
Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Specialist
- London, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Oversee and operate continuous monitoring of network traffic, systems, and applications to detect, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents, utilizing advanced security tools and methodologies for proactive defense.
- Operate continuous monitoring of public, private, or hybrid cloud environments, applications, and services to detect, analyze, and respond to security threats and findings, utilizing advanced cloud management and security tools.
- Lead cloud program functions, including detection, triage, investigation, containment, remediation, and reporting, ensuring minimal impact on business operations and continuously improving response processes through automation.
- Leveraging an offensive security mindset, proactively identify opportunities to enhance security measures, streamline processes, and optimize tooling, leveraging an offensive security mindset.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of cloud-related findings in systems and configurations to determine risk and assess the scope of issues and root cause, using standard practices.
- Develop and maintain a robust cloud management program that enhances the organization's cloud posture. This involves identifying and assessing risks within the cloud infrastructure, implementing and optimizing security controls, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Perform threat hunting activities using advanced analytical techniques and tools to identify and mitigate undetected threats, and potential vulnerabilities within the organization's cloud systems.
- Develop and deliver risk-based performance and security reports that provide actionable insights and recommendations by analyzing findings, threats, and vulnerabilities, informing decision-makers of the current cloud posture and ensuring alignment with organizational risk management strategies.
- Create and maintain comprehensive security documentation, including policies, procedures, and guidelines, and support security awareness training programs to educate staff about cyber threats, safe practices, and fostering a security-conscious culture.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cloud Computing, or a related field, or equivalent work experience in information technology.
- 4-7 years of experience in cloud management within a Cloud Security Operations team with a focus on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., cloud management platforms, cloud security tools) and knowledge of programming languages and automation scripts (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
- Skilled in interpreting and analyzing data from multiple cloud management and security tools and sources to detect indicators of performance issues and malicious activities.
- Deep technical expertise in public and private cloud compute infrastructure and cloud-native technologies.
- Deep technical knowledge of security threats, risks, and vulnerabilities within IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments and integrations.
- Experience in cloud networking architecture and hybrid-cloud operations, network and encryption experience, including virtual private networks (VPNs), IPsec, SSL/TLS, LDAP, and public key infrastructure (PKI).
- Experience in a multi-platform environment with containerized or VM-based Linux and Windows.
- Experience with container risk monitoring at both build and runtime and developing and maintaining expertise in cloud-native security solutions, including container security, Kubernetes, and cloud networking and security services.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clear and concise risk-based reporting; ability to work both collaboratively in a team environment and independently; eagerness to learn and a proactive attitude towards professional development.
- Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies
- 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break
- 401(k)/DCPP matching
- Annual bonus program
- Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces
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