Versant

Cyber Security Engineer - Automation

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4 days ago
Remote, United States or Orlando, FL, USAEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain Python scripts, CLIs, REST API integrations, and scheduled jobs for security and operational automation.
  • Automate evidence collection, configuration checks, alert enrichment, ticket creation, reporting, and basic remediation workflows.
  • Write unit tests, logging, error handling, and documentation for safe, supportable automations.
  • Create and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for linting, testing, scanning, packaging, and controlled deployments.
  • Read, update, and test Terraform modules and plans while identifying insecure cloud configuration patterns.
  • Automate AWS inventory, access reviews, configuration validation, tagging checks, and security findings triage.
  • Develop narrowly scoped internal agents using approved tools and permitted knowledge with human approval for impactful actions.
  • Collaborate with security, platform, cloud, SOC, and engineering teams and participate in incident follow-up, peer review, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Working proficiency in Python and REST APIs, including the ability to read, debug, and improve others' scripts.
  • Hands-on Git and GitHub experience and familiarity with CI/CD concepts and GitHub Actions.
  • Fundamental understanding of AWS services, IAM, networking, logging, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
  • Basic Terraform experience or strong willingness to learn Terraform through repository work.
  • Understanding of least privilege, secrets handling, code review, and change control.
  • Preferred qualifications include security tooling, SIEM/SOAR, vulnerability management, ticketing, cloud operations, container technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, policy-as-code, enterprise AI tools, LLM APIs, RAG, MCP, or agent frameworks.
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Security+, or a comparable learning path is preferred.
  • Candidates should be comfortable learning unfamiliar tools, asking technical questions, documenting work clearly, and validating AI-generated code.

Benefits

  • The posting references health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits without specifying particular offerings.
  • External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at a VERSANT Media location before a hiring decision.
  • The role includes guided growth toward independent ownership of well-defined automations.

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