Security Automation Engineer: AI‑Powered Ops & Rapid Response

AeroVironment, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 112,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

9/80 work schedule

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automations across cybersecurity platforms. You will automate repetitive tasks, connect tools via REST APIs, and translate operational requirements into reliable engineering solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-aware security automation and collaboration with analysts and engineers. Responsibilities include building scalable automation, ensuring secure authentication, and maintaining code with version control.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in security engineering, security automation, 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.
• Ability to prioritize work, manage competing requirements, and independently deliver maintainable solutions.
• 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

Python

PowerShell

API integration

SIEM/SOAR

Security automation

Git & code review

Incident response

Communication

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Git

REST APIs

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automations across cybersecurity platforms. You will automate repetitive tasks, connect tools via REST APIs, and translate operational requirements into reliable engineering solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-aware security automation and collaboration with analysts and engineers. Responsibilities include building scalable automation, ensuring secure authentication, and maintaining code with version control.