Security Engineer
Reference: 9892_1788989063
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate production-grade security automation and AI-driven workflows.
- Build intelligent agents capable of securely accessing security data, invoking approved tools, maintaining context, and executing multi-step workflows.
- Develop automation that can assist with:
- Threat intelligence
- Threat hunting
- Detection engineering
- Security investigations
- Incident response
- Security data analysis
- Apply modern AI and automation techniques, including:
- Tool calling
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Structured generation
- Planning
- Reflection
- Verification
- Model routing
- Multi-agent coordination
- Design mechanisms for memory, context management, task recovery, escalation, and human approval.
- Build automation designed to reduce operational noise and false positives while improving the speed and consistency of security response.
- Develop appropriate security controls and guardrails around AI agents and automated workflows.
- Create evaluation and testing strategies to measure the accuracy, reliability, security, and performance of automation.
- Evaluate emerging AI models, agent frameworks, automation platforms, and orchestration technologies.
- Prototype new capabilities and transition successful solutions into reliable production environments.
- Work closely with threat intelligence analysts, threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, and security-data engineers to understand operational challenges.
- Translate security requirements and operational processes into scalable technical solutions.
- Develop clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-documented code.
- Troubleshoot, monitor, and continuously improve automation running in production.
- Participate in architecture, design, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive or time-sensitive security processes and improve overall SOC efficiency.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, automation engineering, AI/ML engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong hands-on software development experience.
- Experience building automation solutions or AI-powered applications for production environments.
- Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI, or agentic AI technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or another modern programming language.
- Experience integrating applications with APIs, tools, data sources, and external systems.
- Understanding of AI agent concepts such as tool use, planning, context management, retrieval, memory, and verification.
- Experience designing and implementing reliable, scalable technical solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work with both software engineers and security professionals to translate operational challenges into technical solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building agentic AI systems or autonomous security workflows.
- Experience with security automation, SOAR, SIEM, or security orchestration platforms.
- Experience with cybersecurity operations, threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, or incident response.
- Experience with RAG, vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, or knowledge retrieval.
- Experience with multi-agent architectures and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Experience developing AI evaluation frameworks, testing harnesses, or benchmarking processes.
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing human-in-the-loop controls and approval workflows.
- Experience taking AI/automation solutions from proof of concept through production deployment.
- Familiarity with security controls and best practices for deploying AI systems in enterprise environments.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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