Senior IT Automation Architect - Remote

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off including vac,S

Parental leave - 12 weeks

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with 5% contribution

Stock options for full-time employees

Home office reimbursement $500

Education and professional development

Digital reimbursement $75/month

Job summary

Huntress is a remote-first cybersecurity company seeking a Senior IT Automation Engineer to shape automation strategy and drive enterprise-scale integration. You will own the Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence, turning tools like Claude, Glean, Zapier into practical systems that improve how teams work.

With 7+ years in automation and systems integration, you will lead initiatives across IT Solutions Engineering, focusing on secure, scalable, and auditable automation with a strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in automation engineering or a similar technical leadership role.
• Experience with enterprise workflow platforms, API-based integrations, and Microsoft tooling (Azure, Entra, Intune).
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript scripting and version-controlled delivery.
• Understanding of SaaS security, IAM, privacy-aware data handling, and risk assessment of new integrations.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly with engineers, business partners and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives that use automation to improve operational scale, employee experience, and business execution.
• Own the enterprise automation and integration stack, including Zapier and connected business systems, while ensuring performance, maintainability, and security alignment.
• Establish and operate the Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence, including standards, governance, documentation, intake, and prioritization practices.
• Build reusable frameworks, templates, libraries, and design patterns that help enable self service and deliver reliable solutions faster with more consistency.
• Represent IT with Internal Innovation to collaborate on AI adoption, feature enablement, and governance.
• Design modular, resilient integration patterns and automation pipelines with secure data handling, role-based access control, and least-privilege principles built in.
• Analyze operational inefficiencies, identify high-value opportunities, and deliver data-informed recommendations and roadmaps to leadership.
• Re-engineer meaningful parts of the operational layer with AI, using tools such as Claude and Glean to create reusable workflows that preserve human judgment, security, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Automation engineering

Systems integration

Technical leadership

Strategic planning

Tools

Azure

Entra

Intune

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Huntress is a remote-first cybersecurity company seeking a Senior IT Automation Engineer to shape automation strategy and drive enterprise-scale integration. You will own the Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence, turning tools like Claude, Glean, Zapier into practical systems that improve how teams work.

With 7+ years in automation and systems integration, you will lead initiatives across IT Solutions Engineering, focusing on secure, scalable, and auditable automation with a strong