Senior IT Automation Engineer

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.