• Job Description

  Req#: 26-00052
  
  
  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.
  
  

• About the company

  Atlas is a strategic consulting and program delivery company that is focused on optimizing the capabilities of leading Life Sciences companies.

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