Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer (Cloud/Kubernetes): Building and operating hirify.global Cloud detection and response engineering in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes with an accent on detection-as-code, security automation, and SecDataOps-driven security intelligence. Focus on solving complex cloud/container threat detection, incident triage, and continuous hardening to close defensive gaps before they impact hirify.global Cloud.

Location: Remote (Canada)

Salary: C$154,000–C$236,000 annually

Company

hirify.global provides Autonomous IT for endpoint management and security.

What you will do

• Build and operate detection and response engineering for hirify.global Cloud in Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes, using automation as code with DevOps methodologies.
• Continuously evaluate and improve Cloud and Kubernetes security measures and run an ongoing program to close gaps in the defensive posture.
• Characterize unauthorized activity and malicious behaviors in cloud and container infrastructure via code, testing, and automation.
• Develop detection policies, test them, and implement automation to observe, evaluate, enhance, and review security information using SecDataOps best practices.
• Integrate emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends to improve detections and generate intelligence-driven hunts.
• Participate in periodic on-call triage for critical events from detections and systems.

Requirements

• U.S. candidates: must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident (per 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) and 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• Canadian candidates: must undergo personnel security screening and maintain Protected B reliability status.
• 5–7 years of cloud security event prevention, detection, and response for public cloud systems (AWS/Azure) within a DevOps environment.
• 3+ years hands-on Kubernetes security experience (logging and runtime security) for sensitive container workloads, preferably on AKS and EKS.
• Experience with detection and response engineering methodologies (building detection cases, identifying known/unknown threats, advisory behaviors).
• Experience using security query/analytic tools such as SQL, KQL, or SPL; plus detection-as-code using Go or Python and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation/ARM/Pulumi).

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with an annual base salary range of C$154,000–C$236,000.
• Volunteer time off (VTO): 5 days set aside to contribute to community causes.
• Emphasis on collaboration, respect, and diversity.
• Equal opportunity employer; accommodations available during the hiring process.