Automation Engineer

Merlin International Inc • Mclean, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering team partners closely with the Security Operations Center to build and maintain the automation infrastructure that supports continuous compliance and security operations. This role sits within Engineering and focuses on building sustainable, repeatable pipelines for evidence collection, detection deployment, and incident response orchestration across a FedRAMP-authorized environment. We are looking for an Automation Engineer to design and implement the CI/CD and evidence automation infrastructure that underpins our security operations. You will build the pipelines that transform manual compliance processes into automated, repeatable workflows — ensuring continuous audit readiness rather than point-in-time compliance. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to apply software engineering practices to security operations at scale.

Requirements

• 3+ years building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Experience with SOAR platforms (Cortex XSOAR, Singularity Hyper automation, Phantom, or similar)
• Proficiency in Python for security automation scripting
• Familiarity with evidence collection requirements for compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP or SOC 2
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)

Nice To Haves

• Experience automating compliance evidence workflows in a FedRAMP-authorized environment
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel One) and detection rule lifecycle management
• Background in DevSecOps practices and security pipeline integration
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with AI/ML tooling applied to security automation use cases

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated evidence collection pipelines across compliance control families
• Build CI/CD infrastructure for detection rule deployment, testing, and validation
• Develop SOAR playbooks and workflow automation for incident response processes
• Automate vulnerability disclosure, file integrity monitoring, and notification workflows
• Create evidence validation tooling to support continuous audit readiness
• Identify and implement opportunities for AI-assisted automation within security operations

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• FSA
• EAP
• 401(k) with employer match
• unlimited PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed