Senior Automation Security Engineer – Python & Cloud

Versant; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media in the United States seeks a Sr. Cyber Security Engineer - Automation to design and deliver scalable automation that strengthens security posture and engineering velocity.

This role combines strong Python engineering with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and AWS. The engineer leads secure automation patterns, enables disciplined internal use of AI tools, and builds production-quality agentic workflows with governance, observability, and human control.

Qualifications

• Strong Python software engineering skills, including API integration and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, OIDC, permissions, secure 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

Automation design

Leadership / mentoring

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Versant Media in the United States seeks a Sr. Cyber Security Engineer - Automation to design and deliver scalable automation that strengthens security posture and engineering velocity.

This role combines strong Python engineering with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and AWS. The engineer leads secure automation patterns, enables disciplined internal use of AI tools, and builds production-quality agentic workflows with governance, observability, and human control.