Senior Automation Controls Engineer
Core
Senior engineer specializing in reviewing, stress-testing, and designing safety controls (blast-radius, kill-switches, rollback logic) for production automation in a regulated financial environment.
Role type
Senior IC automation controls engineer (safety & reliability)
Builds
Production automation systems with embedded safety gates and failure handling
Domain
Financial services / Site Reliability Engineering
Required skills
Python, chaos engineering, fault injection, approval-gated execution systems, incident investigation, blast-radius containment design
Preferred skills
Designing resilience exercises, managing production automation risk, partnering with Risk/Audit functions
Technologies
AWS Fault Injection Service, Chaos Mesh, Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit
Responsibilities
Review automation code/design for safety gaps, run chaos engineering exercises, design approval-gate frameworks, investigate automation incidents, participate in on-call rotation with kill-switch authority
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
