Sr. 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 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 Will Do

Automation Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and operate reusable Python services, libraries, CLIs, and integrations that automate security controls and operational workflows.
• Establish engineering standards for reliability, testing, observability, secrets handling, access control, and lifecycle ownership of automations.
• Automate high-value workflows such as identity and access reviews, cloud configuration remediation, evidence collection, security findings enrichment, exception management, and incident response orchestration.

GitHub, GitHub Actions & DevSecOps

• Own and improve GitHub Actions patterns for secure CI/CD, including reusable workflows, OIDC-based cloud access, artifact controls, approvals, and policy checks.
• Integrate code scanning, dependency controls, secrets detection,