Senior AI-Driven Security Automation Engineer

Cinter Career Services, LLC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cinter Career Services, LLC in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer to design, build, and maintain security automation across SIEM/SOAR with production-quality monitoring and governance.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts and incident responders, developing integrations using Python, PowerShell, APIs, and cloud-native tech to automate operational tasks and reduce false positives.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience with hands‑on automation, SIEM/SOAR development, or SOC engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a 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 design

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure Logic Apps

Tines

Job description

Cinter Career Services, LLC in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer to design, build, and maintain security automation across SIEM/SOAR with production-quality monitoring and governance.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts and incident responders, developing integrations using Python, PowerShell, APIs, and cloud-native tech to automate operational tasks and reduce false positives.