Job SummaryAs a Security Automation & AI Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automated workflows and AI-driven solutions that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Novanta's integral security operations. Working closely with the Security Operations team, you will develop SOAR playbooks, detection-as-code pipelines, and intelligent automation that accelerate threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management across the enterprise. You will also serve as a key liaison between Security and R&D; Engineering, gaining deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows to embed security automation into the development lifecycle. Your goal is to reduce manual operational burden, improve detection coverage, and enable the security team to scale its capabilities in line with Novanta's growth, while maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our data and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.Primary ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop,



and maintain security automation workflows and SOAR playbooks to streamline alert triage, enrichment, containment, and remediation processes.Build and maintain detection-as-code pipelines, enabling programmatic creation, testing, version control, and deployment of detection rules across SIEM and EDR platforms.Develop AI-assisted investigation tools and scripts that auto-correlate signals across security platforms (SIEM, EDR, DLP, IAM) to accelerate incident response.Automate vulnerability management workflows, including scan orchestration, prioritisation scoring, remediation tracking, and reporting to support the vulnerability management function.Serve as the security team's subject matter expert on R&D; CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Azure DevOps, build/release workflows), understanding how software is developed, tested, and deployed across Novanta's business units.Identify and implement opportunities to embed automated security checks

📌 Security Automation (Barcelona)
🏢 Novanta
📍 Barcelona