Cyber Security Engineer - Automation

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

The Junior Automation Security Engineer builds and supports practical automations that make security controls easier to operate, validate, and scale. This is a hands-on engineering role for a curious builder who can write clean Python, work confidently in GitHub and GitHub Actions, and learn how Terraform and AWS services fit together. The engineer will use approved internal AI tools to accelerate research, prototyping, and documentation, while developing simple, secure agents and workflow automations under senior guidance.

What You Will Do

Security Automation & Python

• Build and maintain Python scripts, CLIs, API integrations, and scheduled jobs that reduce repetitive security and operational work.
• Automate evidence collection, configuration checks, alert enrichment, ticket creation, reporting, and basic remediation workflows.
• Write unit tests, logging, error handling, and concise documentation so automations are safe to operate and easy to support.

GitHub, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

• Contribute to repositories using pull requests, code review, branching, issue tracking, and dependency hygiene.
• Create and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for linting, testing, scanning, packaging, and controlled deployment tasks.
• Read, update, and test Terraform modules and plans with guida