Senior AI-Driven Security Automation Engineer

GCS Recruitment; Mount Laurel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks a Senior Security Automation Engineer to build AI-driven security automation solutions within a CSOC. You will design, develop, and deploy production-grade automation and AI-powered workflows to boost threat detection and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, agentic AI, and scalable automation across threat intel, hunting, and investigations. Collaborative, production-focused, with guardrails and testing for reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software or security engineering.
• Proven ability to build production-grade automation and AI-powered security solutions.
• Experience with Python and integrating APIs, tools, and data sources.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production-grade security automation and AI-powered workflows.
• Build AI agents capable of accessing security data, using tools, maintaining context, and executing multi-step tasks.
• Automate processes across Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, Security Investigations, Incident Response, and Security Data Analysis.
• Apply advanced AI techniques including Tool Calling, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Structured Generation, Planning & Reflection, Verification, Model Routing, and Multi-Agent Coordination.
• Design memory, context management, task recovery, escalation, and human approval mechanisms.

Skills

Python

Security Automation

AI/ML

LLMs

Agentic AI

APIs

Kubernetes

Distributed Systems

Education

B.S. in CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

SOAR

SIEM

Job description

GCS Recruitment seeks a Senior Security Automation Engineer to build AI-driven security automation solutions within a CSOC. You will design, develop, and deploy production-grade automation and AI-powered workflows to boost threat detection and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, agentic AI, and scalable automation across threat intel, hunting, and investigations. Collaborative, production-focused, with guardrails and testing for reliability.