Senior AI-Driven Security Automation Engineer

cinter; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Japanese IT Company in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer to design and maintain automation across SIEM/SOAR platforms, leveraging Python, PowerShell, and cloud-native tech for incident response and case management.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts and incident responders to reduce false positives, enhance detection quality, and develop AI-assisted security workflows with governance and human oversight.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including 3–4 years in security automation, SIEM/SOAR development, or SOC engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• Strong proficiency with Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, cloud automation, and integration development.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms, preferably Microsoft Sentinel.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure Logic Apps, or similar Microsoft security technologies.
• Solid understanding of threat detection, logging pipelines, incident response workflows, alert tuning, and security operations metrics.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain security automation across SIEM/SOAR platforms to streamline alert enrichment, correlation, incident response, and case management.
• Develop automation and integrations using Python, PowerShell, APIs, and cloud-native technologies with production-quality monitoring, documentation, and error handling.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts, detection engineers, and incident responders to automate repetitive tasks, improve detection quality, and reduce false positives.
• Design and implement AI-assisted and agentic security workflows for investigation, enrichment, summarization, and decision support while ensuring human oversight and governance.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, compliance, and platform teams to establish automation standards, perform code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
• Continuously improve SOC operational efficiency by identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and enhance incident response capabilities.
• Evaluate and implement emerging AI and automation technologies to strengthen security operations.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

REST APIs

Cloud automation

SIEM/SOAR

SOC engineering

Automation mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML in security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

Azure Logic Apps

Tines

Job description

Japanese IT Company in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer to design and maintain automation across SIEM/SOAR platforms, leveraging Python, PowerShell, and cloud-native tech for incident response and case management.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts and incident responders to reduce false positives, enhance detection quality, and develop AI-assisted security workflows with governance and human oversight.