunities and translate operational playbooks into technical workflows.
• Automate vulnerability management activities, including asset enrichment, remediation ticket creation, ownership assignment, escalation, and closure validation.
• Build appropriate safeguards into automated actions, including approval requirements, access restrictions, validation checks, and rollback procedures.
• Implement secure authentication, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit logging for integrations and service accounts.
• Maintain automation code through version control, peer review, testing, documentation, and established change management processes.
• Monitor automation health, troubleshoot failures, and account for API limits, platform changes, retries, and exception handling.
• Document integration architectures, data flows, dependencies, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guidance.
• Measure automation effectiveness through time saved, execution reliability, reduced manual handling, and improved response times.
• Support security control implementation and audit readiness by automating evidence collection and reporting.
• Identify and implement opportunities to use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance security automation, including alert enrichment, investigation summaries, incident prioritization, and response recommendations.
• Integrate AI capabilities into security workflows with appropriate human oversight, data protection, output validation, and audit logging.
• Evaluate AI-assisted workflows for accuracy, reliability, and measurable improvements in analyst efficiency and response time.

Skills

Security engineering

Automation

Python

PowerShell

APIs

Git

Communication skills

Problem solving

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Git

REST APIs

JSON handling

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Functions

Jira

Job description

AV is seeking a Security Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automations across cybersecurity and enterprise platforms. The role focuses on speeding up security operations by automating tasks, integrating tools, and turning operational requirements into reliable engineering solutions.

The ideal candidate combines strong scripting and integration skills with knowledge of AI, security operations, incident response, and enterprise infrastructure.