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Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Security

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Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Security in Canada

  • PagerDuty
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Toronto

Responsibilities

  • Harden AWS and Kubernetes environments against CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, and FedRAMP Moderate baselines using remediation tooling, evidence, and security posture KPIs.
  • Own Kubernetes and container security for EKS, Istio, RBAC, workload identity, admission control, container provenance, and runtime policy.
  • Build and operate security platforms, services, and automation using Python or Go, Terraform, Kubernetes policy-as-code, and agentic tooling.
  • Define and operate PKI, certificate lifecycle, encryption, TLS/mTLS, KMS-backed key management, and key rotation standards.
  • Design Service Control Policy guardrails and least-privilege IAM/PAM across multiple AWS accounts and organizations.
  • Author and tune SIEM detections and conduct threat hunting for container escape, lateral movement, anomalous mesh traffic, and identity or credential abuse.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, triage cloud and Kubernetes alerts, act as Incident Commander, and lead containment and post-incident reviews.
  • Partner with AppSec and GRC teams to align platform controls and produce audit and compliance evidence.
  • Mentor teammates, contribute to roadmap and annual planning, and support external- and auditor-facing communications at the senior end of the role.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of security engineering experience with deep hands-on expertise securing Kubernetes and containerized environments.
  • Strong software engineering background building and operating production systems at scale, with proficiency in Python and/or Go or similar and Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience with EKS, Kubernetes RBAC, admission control, OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno, network policy, IRSA or pod identity, container runtime and image security, and Istio or another service mesh.
  • Deep expertise with AWS security services and least-privilege IAM/PAM, including IAM, Organizations/SCPs, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Config.
  • Experience automating security controls as code, informing SIEM detection strategy, threat hunting, incident response, and on-call operations.
  • Experience scoping ambiguous projects, driving them to completion with high ownership, and building AI or agentic security automation.
  • Preferred experience with PKI, cryptography, TLS/mTLS, HSM/KMS, CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, FedRAMP, NIST CSF, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
  • Preferred experience with Wiz, CrowdStrike Falcon, Azure Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, and securing AI/ML or agentic workloads.
  • Demonstrated mentoring and strong written and verbal communication skills, plus working knowledge of PagerDuty Incident Management and Process Automation products.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of 156,800–206,800 CAD, with possible bonus, commission, equity, and benefits.
  • Hybrid work model requiring two days per week from the Toronto, Ontario office; candidates must reside in an eligible location.
  • Comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, company equity, ESPP, retirement or pension plan, paid vacation, paid holidays, and sick leave.
  • Dutonian Wellness Days and HibernationDuty paid days off, paid parental leave, and 20 hours of paid volunteer time annually.
  • Mental wellness programs and company-wide hack weeks.

PagerDuty

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