Red Team Security Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted offensive security assessments across cloud environments.
• Evaluate the security of cloud infrastructure, identity and access architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services.
• Identify and validate attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations, excessive privileges, exposed secrets, metadata abuse, insecure automation, and weaknesses in cloud service configurations.
• Assess security detection and response capabilities by testing logging, alerting, monitoring, and incident response processes in collaboration with blue team and detection engineering functions.
• Research emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and new abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.
• Translate findings into actionable remediation efforts and work with engineering teams to help address identified vulnerabilities.
• Communicate security risks and technical findings clearly to stakeholders across security, engineering, and other technical functions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and/or security detection validation.
• Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, with the ability to map findings to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud security, including cloud infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD environments, containers, and cloud-native services.
• Ability to identify and validate complex attack paths and assess security controls from an adversarial perspective.
• Strong technical writing skills, with the ability to produce concise, actionable security reports.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical security issues to diverse stakeholders.
• Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or recognized cloud security certifications are valued.

Benefits:

• Compensation range of $146,000–$190,000 CAD, depending on location and factors such as education, experience, and certifications.
• Potential eligibility for restricted stock units as part of total compensation.
• Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits, subject to eligibility.
• Paid time off and sick time off.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility.
• Remote work opportunity in Canada.
• Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at a global office.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.