Senior Trust Automation Engineer

Bangalore·Posted today

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<div class="content-intro">Who we are DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at <a href="http://www.digicert.com/">www.digicert.com</a></div>Job summary We are seeking a Senior Trust Automation Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of automation across DigiCert’s Trust Office and Security Engineering functions. This role focuses on strategic automation, reducing systemic manual effort, improving security decision quality, and enabling scalable, reliable operations through advanced orchestration, integrations, and AI-assisted workflows. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in security automation, security engineering, or DevOps, demonstrates strong architectural judgment, and can independently drive automation initiatives from problem discovery through production adoption. This role acts as a technical authority and multiplier, influencing tooling, standards, and best practices across security teams.   What you will do <h2>Primary Responsibilities and Competencies</h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Architect, design, and lead security automation platforms and workflows that materially reduce manual effort and operational risk across Trust Office teams</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own the end-to-end lifecycle of automation solutions, from requirements discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and review Python-based automation frameworks and services that integrate security tools, APIs, and internal data sources at scale</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build and evolve advanced automation for vulnerability management, alert triage, enrichment, decisioning, remediation orchestration, reporting, and audit evidence generation</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as a technical partner and advisor to Security, Compliance, Standards, and Platform Operations teams.</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify, prioritize, and justify high-impact automation opportunities, balancing risk reduction, efficiency gains, and engineering effort</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design and implement AI/LLM-assisted security automation (e.g., enrichment, summarization, classification, decision support) with strong governance, validation, and security guardrails</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define and enforce automation reliability standards, including logging, monitoring, testing strategies, error handling, and rollback mechanisms</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive integration and orchestration patterns across SIEMs, ticketing systems, cloud services, and internal platforms</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Produce and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and technical standards to ensure scalability, consistency, and knowledge sharing</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide technical mentorship and code review for other engineers contributing to automation initiatives</li> </ul>   What you will have <h2>Required Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7+ years of experience in security engineering, automation engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience leading automation projects from inception to successful completion. Candidates should demonstrate a track record of developing detailed project plans, managing timelines and budgets, and delivering measurable results.</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep proficiency in Python, API design, and large-scale system integrations</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience architecting and operating security automation in production environments</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong hands-on experience with automation platforms (or equivalent SOAR/automation tools)</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Practical, production experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into automated workflows with appropriate controls</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advanced experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and release management</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders</li> </ul>   Nice to have <h2>Preferred Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, including data modeling and alerting strategies</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms, including IAM, logging, and security services</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience designing automation that integrates with Jira, ServiceNow, or similar ITSM platforms at scale</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience operating in highly regulated environments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, WebTrust) and automating audit and compliance workflows</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prior experience acting as a technical lead or domain expert for security automation or SOAR initiatives</li> </ul>   Benefits <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Generous time off policies</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Top shelf benefits</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Education, wellness and lifestyle support</li> </ul>   To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.   #LI-SS1

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