Security Principal at Optiv designing AI security solutions for clients, leveraging advanced security services and technologies. Driving pipeline generation and maintaining strong client relationships as a trusted advisor.
About the role
- Senior Security Engineer at Wattpad implementing security controls for AWS cloud systems. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure data protection and secure software practices.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and monitoring security controls in our AWS cloud infrastructure to balance protection with scalability.
- Influencing the technical direction of the Engineering & Data department by introducing secure development practices and threat modeling.
- Acting as a force multiplier by building security automation workflows and "guardrails" that allow teams to ship code safely and quickly.
- Directly solving complex security challenges, including incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities.
- Assisting teams in implementing access management and compliance controls, compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001), and risk governance.
- Building and maturing our application security program, partnering with engineering teams to triage findings from our Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
- Collaborating with engineers on implementing security best practices to help raise the security bar across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of work experience in SecOps, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, or similar security-focused role
- AWS security expertise: Hands-on experience with Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS WAF, and IAM policy management
- SIEM experience highly desirable: Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms (query development, alert tuning, incident investigation)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code security: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) including security hardening
- Strong scripting and automation skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Experience securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions strongly preferred)
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks
- Understanding of enterprise and cloud network security architecture and controls
- SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 compliance experience
- Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity - ability to define and execute on loosely-scoped problems
- Balanced communication style - proactive collaborator when needed, deep-focus engineer when required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits
- Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
- Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
- Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
- RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
- Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
- Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
- Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year
- Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!
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