Point72
Financial Services
SecurityAutomationLead
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“Security Automation Lead at Point72. Skills: Security automation, Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, People management. Lead design and operation of security automation pipeline. Build drift reconciliation and validation engines”
What You'll Achieve.
Detect and remediate divergence; Accelerate delivery of security controls; Enable rapid incident detection; Harden cloud-native workloads; Reduce toil; Reduce bypass rate; Reduce change failure rate; Reduce drift detection time; Reduce remediation time; Improve sprint predictability
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Demonstrated experience building and operating security automation pipelines, Hands-on experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi, Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, Working knowledge of container orchestration platforms, Experience designing and operating observability stacks, Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks, Direct people management experience, Demonstrated experience operating in sprint discipline, Working knowledge of enterprise security tooling
Nice to Have
Kubernetes cluster operations experience, Helm chart management experience, Image lifecycle experience, Admission controller integration experience, Prometheus experience, Grafana experience, Datadog experience, Splunk experience, Open Policy Agent experience, Rego experience, Sentinel experience, Cedar experience
What You'll Do.
Lead design and operation of security automation pipeline
Build drift reconciliation and validation engines
Detect and remediate divergence
Replace manual console operations
Implement infrastructure-as-code deployment patterns
Build reusable automation components
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Design observability and monitoring pipelines
Instrument container and Kubernetes security workflows
Harden cloud-native workloads
Run team's sprint cycle
Integrate automation with tooling
Drive transition from manual work to automation
Define operational metrics
Track operational metrics
Report operational metrics
Drive continuous improvement
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Agile methodologies
Process & Methodology
Sprint cycle, Backlog prioritization, Capacity planning, Definition of Done
Full Job Description
A Career with Point72’s Technology Team As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications. As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business. What you’ll do Lead the design and operation of a single, auditable security automation pipeline where security controls are authored, reviewed, validated, and deployed Build drift reconciliation and validation engines that detect and remediate divergence across endpoint, identity, cloud, and vulnerability management domains Replace manual console operations with version-controlled, auditable automation built on infrastructure-as-code and configuration management platforms Implement and scale infrastructure-as-code deployment patterns and reusable automation components that accelerate delivery of security controls across teams Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines with automated linting, policy-as-code checks, pre-deployment validation gates, and promotion workflows Design observability and monitoring pipelines that surface drift, control failures, and deployment health across environments and enable rapid incident detection and response
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