Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.    Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. The Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation   is responsible for   designing, reviewing, and   operating   production-grade automation and AI capabilities that improve the effectiveness, scalability, and reliability of Security Operations. As part of the Security Operations Platform Engineering (SOPE) team, this role develops the platforms, integrations, workflows, and agentic systems that enable Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Threat Hunting teams to   operate   more efficiently. The ideal candidate combines strong software and automation engineering fundamentals with practical AI   experience   and the judgment   required   to safely deploy systems that influence security operations at scale. This role serves as a senior technical contributor responsible for   establishing   trusted, maintainable, and secure automation capabilities that other security functions depend upon.

Design and develop   production-grade automation and AI capabilities that reduce operational toil, improve security outcomes, and scale security operations workflows across the organization.   Review and approve   CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows, integrations, and AI-enabled systems that interact with production security platforms, incident management processes, and operational data.   Build and   maintain   API-driven integrations across security technologies, cloud services, AI platforms, and operational tooling while ensuring reliability, security, and observability.    Lead implementation of   agentic and AI-assisted workflows that support investigation, enrichment, correlation, triage, and response activities while   maintaining   appropriate guardrails , auditability, and human oversight.    Establish and promote   engineering standards for automation development, testing, code review, change management, operational safety, and platform reliability.   Partner with   Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and platform engineering teams to   identify   high-value use cases and deliver scalable automation and AI solutions.   Evaluate and recommend   AI, automation, and orchestration technologies by balancing innovation, risk, maintainability, operational impact, and long-term ownership.    Required Skills / Qualifications   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.   8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, security engineering, automation engineering, or related technical disciplines.   Advanced   proficiency   in   Python and GitLab CI/CD , including the ability to review, troubleshoot, and approve production automation pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows.   Demonstrated experience building and supporting   API-driven integrations   utilizing   REST APIs, OAuth/token-based authentication, pagination, rate limiting, error handling, and service-to-service communications.   Experience designing, developing, or   operating   AI-assisted, agentic, or LLM-powered solutions with a demonstrated ability to   validate   outputs,   identify   failure modes, and implement   appropriate safeguards .   Strong written communication skills with experience producing design documents, architecture