--- title: 'Senior IT Automation Engineer at Huntress' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-it-automation-engineer-huntress-united-states-of-jw98en6f3bzg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-20' --- # Senior IT Automation Engineer at Huntress - **Company:** Huntress - **Location:** United States of, United States - **Posted:** 2026-10-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/8016075003 ## Job description What We Do: Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection. Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other. Reports to: Manager, IT Solutions Engineering Location: Remote US Compensation Range: $130,000 to $140,000 base plus bonus and equity What You’ll Do: As a Senior IT Automation Engineer on the IT Solutions Engineering team, you will shape how Huntress uses automation and AI to work smarter, move faster, and scale securely. You will own the strategy and operating model for our Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence, turning tools such as Claude, Glean, Zapier, and related platforms into practical systems that improve how teams get work done. You embrace continuous improvement by testing what has the most leverage, learning quickly, and improving the patterns that scale. You find friction before it becomes someone else’s problem and owning the path from idea to adoption. You measure success by the operational impact, security, and value your systems create across Huntress.You’ll work side by side with the rest of the IT Solution Engineering team and automation engineering peers to accomplish your work. Responsibilities: - Lead cross-functional initiatives that use automation to improve operational scale, employee experience, and business execution. - Own the enterprise automation and integration stack, including Zapier and connected business systems, while ensuring performance, maintainability, and security alignment. - Establish and operate the Automation and Agentic AI Center of Excellence, including standards, governance, documentation, intake, and prioritization practices. - Build reusable frameworks, templates, libraries, and design patterns that help enable self service and deliver reliable solutions faster with more consistency. - Represent IT with Internal Innovation to collaborate on AI adoption, feature enablement, and governance. - Design modular, resilient integration patterns and automation pipelines with secure data handling, role-based access control, and least-privilege principles built in. - Analyze operational inefficiencies, identify high-value opportunities, and deliver data-informed recommendations and roadmaps to leadership. - Re-engineer meaningful parts of the operational layer with AI, using tools such as Claude and Glean to create reusable workflows that preserve human judgment, security, and measurable outcomes. What You Bring To The Team: - You have 7+ years of experience in automation engineering, systems integration, or a similar technical leadership role, with experience on or partnering closely with IT teams. - You have set automation strategy, translated organizational goals into practical roadmaps, and guided initiatives from concept through adoption. - You have hands-on experience with enterprise workflow platforms, API-based integrations, and Microsoft tooling such as Azure, Entra, and Intune, along with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript scripting and version-controlled delivery practices. - You understand SaaS security, identity and access management, credential protection, privacy-aware data handling, and the risk assessment of new integrations. - You can diagnose root causes, weigh automation against manual processes, and make clear decisions about where standardization creates the most value. - You communicate technical trade-offs clearly with engineers, business partners, and executive stakeholders, and you can guide teams toward maintainable solutions. - You have re-engineered workflows with AI and can design reusable systems that let tools such as Claude and Glean run meaningful parts of the operational layer while keeping human judgment, security, and measurable outcomes in the loop. What We Offer: - 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015 - Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays - 12 weeks of paid parental leave - Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans - 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution - Life and Disability insurance plans - Stock options for all full-time employees - One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office - Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance - $75 USD/month digital reimbursement - Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes. Accommodations: If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. Huntress uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, including resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process, but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our [Candidate Privacy Notice](https://trust.huntress.com/?itemUid=47f0a941-b86f-4864-a0d0-a224a34cfd57&source=click) for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights. #BI-Remote ## About Huntress ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Huntress provides a fully managed cybersecurity platform that protects small and medium-sized businesses from hackers via threat detection, endpoint security, and identity protection. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D) - **Headquarters**: Fulton, Maryland, USA (fully remote company) - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Kyle Hanslovan, John Ferrell, and Chris Bisnett (former NSA cyber operators) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Managed Detection and Response, Endpoint Security, Identity Threat Detection) - **Target customers**: B2B — primarily small and medium businesses (SMBs) and the managed service providers (MSPs) that support them. Also serves mid-market enterprises. - **Mission**: To break down the barriers to enterprise-level security and empower the businesses that the big names overlook. ## Products & Services - **Huntress Managed EDR**: Endpoint detection and response that monitors, hunts, and responds to threats across endpoints. - **Huntress Managed ITDR** (Identity Threat Detection and Response): Monitors and protects Microsoft 365 identities and environments from account takeover and identity-based attacks. - **Huntress Managed SIEM**: A fully managed security information and event management service that ingests and correlates log data for threat detection. - **Huntress Security Awareness Training**: Phishing simulations and security training to reduce human risk. - **Huntress Security Platform**: The unified platform that integrates all of the above, providing a single pane of glass for partners. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest round was $150M Series D in 2024). - **Key Metric**: $100M+ ARR (achieved in 2024). - **Total Funding**: Over $228M (Series A: $18M in 2022, Series C: $60M in 2023, Series D: $150M in 2024). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named directly in available data, but notable partnerships include Microsoft (Verified SMB Solution), Forte Racing, and the CISA Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). - **Growth Signals**: - Protects 4M+ endpoints and 8M+ identities worldwide. - Named to Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list. - Won Inc. Best Places to Work award (2024). - Named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers list (2025). - Achieved CMMC compliance and authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority. - Included in Verizon 2025 DBIR Report. - 630 total employees and growing. ## Competitive Advantages - **One Team advantage**: Technology and SOC (Security Operations Center) are inseparable — the platform is built for and operated by the same team, ensuring detection and response are tightly coupled. - **Founding team pedigree**: Founded by former NSA cyber operators, giving deep domain expertise in adversary tactics. - **SMB focus**: Specifically targets the underserved SMB market with enterprise-grade security at an affordable SaaS price. - **Fully managed**: Unlike many tools that require in-house security teams, Huntress provides a complete managed service, making it accessible to underresourced IT teams. - **Adversary-informed defense**: Uses real-world threat intelligence and continuous hunting to stay ahead of attackers. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to protect more SMBs, expanding the managed SIEM offering, deepening identity protection, and maintaining leadership in the MSP channel. - **Growth direction**: International expansion (currently hiring in US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia), continued product innovation, and strengthening partnerships with Microsoft and CISA. - **Public commitment**: Signed the CISA Secure By Design pledge, indicating a focus on security-by-design and transparency. ## Why Work Here - **100% Remote**: Huntress has been fully remote from day one, with a global team across US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia. They provide tools, systems, and processes to succeed outside a corporate office. - **Culture**: Values-driven with a focus on being a “force for good.” Core values are Own It, Elevate It, and Send It — emphasizing accountability, mutual support, and bold action. - **Benefits**: - 5% 401k contribution (even if you don’t contribute). - Stock options for all full-time teammates. - 12 weeks paid parental leave. - Monthly digital reimbursement for internet/phone. - Starter home office reimbursement. - Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and pet insurance. - Education assistance (LifeLabs, BetterUp coaching, hands-on training). - Generous PTO, sick time, bereavement leave, and floating holidays. - **Growth opportunities**: Committed to teammate development with training, coaching, and education assistance programs. - **Awards**: Inc. Best Places to Work, Built In Best Remote Places to Work, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers. - **Team size**: 630 employees and growing. ## Sources 1. [huntress.com](https://www.huntress.com/) 2. [huntress.com/company/careers](https://www.huntress.com/company/careers) 3. [huntress.com/company/our-story](https://www.huntress.com/company/our-story) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress) 5. 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