Senior Security Automation Engineer

Atlas is a global strategic consulting firm focused on the Life Sciences industry, seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design and implement production-grade automation for cybersecurity environments. The role involves building API-driven integrations and workflows to enhance security operations and reduce manual tasks.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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