Cloud Security Specialist - Red/Blue Team & DevSecOps

Socket.dev; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses & flex benefits

Training & conference budget

Leadership support for development

Hybrid-remote work

Challenging work

Stock where applicable

Job summary

RBC is seeking an experienced security professional to join our technology and operations team in Toronto, focusing on cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will lead red/purple team exercises in production, advance tooling, and partner with Cloud Security, SOC/IR, Threat Intelligence, and analytics to drive practical improvements. Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences is required.

Qualifications

• Experience scripting/automation via cloud APIs or CLIs.
• Understanding of cloud-centric architectures and DevOps.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform or CloudFormation; Jenkins CI/CD.
• Background in PaaS/SaaS including SLAs, HA, patching.

Responsibilities

• Assess and improve security of public cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Participate in hands-on Red and Purple Team Exercises in production.
• Develop, evolve, and refine offensive tradecraft and tooling.
• Collaborate with defensive teams and analytics to drive security improvements.
• Communicate incident trends to cloud operations, stakeholders, and management.

Skills

Cloud scripting

Cloud platforms

DevOps & CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Config management

Linux/Windows

Security comms

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Jenkins

Job description

RBC is seeking an experienced security professional to join our technology and operations team in Toronto, focusing on cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will lead red/purple team exercises in production, advance tooling, and partner with Cloud Security, SOC/IR, Threat Intelligence, and analytics to drive practical improvements. Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences is required.