Senior Security Automation Engineer — Security Operations Center

Fidelity Investments • Durham, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Security Automation Engineer in Fidelity’s Security Operations Center, we are building and advancing automation capabilities that strengthen global security operations and help protect Fidelity, its affiliates, partners, and customers. This role is focused on designing and developing security automation platforms, improving detection and response workflows, and creating scalable solutions that enable security analysts to investigate and respond to threats more effectively. Working at the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity, this engineer is developing Python-based services and integrations, enhancing security monitoring and response capabilities, and identifying opportunities to apply artificial intelligence to security operations. The role is also leading technical improvements, supporting threat hunting and incident response, and shaping the strategy and roadmap for security automation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in information security incident response, detection engineering, security automation, or a closely related field.
• Strong Python development experience building automation, tooling, integrations, or backend services.
• Experience with enterprise security technologies for security information and event management, security orchestration and automated response, and endpoint detection and response.
• Hands-on experience with containers and cloud environments, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.
• Understanding of network protocols, host-based forensic analysis, common attack techniques, and security incident investigation.
• Ability to translate security challenges into scalable technical solutions and communicate technical concepts clearly to security analysts, engineers, and leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with production Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, front-end development, systems architecture, or applying artificial intelligence and large language models to security workflows is preferred.
• Security certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, OSCP, CISSP, or comparable credentials are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing security automation platforms
• Improving detection and response workflows
• Creating scalable solutions that enable security analysts to investigate and respond to threats more effectively
• Developing Python-based services and integrations
• Enhancing security monitoring and response capabilities
• Identifying opportunities to apply artificial intelligence to security operations
• Leading technical improvements
• Supporting threat hunting and incident response
• Shaping the strategy and roadmap for security automation

What This Job Offers

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