Security Automation Engineer

Reports to: Manager - Security Engineering

Avalara is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to join our Security Automation & Platform Enhancement Team (SAPET). You will be at the intersection of cybersecurity, automation, and AI, focusing on designing and implementing scalable security solutions that enhance Avalara's security posture. You will have expertise in programming, cloud technologies, security automation, and modern software engineering practices, with experience with using Generative AI to improve security processes. What Makes This Role Unique at Avalara Cutting-Edge Security Automation: You will work on advanced cybersecurity automation projects, including fraud detection, AI-based security document analysis, and IT security process automation. AI-Powered Innovation: We integrate Generative AI to identify risks, analyze security documents, and automate compliance tasks. Impact Across Multiple Security Domains: Your work will support AML, fraud detection, IT security, and vendor risk management.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

As a Security Automation Engineer, your primary focus will be to develop automation solutions that improve efficiency across several security teams. Develop and maintain security automation solutions to streamline security operations and reduce manual efforts. Work on automation projects that augment security teams, enabling them to work more efficiently. Design and implement scalable security frameworks for Security Teams.

What You'll Need to be Successful

5+ years experience Programming & Scripting: Python, GoLang, Bash Infrastructure as Code & Orchestration: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker Security & CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD tools Database & Data Analysis: SQL, security data analytics tools Experience with RDBMS and SQL, including database design, normalization, query optimization Experience. Hands-on experience with security automation tools, SIEM, SOAR, or threat intelligence platforms.