Senior Security Engineer - Automation

Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, United States; candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global location.

Salary: USD 130,000–160,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a media and entertainment company operating brands across political news, business news, golf, sports, and genre entertainment, including CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, Fandango, and Rotten Tomatoes.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate reusable Python services, libraries, CLIs, and integrations for security and operational automation.
• Automate identity reviews, cloud remediation, evidence collection, security findings enrichment, exception management, and incident response orchestration.
• Develop secure GitHub Actions and CI/CD patterns with reusable workflows, OIDC, artifact controls, approvals, policy checks, and supply-chain protections.
• Build Terraform modules, guardrails, and policy-as-code controls for secure AWS environments.
• Develop governed AI automations and agents with bounded tool access, prompt-injection defenses, audit logs, evaluations, and human approvals.
• Set the automation roadmap, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with platform, cloud, SOC, and application teams.

Requirements

• Strong Python engineering skills, including API integration, testing, packaging, error handling, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on expertise with GitHub and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, OIDC, permissions, secrets, and CI/CD controls.
• Strong Terraform experience with modules, state, plans, testing, code review, and policy or guardrail implementation.
• Deep practical knowledge of AWS security and cloud architecture, including IAM, network boundaries, logging, encryption, and serverless or container services.
• Experience designing reliable, observable, least-privileged automation and leading cross-team technical discussions.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM application risks and controls for safe agentic automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with SIEM/SOAR, detection engineering, incident response, vulnerability-management automation, or policy-as-code tools.
• Experience with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, RAG, evaluation frameworks, or enterprise AI platforms.
• AWS Security Specialty, AWS DevOps Engineer, CISSP, Security+, or comparable certification.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with compensation based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Benefits may include health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
• Work focuses on measurable reductions in manual effort, recurring AWS risks, and delivery-security friction.
• Teams are expected to adopt documented, reusable, and safe AI-assisted development practices.

Hiring process

• External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a hirify.global Media employee at one of the company’s locations before a hiring decision.