Senior Trust Automation Engineer

Job Description

Who we are

Digi Cert 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 Digi Cert 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 Digi Cert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job summary

We are seeking a
Senior Trust Automation Engineer
to lead the design, development, and evolution of automation across Digi Cert’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 has7+ years of experience
in security automation, security engineering, or Dev Ops, 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

Primary Responsibilities and Competencies

• Architect, design, and lead
  security automation platforms and workflows that materially reduce manual effort and operational risk across Trust Office teams
• Own the
  end-to-end lifecycle
  of automation solutions, from requirements discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance
• Develop and review
  Python-based automation frameworks
  and services that integrate security tools, APIs, and internal data sources at scale
• Build and evolve advanced automation for vulnerability management, alert triage, enrichment, decisioning, remediation orchestration, reporting, and audit evidence generation
• Serve as a technical partner and advisor to Security, Compliance, Standards, and Platform Operations teams.
• Identify, prioritize, and justify
  high-impact automation opportunities
  , balancing risk reduction, efficiency gains, and engineering effort
• Design and implement
  AI/LLM-assisted security automation
  (e.g., enrichment, summarization, classification, decision support) with strong governance, validation, and security guardrails
• Define and enforce
  automation reliability standards
  , including logging, monitoring, testing strategies, error handling, and rollback mechanisms
• Drive integration and orchestration patterns across SIEMs, ticketing systems, cloud services, and internal platforms
• Produce and maintain
  architecture documentation, runbooks, and technical standards
  to ensure scalability, consistency, and knowledge sharing
• Provide
  technical mentorship and code review
  for other engineers contributing to automation initiatives

What you will have

• 7+ years
  of experience in security engineering, automation engineering, platform engineering, or Dev Ops
• Deep proficiency in
  Python
  , API design, and large-scale system integrations
• Proven experience
  architecting and operating security automation
  in production environments
• Practical, production experience integrating
  AI or LLM capabilities
  into automated workflows with appropriate controls
• Advanced experience with
  Git, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and release management

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with SIEM platforms such as
  Splunk
  , including data modeling and alerting strategies
• Strong familiarity with
  AWS or other cloud platforms
  , including IAM, logging, and security services
• Experience designing automation that integrates with
  Jira, Service Now, or similar ITSM platforms
  at scale
• Experience operating in
  highly regulated environments
  (SOC 2, ISO 27001, Web Trust) and automating audit and compliance workflows
• Prior experience acting as a
  technical lead or domain expert
  for security automation or SOAR initiatives