Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer
Cinter Career · Plano, Texas, United States
Staffing and Recruiting · 2-10 employees
About the role
Design, build, and maintain security automation across SIEM/SOAR platforms to streamline incident response and alert management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement AI-assisted security workflows and improve overall SOC operational efficiency.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 6-9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience with a strong background in automation and SOC development. Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, and Microsoft security technologies is essential for this role.
Full description
▶︎ Job Details ・Job Title: Senior Automation & Cybersecurity Engineer ・Client: Japanese IT Company ・Working Location: Plano TX ・Working Style: W-2 （No C2C） ・Employment Type: Full-time ・Salary: DOE ・Visa Support: NO ・Working Hours: Business Hours (CT) ・Language: English
▶︎ Key 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.
▶︎ The Right Candidate Will Possess• 6–9 years of cybersecurity engineering experience, including hands-on experience with security automation and SOC engineering.
- Strong software engineering mindset with the ability to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable automation solutions.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional security and infrastructure teams.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to improve operational efficiency through automation.
- Strong communication, documentation, and mentoring abilities.
- Interest in leveraging AI technologies to modernize security operations while maintaining appropriate governance and security controls.
▶︎ Required Qualifications & Skills• 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 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.
Preferred Qualifications• Experience with Tines for SOC automation and workflow orchestration.
- Experience building Agentic SOC solutions using AI/LLM technologies.
- Knowledge of Detection-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, MITRE ATT&CK, ASIM, Sigma Rules, or observability platforms.
- Experience with AI/ML-assisted security tools, prompt engineering, and intelligent agents.
- Relevant certifications such as: • Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
- Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate
- GIAC Security Automation Certification
No C2C: We do not accept Corp-to-Corp (C2C) arrangements for this position.
