Jobs in Bergen County, NJ

About the role

The Senior Automation Security Engineer designs and delivers scalable automation that strengthens the organization’s security posture and engineering velocity. This role combines strong Python engineering with deep working knowledge of GitHub/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 appropriate governance, observability, and human control.

What you'll bring

• Strong Python software engineering skills, including API integration, testing, packaging, error handling, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise 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.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM application risks and the engineering controls needed for safe agentic automation.
• Experience with security orchestration, SIEM/SOAR, detection engineering, incident response, or vulnerability-management automation.
• Experience with policy-as-code and cloud security tools such as OPA, Checkov, tfsec, Trivy, AWS Config, Security Hub, or GuardDuty.
• Hands-on delivery with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, RAG, evaluation frameworks, or enterprise AI platforms.
• AWS Security Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer, CISSP, Security+, or comparable certification.
• Experience operating workloads with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.

Benefits