Security Automation Lead
Core
Lead the design and operation of a single, auditable security automation pipeline to replace manual console operations with version-controlled, engineering-owned automation.
Role type
Senior IC Security Automation Lead (Infrastructure & Security)
Builds
Security automation pipelines, drift reconciliation engines, CI/CD systems, and observability stacks for cloud-native workloads.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Security / DevSecOps
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Security automation pipeline design, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi), CI/CD pipeline engineering, Kubernetes cluster operations, Policy-as-code (OPA/Cedar), Observability stack design, People management, Sprint discipline.
Preferred skills
Enterprise security tooling integration (EDR, IDP, SIEM, VMDR).
Technologies
Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Open Policy Agent, Rego, Sentinel, Cedar, PowerShell, Python, Bash.
Responsibilities
Lead design and operation of auditable security automation pipelines; Build drift reconciliation and validation engines; Replace manual operations with version-controlled automation; Implement and scale IaC deployment patterns; Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated linting and validation; Design observability and monitoring pipelines; Instrument container and Kubernetes security workflows; Run team sprint cycles with backlog ownership; Integrate automation with existing security tooling; Define and report operational metrics for continuous improvement.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
