Top Cyber Security Jobs in Ottawa

Owns enterprise AI customer deployments from discovery and product scoping through delivery, adoption, and measurable value. Translates customer workflows into product requirements, deployment roadmaps, and technical solutions while partnering with engineering, sales, finance, legal, security, and customer success. Evaluates AI-specific considerations, business cases, risks, and product opportunities, then converts recurring customer needs into scalable capabilities and operating playbooks.

Lead radio security engineering and system-level verification across lab and field environments. Design and validate software mitigations, run vulnerability analysis and protocol testing, reproduce and debug field issues, build and operate verification labs, and develop AI-enabled automation and CI/CD integrations to orchestrate security tools and produce structured reports.

Support and improve security operations for production environments. Responsibilities include troubleshooting complex security issues, reviewing secure configurations, investigating root causes, applying security processes, automating checks, and managing encryption, certificates, PKI, keys, and HSMs. The role also maintains runbooks, documents findings, assesses risk, and coordinates security improvements across teams.

Designs and builds secure, scalable systems protecting products, infrastructure, and customer data. Responsibilities include authentication and OAuth integrations, authorization platforms, BYOK capabilities, security tooling, cloud security controls, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and security testing. The role partners with engineering and product teams, establishes secure development practices, leads complex security projects, and mentors engineers.

Secures Snyk’s GCP and AWS cloud platforms through threat modeling, IAM hardening, Kubernetes and container security, Terraform and pipeline fixes, CSPM integration, and secure configuration baselines. Uses AI coding agents and MCP integrations to scale infrastructure remediation while reviewing changes for unsafe defaults, excessive permissions, and agent-related risks. Works consultatively with platform teams to implement and measure security improvements.

Build GitLab code security capabilities spanning dependency analysis, SBOM and lockfile parsing, vulnerability detection, AI-assisted analyzers, and automated dependency remediation. Design evaluation harnesses, package analyzers for CI and AI workflows, improve security report accuracy, and extend ecosystem coverage. Own initiatives from design through delivery, mentor engineers, collaborate across product and engineering teams, document systems, and participate in on-call support.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

Lead hardware and embedded security for Motive devices: establish secure-by-default baselines (boot chain, firmware, FOTA, manufacturing), perform threat modeling and architecture reviews, define security requirements, drive remediation with hardware teams, and build scalable security components and automation across device lifecycle and cloud-connected infrastructure.

Lead complex security incident investigations from assessment through recovery, coordinating containment, remediation, evidence preservation, and stakeholder communication. Analyze threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and application environments. Build code, queries, automation, and AI-assisted workflows to improve evidence collection, detection, case management, and response. Lead post-incident reviews, drive lasting improvements, mentor responders, and participate in the incident response on-call rotation.

Own third-party risk management and business continuity programs while building production data pipelines, integrations, policy-as-code controls, continuous monitoring, and agentic AI workflows. The role requires defining technical direction, integrating imperfect data sources, automating evidence collection, and partnering across Security, Procurement, Resilience, and Engineering teams to improve governance and operational resilience.

Partner with sales teams to win strategic data security opportunities. Deliver technical presentations, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations, configure solutions, and design test plans. The role requires extensive pre-sales experience, security and networking expertise, data protection knowledge, AI fluency, and collaboration across matrixed go-to-market and partner teams.

Own security risk identification, quantification, prioritization, and remediation across third-party risk, assessments, and security findings. Maintain risk registers, reporting, metrics, and remediation tracking while partnering with technical and business stakeholders. Lead AI risk management for ISO 42001 certification and build automation, scripting, and AI-enabled tools to improve GRC workflows. Monitor emerging risks, frameworks, regulations, and threat trends, communicating business-relevant risk insights to leadership.

Conduct red team operations, adversary simulations, penetration testing, and offensive security assessments across cloud environments. Evaluate cloud infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and cloud-native services; identify attack paths and configuration weaknesses; validate detection and response capabilities; track emerging attacker techniques; and drive remediation through concise reporting and stakeholder communication.

