Automation Security Engineer — Python, AWS & GitHub Actions

Versant Media, LLC; Englewood Cliffs, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media, LLC is seeking a Senior Automation Security Engineer to design and deliver scalable automation that strengthens security posture and engineering velocity. You will combine Python engineering with Terraform and AWS expertise, leading secure automation patterns and governance across AI tool usage.

You will own CI/CD patterns with GitHub Actions, enforce least privilege, and build production-ready agentic workflows with observability and reviews.

Qualifications

• Strong Python software engineering skills with API integration, testing, packaging, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, OIDC, permissions, secrets use, and CI/CD controls.
• Strong Terraform experience: modules, state, plans, code review, testing, and policy or guardrail implementation.
• Deep practical understanding of AWS security and cloud architecture, especially IAM, network boundaries, logging, encryption, and serverless/container services.
• Experience designing automation that is reliable, observable, least-privileged, and safe to roll out.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design discussions, review code, and guide work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reusable Python services, libraries, CLIs, and integrations that automate security controls and operational workflows.
• Establish engineering standards for reliability, testing, observability, secrets handling, access control, and lifecycle ownership of automations.
• Automate high-value workflows such as identity and access reviews, cloud configuration remediation, evidence collection, security findings enrichment, exception management, and incident response orchestration.

Skills

Python

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS

Automation engineering

CI/CD

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

Job description

Versant Media, LLC is seeking a Senior Automation Security Engineer to design and deliver scalable automation that strengthens security posture and engineering velocity. You will combine Python engineering with Terraform and AWS expertise, leading secure automation patterns and governance across AI tool usage.

You will own CI/CD patterns with GitHub Actions, enforce least privilege, and build production-ready agentic workflows with observability and reviews.