Security Automation Engineer (Python) - Cloud-Native AI

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Marlabs is seeking a Security Automation Engineer (Python) to design, build, and maintain production-grade automation solutions that enhance security operations. You will leverage your Python skills, cloud engineering experience, and security tooling knowledge to create scalable data pipelines and AI-augmented workflows across enterprise environments.

You will work with SAST/DAST, CNAPP/CSPM, SIEM, ITSM, and other security platforms while deploying on AWS and maintaining IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python development experience building production-grade applications, automation frameworks, and data pipelines.
• Strong experience with REST APIs, including OAuth/token-based authentication, pagination, rate limiting, retry logic.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services, including Lambda, ECS/Fargate, S3, IAM, API Gateway.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Git, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of application security concepts including OWASP Top 10 and secure coding practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based automation solutions, data pipelines, API integrations, workflow orchestration, and reporting capabilities for security and cloud operations.
• Integrate and automate enterprise security platforms using REST APIs.
• Build AI-assisted workflows to optimize security finding triage and reporting.
• Deploy and support cloud-native solutions on AWS (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, S3, IAM, API Gateway).
• Refactor and enhance existing automation frameworks; improve CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate security and business requirements into scalable software.

Skills

Python development

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Git

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

REST APIs

OAuth

Job description

Marlabs is seeking a Security Automation Engineer (Python) to design, build, and maintain production-grade automation solutions that enhance security operations. You will leverage your Python skills, cloud engineering experience, and security tooling knowledge to create scalable data pipelines and AI-augmented workflows across enterprise environments.

You will work with SAST/DAST, CNAPP/CSPM, SIEM, ITSM, and other security platforms while deploying on AWS and maintaining IaC practices.