Serves as the primary security services contact for customers, guiding the integration and effective use of Akamai web security products. Collaborates with cross-functional and sales teams to understand customer needs, tune solutions, implement security and web technologies, and improve delivery methodologies. Requires expertise in internet protocols, CDN operation, web development, IT systems, security practices, consultative customer engagement, and project management. Must be able to obtain and maintain Canadian government clearance.

Lead hands-on product security architecture across GitLab, including design reviews, threat modeling, systemic risk remediation, security standards, prototypes, and reusable developer guardrails. Partner with engineering and product leaders, secure distributed systems and software supply chains, guide AI coding tool security, mentor security engineers, and influence technical direction through proactive architecture and clear communication.

Develop and govern enterprise security architecture, roadmaps, policies, standards, reference architectures, and secure solution designs. Lead threat modeling, risk assessment, compliance, and resilience initiatives aligned with ISO, NIST, financial regulations, and cyber threats. Collaborate with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and payment ecosystem stakeholders; facilitate working groups; present architectural recommendations; mentor security professionals; and mature the organization’s security architecture function.

Supports information security compliance through control assessments, evidence gathering, audit support, exception reviews, regulatory reporting, third-party risk assessments, policy governance, and secure-by-design reviews. Tracks findings and remediation actions, maintains compliance documentation, prepares management reports, and collaborates with stakeholders across security, technology, procurement, legal, privacy, and project teams. The role applies frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST, SWIFT CSP, and related financial-sector regulations and standards.

Provides end-to-end security consultancy, customer integration, and technical support for Akamai solutions. Serves as the primary customer contact, leads integrated account teams, improves service delivery, identifies risks and enhancements, and communicates with customers, partners, and internal teams. Requires strong knowledge of network or web security technologies, customer-facing IT experience, technical project delivery skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Conduct AI-driven security assessments across software, hardware, and firmware; develop AI-enabled offensive and defensive security tooling; identify and remediate vulnerabilities; test LLMs, agentic workflows, and cloud environments; and guide organization-wide AI security strategy. Partner with engineering and leadership, lead threat-modeling sessions, and communicate security findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Triage bug bounty and vulnerability management reports, validate findings, assess severity, identify duplicates, and coordinate remediation through closure. Collaborate with PSIRT, engineering, legal, communications, customer success, and security teams. Support CVE assignments as a CNA representative, communicate with researchers and customers, maintain accurate records, monitor operational metrics, and improve vulnerability-handling procedures, runbooks, and documentation.

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, communicate findings to stakeholders, build investigation tools and automated workflows, and improve security operations processes. The role requires Python scripting, SIEM experience, cloud security knowledge across AWS and GCP, and forensic analysis across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Build and operate MITRE ATT&CK-aligned threat detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, email, and application telemetry. Own the detection lifecycle, advance detection-as-code with Git, testing, CI/CD, and observability, and improve data ingestion and enrichment. Evaluate AI-assisted security capabilities, translate threat intelligence into detections, and partner with Security Operations during investigations and incident exercises. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, SIEM expertise, AWS and Linux knowledge, and independent project leadership.

Lead technical discovery, customized demonstrations, and proofs of value for enterprise CTEM customers. Map vulnerability, asset, ticketing, and remediation workflows; integrate customer tools; prove exposure-management outcomes using customer data; and communicate findings to engineers, CISOs, and executives. Maintain presales deal information, provide product feedback, create reusable demo and POV assets, and expand expertise into third-party risk management and cyber risk quantification.

Leads company-wide security architecture and roadmap, identifies systemic risks, and prioritizes remediation. Oversees security across wallet and key management, trading systems, identity and access, software development, and infrastructure. Builds risk assessment, threat detection, and incident response capabilities while advising the CTO on emerging threats, security priorities, and investments.

Lead Affirm’s enterprise AI security review program, threat-model AI and LLM applications, assess agentic systems and tool permissions, and design automated guardrails, controls, monitoring, and policy-as-code. Review code, prompts, configurations, vendors, and SaaS AI capabilities; develop testing and red-team scenarios; identify emerging vulnerabilities; support incident response; and lead cross-functional initiatives across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance.