Senior Security Engineer - GRC & Automation Leader

Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Air Lines, Inc. seeks a Sr. Security Engineer - Governance, Risk, and Compliance who blends strategic governance with hands-on automation.

You will shape Delta's information security standards, map controls to regulatory frameworks, and build automation that measures control effectiveness and KPI data in real time. You will partner with Cloud, PKI, Network, and IoT security teams to scale secure solutions enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• Strategic governance leadership in information security with hands-on automation experience.
• Experience aligning security programs with regulatory frameworks and business goals.
• Strong Python scripting and IaC infrastructure automation.
• Ability to communicate risk and security metrics to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provide Policy and Standards leadership with Delta's information security policy, standards, and procedures.
• Own mappings to regulatory frameworks (NIST, PCI DSS, ISO 27001) and ensure traceability in the GRC platform (RSA Archer).
• Design, build, and deploy automated security control tests and metric collectors using Python and IaC; publish results to dashboards.
• Develop KPIs and KRIs end-to-end, from metric selection to real-time visualization for leadership.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and tooling to scale metric automation across teams.
• Lead production changes through RFC processes and coordinate deployments with zero-incident execution.
• Advance security guidance and documentation across internal platforms with clear, plain language.
• Improve security posture through process automation and risk-based insights for leadership.
• Foster a security-driven culture and communicate the value of information security to stakeholders.
• Tackle complex security challenges at enterprise scale and provide options for risk reduction.

Skills

Governance leadership

Automation engineering

Security metrics

Stakeholder communication

Tools

RSA Archer

Python

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Delta Air Lines, Inc. seeks a Sr. Security Engineer - Governance, Risk, and Compliance who blends strategic governance with hands-on automation.

You will shape Delta's information security standards, map controls to regulatory frameworks, and build automation that measures control effectiveness and KPI data in real time. You will partner with Cloud, PKI, Network, and IoT security teams to scale secure solutions enterprise-wide.