Security Engineer IV
Spectraforce
Calgary, Alberta
2 days ago
Job Description
Title: Security Engineer IV (ACRE DevSecOps Engineer)
Location:100% Remote
Duration: 1 year (with the possibility of extension)
Travel: Business travel (North America inc. USA) 5% - 15% (circumstance-dependent)
High Level Description:
Specific Accountabilities:
Scope
Contacts
Knowledge ,Skills and Required:
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $90.00/hr.
Location:100% Remote
Duration: 1 year (with the possibility of extension)
Travel: Business travel (North America inc. USA) 5% - 15% (circumstance-dependent)
High Level Description:
- We are seeking a skilled and proactive DevOps/Security Engineer to join our team at ACRE. This role is critical for ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency. T
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevSecOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and security protocols, with a passion for optimizing processes and safeguarding our systems.
Specific Accountabilities:
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate the software development process and improve deployment efficiency.
- Monitor system performance and reliability, ensuring high availability and responsiveness of the ACRE platform.
- Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to integrate security best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- Incorporate and maintain security assessments and vulnerability scans into the delivery cycle.
- Oversee Penetration / Ethical Hacking testing.
- Implement and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and security protocols.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging security threats, applying new techniques and technologies to enhance the security posture of the organization.
- ·Provide support for incident response and disaster recovery planning, ensuring business continuity in the event of a security breach or system failure.
Scope
- Critical role as a member of the ACRE team, striving to integrate security best practices throughout the development lifecycle, improve deployment efficiency, and in supporting the short-, medium- and long-term goals of the company up to and potentially including an external sale process.
- The is a start-up company and the individual in this role will be responsible for building relationships and working collaboratively with the Technical and Marketing and Sales teams.
Contacts
- ·Internal relationships include communication with some corporate functions (incl. Insurance, TIS)
- External relationships include some communication with external customers or service providers (incl. Brokers, Advisors, Developers, Others)
Knowledge ,Skills and Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.?
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or security engineering, preferably in a startup or fast-paced environment.?
- Strong proficiency with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB.?
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools.?
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and version control systems (e.g., Git).?
- Solid understanding of security best practices, including network security, application security, and data protection.?
- Experience with scripting languages for automation and process improvement.?
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) for managing cloud resources.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks and regulations relevant to the insurance or legal industries (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).?
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to ensure system health and security.?
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) are a plus.
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $90.00/hr.