Senior Security Automation Engineer

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Senior Security Automation Engineer to join our pharmaceutical client in Rahway, NJ. This is a 6-month contract to start with the potential for extensions. 

Pay:$70.00 - $80.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.


Schedule: 100% remote. EST coast candidates please

Description:
We are seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade security automation that reduces manual effort, suppresses operational noise, and accelerates cyber defense outcomes.

This role focuses on hands-on automation engineering across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and data security domains. The successful candidate will build safe, auditable, and production-ready automation workflows that integrate across security platforms and enterprise systems.


Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 6+ years of experience in security engineering or security automation
• Strong experience building production-grade automation systems
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, PowerShell, or similar)

Solid understanding of:

• Security operations workflows
• Alert enrichment and suppression
• Containment and response patterns
• Experience working with APIs, services, and distributed systems
• Ability to design automation that is safe, explainable, and auditable
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience integrating automation across IAM, endpoint, cloud, network, and data platforms
• Familiarity with workflow or orchestration platforms (e.g., ITSM, ticketing, or orchestration engines)
• Experience designing rollback, TTL, and staged enforcement models
• Exposure to AI-assisted workflows where automation consumes decision outputs
• Experience building dashboards or metrics for automation outcomes

What Success Looks Like:

• Delivery of production-ready automation that measurably reduces analyst workload
• Suppression of alert and ticket noise through effective automation patterns
• Reusable automation frameworks adopted across multiple security domains
• Automation actions that are trusted due to strong logging, safety controls, and transparency
• Recognition as a senior engineer who enables scalable, enterprise-safe automation

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement security automation workflows that reduce manual intervention across security domains
• Build integrations using APIs and services to execute guardrail-enforced security actions
• Develop automation that operationalizes detection, enrichment, suppression, and containment workflows
• Extend automation into enterprise workflow systems where orchestration or approvals are required

Implement safety controls including:

• Kill switches
• Dry-run and test modes
• Time-limited actions
• Staged deployments (development, testing, production)
• Ensure observability and auditability by logging automation actions with correlation identifiers
• Create reusable automation patterns, connectors, and frameworks that scale across teams
• Collaborate with security engineers, platform engineers, and data scientists to deliver integrated solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at info@primarytalentpartners.com

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