Cybersecurity Automation Architect

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Cybersecurity Automation Architect based in the United States. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on designing and delivering enterprise-scale cybersecurity automation and orchestration solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to identify operational pain points, technical requirements, and opportunities to automate or streamline security processes.
• Design enterprise cybersecurity automation solutions encompassing workflows, integrations, APIs, services, data flows, and AI-enabled capabilities within established architecture and governance standards.
• Develop and promote reusable automation patterns, frameworks, connectors, and development standards in partnership with cybersecurity and enterprise architecture teams.
• Design, build, enhance, and maintain automated workflows that reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enable security teams to focus on higher-value activities such as threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between custom development, low-code/no-code orchestration, platform-native automation, and AI or agentic solutions.
• Design and implement AI-enabled and agentic automation with appropriate permissions, validation, observability, security boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls, and responsible AI practices.
• Provide technical leadership across the full solution lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture and design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Perform hands-on development and debugging of complex workflows, scripts, integrations, APIs, services, and supporting infrastructure.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure solutions meet cybersecurity, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational requirements.
• Mentor and support developers and engineers through technical guidance, troubleshooting, training, design reviews, and development best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with additional professional experience considered in lieu of a degree.
• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software development, automation engineering, security engineering, solution design, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale automation, orchestration, integration, or cybersecurity solutions.
• Strong programming and scripting capabilities, with Python experience preferred, as well as experience working with REST APIs, webhooks, authentication mechanisms, and application integration patterns.
• Experience with low-code or visual workflow platforms such as Tines, Operations Orchestration, Appian, Salesforce Visual Flow, ServiceNow AppEngine, Zoho, Node-RED, or similar technologies.
• Experience applying AI within development workflows and designing user-facing or backend AI agents for reliable solutions to non-deterministic problems.
• Understanding of AI and agentic-system design considerations, including permissions, data access, validation, observability, security boundaries, and human oversight.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across code, APIs, integrations, workflows, and complex technical environments.
• Able to translate high-level business or cybersecurity objectives into technical requirements, solution designs, implementation plans, and reusable architectures.
• Experience creating and maintaining technical, workflow, integration, and operational documentation, using Jira or similar work-management tools and version-controlled code repositories.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to independently break down complex objectives, identify dependencies, evaluate alternatives, and execute effective technical plans.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and collaborative communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with cybersecurity automation across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, identity and access management, vulnerability management, cloud security, threat intelligence, incident response, or security data platforms is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Tines, event-driven and asynchronous automation, secure software development, CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, and technologies such as Go, C#, .NET, JavaScript, PowerShell, AWS, Azure, SQL, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, and Docker is a plus.
• Experience developing reusable connectors, services, libraries, or integration frameworks, as well as knowledge of identity, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and service-to-service security, is preferred.
• Previous experience in a cybersecurity environment, particularly a SOC or SOC-adjacent team, technical leadership, developer mentoring, engineering standards, or UI/UX design is advantageous.

Benefits

• Base salary: $103,500–$181,100 annually.
• Medical coverage: Comprehensive medical insurance.
• Dental and vision: Dental and vision benefits for eligible employees.
• Retail retirement: 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Insurance: Life insurance and other employee protection benefits.
• Paid time off: PTO and paid holidays.
• Flexible schedules: Flexible work arrangements designed to support different lifestyles and work needs.
• Remote work: Full-time remote position open to candidates across the United States.
• Career growth: Opportunities to take on technically challenging projects, develop expertise, and contribute to innovative cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative environment: A culture focused on teamwork, innovation, professional development, and employee wellbeing.
• Security clearance: No security clearance is required for this position.