Senior Security Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients Salary range: Rs 1200000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 12 - 45 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years Location: Remote (India) JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer with strong expertise in security automation, cybersecurity engineering, and AI-driven workflows. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and maintain scalable security automation solutions that streamline Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows, improve incident response, and enhance operational efficiency. In this role, you will build reusable security automation components, integrations, connectors, and playbooks that work across security platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence solutions. You will also explore the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) into security automation to enable intelligent decision-making and more effective security operations. The role requires strong programming skills, a solid understanding of the cybersecurity ecosystem, and the ability to transform customer use cases and proof-of-concepts into reliable, production-grade solutions. Requirements Key Responsibilities 1. Security Automation Development - Design, develop, and maintain reusable security automation components, connectors, integrations, and playbooks. - Build scalable automation solutions to streamline SOC workflows, incident response, threat investigation, and other security operations. - Translate customer requirements, real-world use cases, and proof-of-concepts into production-ready security automation content. - Develop modular, reliable, and maintainable automation frameworks that can be deployed across diverse customer environments. - Optimise automation workflows for performance, scalability, reliability, and ease of deployment. 2. Security Platform Integration - Build integrations with SIEM, SOAR, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), vulnerability management, and threat intelligence platforms. - Develop connectors that enable seamless communication and data exchange between security tools. - Automate repetitive security tasks, alert enrichment, incident triage, investigation, and response workflows. - Ensure integrations are robust, efficient, and compatible with different security environments. - Troubleshoot integration issues and continuously improve the reliability of automation components. 3. AI and LLM-Powered Security Automation - Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into security automation workflows to support intelligent analysis and decision-making. - Explore agentic workflows, AI-powered investigation, and automated response capabilities for security operations. - Develop automation frameworks that combine traditional rule-based workflows with AI-driven reasoning where appropriate. - Evaluate AI-enabled approaches for improving alert analysis, threat investigation, and operational efficiency. - Apply suitable validation and safeguards to ensure AI-powered workflows are reliable and secure. 4. Production Engineering and Content Management - Maintain and continuously enhance the security automation content library used by customers globally. - Apply software engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, documentation, version control, and performance optimisation. - Ensure automation components are reusable, scalable, maintainable, and production-ready. - Identify opportunities to improve deployment speed, operational consistency, and the overall usability of security solutions. - Diagnose technical issues and implement long-term solutions to prevent recurring problems. 5. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Professional Services, and Product teams to understand customer requirements and improve solution delivery. - Support technical proof-of-concepts and help convert customer-specific requirements into reusable automation capabilities. - Work with stakeholders to tr