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Salary: USD 130,000 - 140,000 / annual
Huntress, founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, is a remote-first cybersecurity company protecting more than 5M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. The company combines enterprise-grade technology with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center to make advanced cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes.
As a Senior IT Automation Engineer reporting to the Manager of IT Solutions Engineering, you will own the strategy and operating model for Huntress's Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence. You will shape how the organization uses automation and AI to work smarter, move faster, and scale securely, turning tools such as Claude, Glean, Zapier, and related platforms into practical systems that improve operational efficiency.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead cross-functional initiatives using automation to improve operational scale, employee experience, and business execution
- Own the enterprise automation and integration stack, including Zapier and connected business systems, ensuring performance, maintainability, and security alignment
- Establish and operate the Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence with standards, governance, documentation, intake, and prioritization practices
- Build reusable frameworks, templates, libraries, and design patterns enabling self-service delivery and consistent solutions
- Collaborate with Internal Innovation on AI adoption, feature enablement, and governance
- Design modular, resilient integration patterns with secure data handling, role-based access control, and least-privilege principles
- Analyze operational inefficiencies and deliver data-informed recommendations and roadmaps to leadership
- Re-engineer operational workflows with AI tools while preserving human judgment, security, and measurable outcomes
You will work side by side with the IT Solutions Engineering team and automation engineering peers, embracing continuous improvement by testing high-leverage approaches, learning quickly, and scaling patterns that create measurable operational impact and value.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in automation engineering, systems integration, or similar technical leadership role, with experience on or partnering closely with IT teams
- Demonstrated experience setting automation strategy, translating organizational goals into practical roadmaps, and guiding initiatives from concept through adoption
- Hands-on experience with enterprise workflow platforms, API-based integrations, and Microsoft tooling (Azure, Entra, Intune), plus Python or JavaScript/TypeScript scripting and version-controlled delivery practices
- Understanding of SaaS security, identity and access management, credential protection, privacy-aware data handling, and risk assessment of new integrations
- Ability to diagnose root causes, weigh automation against manual processes, and make clear decisions about where standardization creates the most value
- Strong communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs clearly with engineers, business partners, and executive stakeholders
- Experience re-engineering workflows with AI and designing reusable systems that let AI tools run meaningful operational tasks while keeping human judgment, security, and measurable outcomes in the loop
