Cyber Security Automation Engineer

Reference: 3219_1789482255

Role- Senior Security Automation Engineer
Type- Contract
Duration- 12+ months
Location- Mt. Laurel, NJ

Overview

Seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to build AI-driven security automation solutions within a Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC). This is a hands-on engineering role focused on developing intelligent agents and automated workflows that improve threat detection, investigations, and incident response.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production-grade security automation and AI-powered workflows.
  • Build AI agents capable of accessing security data, using tools, maintaining context, and executing multi-step tasks.
  • Automate processes across:
    • Threat Intelligence
    • Threat Hunting
    • Detection Engineering
    • Security Investigations
    • Incident Response
    • Security Data Analysis
  • Apply advanced AI techniques including:
    • Tool Calling
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
    • Structured Generation
    • Planning & Reflection
    • Verification
    • Model Routing
    • Multi-Agent Coordination
  • Design memory, context management, task recovery, escalation, and human approval mechanisms.
  • Reduce false positives and operational noise while improving response speed and consistency.
  • Develop security controls and guardrails for AI systems.
  • Create testing and evaluation frameworks to measure AI accuracy, reliability, security, and performance.
  • Collaborate with security and engineering teams to translate operational challenges into scalable automation solutions.
  • Take solutions from prototype to production and continuously optimize them.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, automation, AI/ML, or related technical roles.
  • Strong hands-on software development experience.
  • Experience building production-grade automation or AI-powered applications.
  • Experience with LLMs, Generative AI, or Agentic AI technologies.
  • Strong programming skills, particularly in Python or other modern languages.
  • Experience integrating APIs, tools, data sources, and external systems.
  • Understanding of AI agent concepts including tool use, retrieval, planning, memory, context management, and verification.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and scalable system design skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building agentic AI systems or autonomous security workflows.
  • Experience with SOAR, SIEM, security automation, threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, or incident response.
  • Knowledge of RAG, vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval.
  • Experience with multi-agent architectures, AI orchestration frameworks, and AI evaluation/testing frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
  • Experience implementing human-in-the-loop controls and approval workflows.
  • Proven ability to take AI solutions from proof of concept (POC) to production deployment.
  • Understanding of enterprise AI security controls and best practices.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

$65.00 - $72.00
Per hour
USD65 - USD72 per hour
Added 15/09/2026
Reference: 3219_1789482255

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