Senior Security Automation Engineer

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale production-grade automation across enterprise cybersecurity environments. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on reducing manual security operations, suppressing alert and ticket noise, and enabling faster, safer cyber defense outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines strong security engineering knowledge with software development and automation expertise. This individual will build API-driven integrations and automated workflows across security platforms while ensuring that all automation is safe, observable, auditable, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade security automation workflows across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security environments.

• Develop API-driven integrations between security tools, enterprise platforms, and workflow systems.

• Automate security processes including alert enrichment, suppression, containment, remediation, and response.

• Build automation that reduces repetitive analyst work and operational noise.

• Integrate security automation with ITSM, ticketing, orchestration, and enterprise workflow platforms where approvals or human intervention are required.

• Implement safety controls including kill switches, dry-run/test modes, time-limited actions, rollback capabilities, and staged deployments across development, testing, and production environments.

• Ensure automation is fully observable and auditable through comprehensive logging, correlation identifiers, and action tracking.

• Develop reusable automation frameworks, connectors, and patterns that can scale across multiple security teams and domains.

• Partner with security engineers, platform engineers, data scientists, and other technical stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions.

• Mentor junior engineers and promote security automation engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 6+ years of experience in security engineering, security automation, or a closely related technical field.

• Strong hands-on experience building production-grade automation systems.

• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or a similar programming/scripting language.

• Experience building integrations using APIs and services.

• Strong understanding of security operations workflows, including alert enrichment, suppression, containment, remediation, and response.

• Experience working with distributed systems and enterprise technology environments.

• Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, observable, and auditable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, or data security platforms.

• Experience with SOAR, ITSM, ticketing, workflow, or orchestration platforms.

• Experience designing rollback, TTL/time-limited actions, dry-run capabilities, and staged enforcement models.

• Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes AI or model-generated decision outputs.

• Experience developing dashboards, reporting, or metrics to measure automation outcomes.

• Experience creating reusable automation frameworks or connectors used across multiple teams.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate will be a hands-on engineer who sits at the intersection of cybersecurity and software/automation engineering. This is not a traditional GRC, security analyst, or purely AI/ML-focused position. We are looking for someone who has personally built automation that integrates security tools and safely executes or orchestrates actions through APIs.

Success in this role will include delivering production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload, suppresses operational noise, and creates reusable automation capabilities that can be adopted across multiple security domains.

Join Our Team at Atlas
Atlas is a global strategic consulting firm, focused on the Life Sciences industry. Our services include Management Consulting, Managed Services and Agile Services. Global pharmaceutical companies and emerging players in life sciences depend on Atlas consultants to ensure they have the capabilities that will give them the ability to succeed. We are seeking Atlas IMPACT Makers who are ready to lead and innovate in dynamic environments. IMPACT Makers embody the principles of Atlas, driving transformative change and delivering outstanding results.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We value diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are committed to creating an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed