Job Description

Candidate profile details:

• Degree/Certifications Required: software engineering degree, CCSP is a Plus CISSP a plus
• Years of Overall Experience: 10+ of overall exp
• Ideal Candidate Background: communication verbal and written, willing to learn new tech. Hands on with. Background with infrastructure, cyber security would be a plus someone who has worked with that before EDR,
• Identity and access management background plus
• How will performance be measured: quality of work, deliverables
• Stakeholders interaction - yes 50%
• Selling Points of Position (CVP): opportunity to work with new technologies in the business.
• Work with a lot of innovation - first hand experience.
• Work with different start ups - giving feedback to suppliers

Summary of day-to-day responsibilities:

• Facilitating conversations with stakeholders and startups
• Implementation POV - proof of value
• End to end working with stakeholders - deploying to the end

About This Role:

• We are looking for a Senior Engineer to be a key player in client's Emerging Technology Lab- the engine that drives our evaluation, testing, and adoption of latest security solutions.
• In this role, you will combine deep technical skills with a curious, experimental mindset to design, build, and operate secure lab environments where new ideas become reality.
• You will lead vendor engagements, proof-of-concept initiatives, integrate new tools into our security ecosystem, and benchmark technologies against real-world scenarios before enterprise deployment.

Job Requirements:

• Evaluate and onboard emerging security technologies through vendor showcases, proof-of-concept testing, and technical scoring.
• Build integrations between new security tools and existing platforms, leveraging APIs, orchestration frameworks, and automation pipelines.
• Design and operate an environment where business units and security teams can test, evaluate, and validate new products securely.
• Work closely with architecture, threat intel, SOC, and risk teams to align emerging tech adoption with enterprise security strategy.
• Develop success criteria and benchmarks for evaluating scalability, security, and performance of new technologies before enterprise rollout.
• Manage the lifecycle of the security lab IT Infrastructure, user environments and security technologies
• Monitor the health of the security lab systems to meet defined service level objectives
• Implement security controls to protect the lab, and simulate a desired security stack for testing and validation
• Work with internal customers to translate use cases and business requirements into technical requirements for implementation of new environments
• Create technical and user documentation to enable knowledge sharing among the team as well as the user community

It helps if you have:

• University or Post-Graduate Degree.
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).
• 7-10 years relevant experience.
• Strong system administration experience with both Windows and Unix operating systems
• Strong hands-on experience with VMWare environments, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP and firewalls
• Strong knowledge of common network protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP etc.
• Knowledge of connectivity and networking, including configuration of routers and switches
• Experience with scripting languages including Shell, PowerShell or Python

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Experience in infrastructure automation or Infrastructure-as-code for provisioning and management of a hybrid cloud infrastructure (Morpheus, Terraform, Ansible or similar)
• Familiarity with API-based integrations for security products.
• Knowledge of endpoint protection, data protection, network security, identity and access management tools and principles.
• Hands-on experience working with security products
• Sound knowledge with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, GCP)
• Experience working with HP Simplivity is a bonus

Must-Have Hard Skills:

• Communication skills very important
• Strong hands-on experience with VMWare environments, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP and firewalls
• Strong knowledge of common network protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP etc.
• Experience with scripting languages including Shell, PowerShell or Python
• Sound knowledge with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, GCP)
• Familiarity with API-based integrations for security products.
• Hands-on experience working with security products
• Cyber security - 5+

Nice-To-Have:

• Any AI experience
• Identity and access management background

Job Details
13638
Contract
1 Year
Toronto
85.00 CAD
Recruiter
Komal

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