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This position requires technical problem-solving, clear communication, and close collaboration with security analysts, platform engineers, and business stakeholders.\nPosition Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain automation workflows across SIEM, SOAR, endpoint security, identity, vulnerability management, cloud, and ticketing platforms.\nDevelop integrations using REST APIs, web-hooks, SDKs, and scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell.\nAutomate alert enrichment, investigation support, case creation, evidence collection, notifications, and incident response actions.\nEngineer workflows that correlate information across platforms to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and support faster security decisions.\nPartner with security analysts and incident responders to identify automation opportunities and translate operational playbooks into technical workflows.\nAutomate vulnerability management activities, including asset enrichment, remediation ticket creation, ownership assignment, escalation, and closure validation.\nBuild appropriate safeguards into automated actions, including approval requirements, access restrictions, validation checks, and rollback procedures.\nImplement secure authentication, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit logging for integrations and service accounts.\nMaintain automation code through version control, peer review, testing, documentation, and established change management processes.\nMonitor automation health, troubleshoot failures, and account for API limits, platform changes, retries, and exception handling.\nDocument integration architectures, data flows, dependencies, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guidance.\nMeasure automation effectiveness through time saved, execution reliability, reduced manual handling, and improved response times.\nSupport security control implementation and audit readiness by automating evidence collection and reporting.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance security automation, including alert enrichment, investigation summaries, incident prioritization, and response recommendations.\nIntegrate AI capabilities into security workflows with appropriate human oversight, data protection, output validation, and audit logging.\nEvaluate AI-assisted workflows for accuracy, reliability, and measurable improvements in analyst efficiency and response time.\nBasic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)\nThree or more years of experience in security engineering, security automation, software development, or a related technical discipline.\nDemonstrated experience developing and maintaining automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, or comparable languages.\nPractical experience integrating enterprise platforms through APIs, including authentication, JSON data handling, pagination, and error handling.\nWorking knowledge of security operations, incident response processes, and common endpoint, identity, network, and cloud threats.\nExperience with SIEM or SOAR platforms and workflow orchestration tools.\nFamiliarity with Git, code review, testing, and secure development practices.\nAbility to troubleshoot complex workflows and dependencies across multiple systems.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical solutions to nontechnical stakeholders.\nAbility to prioritize work, manage competing requirements, and independently deliver maintainable solutions.\nBachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nOther Qualifications & Desired Competencies\nExperience with platforms such as Microsoft security technologies, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Microsoft Intune, Palo Alto Networks, or Jira.\nExperience integrating AI capabilities, large language models (LLMs), or AI-enabled security tools into automation workflows, with an understanding of their limitations and secure use.\nExperience supporting Azure Government, Microsoft GCC High, or other regulated enterprise environments.\nFamiliarity with KQL, cloud automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.\nExperience implementing automated response actions with human approval and operational safeguards.\nFamiliarity with NIST incident response guidance, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, and NIST SP 800-171.\nSuccess in This Role\nSuccess is demonstrated through reliable automations that reduce analyst workload, accelerate investigations and remediation, improve consistency across security processes, and provide measurable operational value while maintaining appropriate oversight and control.\nPhysical Demands\nAbility to work in an office environment (Constant)\nRequired to sit and stand for long periods; 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In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’s business requirements. A “U.S. person” according to the ITAR definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.\nBenefits: AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit: http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.\nWe also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.\nPrincipals only need apply. NO agencies please.\nAbout AV:\nAV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.\nWe don’t just build defense technology-we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. From AI-powered drones and loitering munitions to integrated autonomy and space resilience, our technologies shape the future of warfare and protect those who serve.\nFounded by legendary innovator Dr. Paul MacCready, AV has spent over 50 years pushing the boundaries of what unmanned systems can do. 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