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Posted Mar 30, 2026

Sr Security Automation Engineer

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This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: New Jersey (USA) Senior Security Automation Engineer Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation that reduces manual effort, suppresses operational noise, and accelerates cyber defense outcomes. This role is focused on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will deliver safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems. Key Responsibilities Security Automation Engineering • Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across multiple security domains. • Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions. • Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, containment, and response workflows. • Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration, approvals, or human-in-the-loop controls are required. Safety, Observability & Reliability • Implement robust safety controls, including: • Kill switches • Dry-run and test modes • Time-limited actions • Staged deployments (development, testing, production) • Ensure observability and auditability by logging automation actions with appropriate correlation identifiers. • Design automation that is explainable, transparent, and safe to operate at scale. Platform Integration & Reuse • Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams and security domains. • Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions. • Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices for secure, scalable automation. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field. • 6+ years of experience in security engineering or security automation roles. • Proven experience building and operating production-grade automation systems. • Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or PowerShell. • Strong understanding of: • Security operations workflows • Alert enrichment and suppression techniques • Containment and response patterns • Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems. • Demonstrated ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable. Preferred Qualifications • Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security platforms. • Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM systems, ticketing tools, orchestration engines). • Experience designing rollback mechanisms, time-to-live (TTL), and staged enforcement models. • Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision or recommendation outputs. • Experience building dashboards, metrics, or reporting to measure automation outcomes. What Success Looks Like • Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload. • Effective suppression of alert and ticket noise through scalable automation patterns. • Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains. • Automation actions that are trusted due to strong safety controls, logging, and transparency. • Recognition as a senior engineer who enables secure, enterprise-safe automation at scale. This offer from "Atlas" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score.