Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer: Building and optimizing detection and response engineering for hirify.global Cloud's services (Azure, AWS, Kubernetes) with an accent on preventative, detective, and responsive controls. Focus on characterizing unauthorized activity, developing tailored detection policies, and integrating threat intelligence to enhance security measures.

Location: Remote, restricted to Canada or the United States. U.S. Candidates: applicants for this role must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident. Canadian Candidates: applicants for this role must undergo personnel security screening and maintain Protected B reliability status.

Salary: C$100,000–C$295,000

Company

hirify.global delivers real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security, helping Fortune 100 organizations and government entities reduce complexity, cost, and risk.

What you will do

• Build and operate hirify.global Cloud's detection and response engineering in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes using DevOps methodologies.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance the design and effectiveness of Cloud and Kubernetes security measures.
• Proactively characterize unauthorized activity and malicious behaviors in cloud and container infrastructure.
• Develop tailored detection policies, perform testing, and implement automation using SecDataOps best practices.
• Proactively integrate the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends to enhance security detection.
• Work with engineering, IT, and other security groups to create expandable and adaptable solutions.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers.
• Be on periodic on-call for triage of critical events from detections and systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Cloud Security, IT Security, or a related technical field preferred.
• U.S. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident.
• Canadian Candidates must undergo personnel security screening and maintain Protected B reliability status.
• 5-7 years of experience in cloud security event prevention, detection, and response for public cloud systems (AWS, Azure) within a DevOps environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Kubernetes environment, logging, and runtime security for sensitive container workloads (preferably AKS and EKS).
• Experience in detection and response engineering methodologies, including building detection cases and identifying cyber threats.
• Experience using security query or analytic tools for security data analysis (e.g., SQL, KQL, SPL).
• Experience using high-level programming languages (Go, Python) to produce detection-as-code, tools, and automations.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure as infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi).

Culture & Benefits

• Stewards of a culture emphasizing collaboration, respect, and diversity.
• Team members have 5 days of volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to their communities.
• Focus on revolutionizing IT challenges for large enterprises and governments.