Security Operations Engineer

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About the role

  • Security Operations Engineer protecting CircleCI’s CI/CD platform, infrastructure, and customer data. Improving threat detection, incident response, automation, and AI-enabled security operations.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, investigate, and respond to security threats across CircleCI’s cloud and application environments
  • Use security and AI-assisted tooling to improve detection and triage
  • Participate in security risk assessments, incident response, post-incident reviews, and rotating on-call support
  • Turn findings into stronger security controls and processes
  • Build and maintain security tooling, controls, and automation across cloud, application, and CI/CD environments
  • Identify vulnerabilities and configuration risks
  • Contribute to security runbooks and compliance requirements
  • Incorporate AI-powered security tools into day-to-day workflows
  • Evaluate emerging technologies that can improve detection, response, and automation
  • Stay current on AI-specific security threats and contribute to responsible approaches for using AI in security operations
  • Partner with Engineering teams to understand security needs and provide practical guidance
  • Translate technical risks into clear, actionable recommendations
  • Contribute to security roadmap planning, technology evaluations, and team documentation
  • Build strong relationships across Security and Engineering

Requirements

  • 3+ years of security engineering or security operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated expertise
  • Hands-on experience with cloud, application, and CI/CD security, ideally in AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
  • Experience with security incident response and common security tooling, including EDR, CNAPP, SASE, vulnerability scanners, and log analysis
  • Ability to build and maintain security automation and tooling, with experience in Go, Python, or Terraform
  • Strong security judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, make recommendations, and take action when information is incomplete
  • Hands-on experience using AI/ML-powered security tools in a production environment
  • Understanding of where AI can improve security workflows and where human judgment remains essential
  • Familiarity with AI-specific threat categories such as prompt injection, model supply chain risks, and LLM abuse patterns
  • Experience securing developer platforms, SaaS environments, or CI/CD infrastructure
  • Relevant certifications such as CEH, AWS Security Specialty, Security+, or equivalent are nice to have
  • Contributions to team process improvement, security runbook development, or internal knowledge sharing are nice to have

Benefits

  • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during the application or interview process and to perform essential job functions
  • Other benefits and privileges of employment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$127,500 - CA$159,500 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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