Principal AI Security Automation Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

Are you an experienced AWS engineer who is passionate about security and ready for your next challenge at DTCC? Join IT Cyber Security & Resiliency as a Principal AI Security Automation Engineer and use your cloud, development, and automation skills to build intelligent solutions that improve how we discover, prioritize, and remediate security risks. This is an opportunity to grow your cybersecurity expertise, work with AI-powered technologies, collaborate across engineering and security teams, and make a meaningful difference in protecting DTCC.
 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement automation workflows supporting AI-powered vulnerability discovery and remediation.
• Develop integrations between AI scanning platforms, security tools and SDLC platforms.
• Build and maintain findings ingestion, normalization and enrichment pipelines.
• Integrate AI scanning outputs into ASPM, vulnerability management and developer workflows.
• Develop automated triage, prioritization and remediation orchestration capabilities.
• Create dashboards, metrics and reporting capabilities supporting security decision-making.
• Build APIs and automation services connecting security tooling across the enterprise.
• Partner with AppSec, Vulnerability Operations and Development teams to operationalize findings.
• Improve scanning efficiency through workflow optimization and intelligent automation.
• Support secure deployment and operation of AI-based security capabilities.
• Contribute to governance, auditability and operational controls for AI-driven security processes.
• Evaluate emerging AI security technologies and identify opportunities for automation.

 **NOTE:  The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 6+ years of software engineering, DevSecOps, Application Security, or security automation experience
• Strong hands-on development experience in Python, with the ability to develop production-grade security tooling, automation frameworks, and integrations
• Experience designing and operating application security tooling including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, ASPM, or vulnerability management platforms
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices, OWASP Top 10, secure coding, threat modelling, and vulnerability remediation
• Experience developing API integrations using REST APIs, SDKs, and event-driven architectures
• Experience working with AI/LLM platforms such as Claude, OpenAI, Bedrock, or similar
• Experience building automated workflows for vulnerability discovery, triage, prioritization, and remediation
• Experience with containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Familiarity with AWS security services, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and cloud-native security controls
• Experience with CI/CD and SDLC tooling including Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Maven, and related platforms
• Understanding of AI security risks including prompt injection, model abuse, AI supply chain security, and agent security
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP, TAISE, OSCP, CSSLP, or similar certifications
• Experience with Apiiro, Veracode, SonarQube, Semgrep, Burp Suite, or comparable security platforms
• Experience implementing policy-as-code or security guardrails within engineering platforms
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale vulnerability management programmers
   

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.