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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Leads a team responsible for product security, vulnerability management, software assurance, secure manufacturing, and cloud security applications. Establishes vulnerability remediation processes, manages SCA tools, oversees SBOM and VEX reporting, secures software signing and release operations, and develops secure customer-facing cloud platforms and APIs for exchanging trusted device and product-security information.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Conduct red team operations, adversary simulations, and offensive security assessments across cloud environments. Evaluate cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services. Identify attack paths involving IAM, secrets, metadata, automation, and configuration weaknesses. Validate detection and response capabilities with blue teams, track emerging attacker techniques, and drive remediation through concise reporting and stakeholder communication.

Designs enterprise cybersecurity architectures, reference patterns, strategies, and roadmaps spanning identity, endpoints, vulnerability management, security operations, analytics, automation, and emerging AI capabilities. Evaluates technology integration, interoperability, risks, and future-state designs; establishes guardrails for secure AI adoption; and collaborates with architects, engineers, operations teams, vendors, and executives to translate emerging technologies into practical cybersecurity solutions.

Own product and infrastructure security across fintech products and cloud environments. Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, secure code reviews, vulnerability management, bug bounty operations, CI/CD security scanning, IAM and secrets management, and security standards. Partner directly with engineering leadership to identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities across backend services, APIs, frontends, Solana programs, and infrastructure.

Senior HR Business Partner supporting technical and business teams through organizational design, manager coaching, employee relations, performance and talent management, compensation, workforce planning, organizational change, and people program execution. The role uses workforce insights to advise leaders, manage employee matters, improve organizational effectiveness, and support healthy growth across a scaling technology company.

Leads security engineering strategy and remains hands-on designing, coding, and scaling enterprise security capabilities. Builds automation, platforms, APIs, and reusable frameworks; guides cloud, infrastructure, identity, application, endpoint, and AI security. Establishes architectures, standards, and guardrails, influences executives and engineering teams, evaluates technology risks, mentors senior technical staff, and advances secure adoption of emerging technologies across cloud-native and SaaS environments.

Lead and build the company’s information security program while initially owning IT operations. Responsibilities include protecting source code and hardware designs, securing developer infrastructure and software supply chains, managing identity and access, incident response, NIST 800-171 and CMMC compliance, export-control technical safeguards, AI and data governance, device management, networking, and IT scaling. The role is hands-on and partners closely with engineering, legal, compliance, vendors, and leadership.

Leads the strategy, lifecycle, financial performance, positioning, and growth of Arctic Wolf’s Endpoint Security portfolio. The role oversees product expansion, cross-sell opportunities, competitive analysis, M&A integration, and integration with managed security services. It also leads a global product management team, establishes product metrics and operating cadences, and represents endpoint strategy to executives, customers, analysts, and partners.