About this role
Northwave is a leading European cybersecurity specialist, protecting organisations against increasingly complex digital threats. With deep expertise in offensive and defensive security, behaviour, and monitoring, we support our customers through managed security services and high-impact consultancy. Our Security Operations Center plays a central role in this mission, operating as a high-trust, high-precision environment where technology and expertise come together. To further strengthen this foundation, we are expanding our engineering capability within the SOC platform. The role As a Automation Engineer, you are responsible for designing, building, and evolving the technical stack that powers our Security Operations Center. You work at the intersection of engineering, automation, and security operations, ensuring that our monitoring platform scales reliably and remains operationally sharp. You design deployment pipelines that enable seamless onboarding of new customers and use cases. You develop intelligent correlation and deduplication mechanisms so analysts and clients only see alerts and vulnerabilities that truly matter. You also create and maintain a centralized view of customer implementations, giving the SOC immediate insight into active configurations, use cases, and points of contact. Your work directly impacts how efficiently our SOC operates and how effectively we protect critical infrastructure across Europe. Technology & environment You will work in an environment where engineering quality and operational reliability are essential: Python for automation, orchestration, and building smart internal tooling APIs for integrating and connecting security and monitoring systems GNU/Linux environments with strong command-line usage Networking fundamentals for designing, operating, and troubleshooting monitoring setups Security-by-design as a default, not an afterthought