Senior Test Automation Engineer

About Us Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com. Role Summary We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer In Test who would like to work within SophosLabs on the development and maintenance of our internal test systems to ensure the superior quality of the SophosLabs deliverables used by Sophos products to provide protection to all our customers. To succeed in this role, you will be passionate about developing high quality deliverables, continuous improvement, cooperation between global teams and keen to use your excellent skills to contribute the success of SophosLabs. What You Will Do
  • Use your technical knowledge to expand and improve capability of our automated systems
  • Learn and adopt in fast changing environment
  • Support, maintain and improve existing internal systems
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement 
  • Collaboration at every level
  • Problem solving
  • What You Will Bring
  • Designing & developing reliable, maintainable, clean, and quality code
  • Experience working with Python. Knowledge of other scripting languages would be an advantage (Unix Shell, Perl…).
  • Automated test framework development
  • Test planning and automation
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Public cloud infrastructure
  • Designing, troubleshooting, or working on CI/CD pipelines
  • Using development and configuration management tools (IDEs, issue tracking, source control, etc.)
  • Can learn fast. Really fast.
  • Working in Agile environments
  • Computer security
  • Fluency in English - written and spoken.

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    What's Great About Sophos?
    ·   Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
    ·   Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
    ·   Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
    ·   Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
    ·   Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
    ·   Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
    ·   Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge 
    ·   Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

    Our Commitment To You
    We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity.   We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team.  All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation.  We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know. 

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