Cybersecurity Remediation Specialist Professional Markham, CA

IBM

Markham

Hybrid

CAD 90,000 - 167,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

IBM in Markham, ON is seeking a Cybersecurity Remediation Specialist to join the Remediation Engineering team. You will help drive technical resolution of security risk across the enterprise, partnering with incident response, engineering, and architecture to remediate vulnerabilities and implement scalable security improvements.

This role emphasizes hands‑on threat containment, recovery, and post‑incident remediation, with opportunities to design repeatable remediation patterns and develop

Qualifications

Ability to work independently or as part of a team while operating effectively in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
Strong problem‑solving skills with attention to detail and a proactive mindset.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and business teams; and explain technical remediation steps to non‑technical stakeholders.
Ability to collaborate effectively and, with experience, influence remediation outcomes across federated teams.
Experience conducting security reviews and translating findings into actionable engineering guidance.
Experience applying and maintaining secure configurations across systems, networks, or applications.
Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate triage, remediation recommendations, and incident response, with appropriate human review and judgement.
Knowledge of vulnerability management, common attack patterns, and mitigation techniques. (e.g., OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK.)

Responsibilities

Support containment, recovery, and post‑incident remediation by identifying root causes and implementing technical fixes that reduce recurrence.
Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security within existing practices.
Conduct security and risk assessments of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, including threat modeling and targeted technical review.
Apply security principles to protect systems and data, ensuring availability, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity.
Create technical documentation outlining remediation guidance and security best practices.
Develop or implement tools to support detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.

Skills

Independent work

Problem solving

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Security reviews

Secure configurations

Vulnerability management

MITRE ATT&CK

AI-assisted triage

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Python

Ansible

Terraform

IBM Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

EDR

SIEM

SOAR

Kubernetes

Job description

The CISO Remediation Team is looking to add a cybersecurity Remediation Engineer as part of the overall Cyber Defense organization. In this role, you will contribute to and, over time, drive the technical resolution of security risk across the IBM enterprise, operating at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture. You will help teams recover from incidents, remediate vulnerabilities, and implement durable, scalable security improvements.

Depending on the engagement and experience level, you may remediate issues directly, partner with engineering teams to drive fixes, or design repeatable remediation patterns. This role is not a primary SOC, detection, or application security pipeline ownership role, but partners closely with those teams to drive remediation outcomes.

Your role and responsibilities

The ideal candidate thrives in high‑pressure environments, thinks like both an attacker and defender, and communicates clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

This role spans multiple technical domains. Candidates are not expected to be experts in all areas; strong candidates demonstrate deep expertise in one or two domains and working knowledge of adjacent areas.

Areas of specialization may include:

Scripting, Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tooling
Cloud & Virtualized Environments: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP; virtualization and container platforms
Operating Systems & Networking: Windows or Linux; network segmentation, SDN, and isolation techniques
Security Technologies: EDR, NGFW, IDS, SIEM, SOAR, and related platforms

Key Duties:

Support containment, recovery, and post-incident remediation by identifying root causes and implementing technical fixes that reduce recurrence.
Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security within existing practices.
Conduct security and risk assessments of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, including threat modeling and targeted technical review.
Apply security principles to protect systems and data, ensuring availability, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity.
Create technical documentation outlining remediation guidance and security best practices.
Develop or implement tools to support detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Ability to work independently or as part of a team while operating effectively in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
Strong problem‑solving skills with attention to detail and a proactive mindset.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and business teams; and explain technical remediation steps to non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to collaborate effectively and, with experience, influence remediation outcomes across federated teams.
Experience conducting security reviews and translating findings into actionable engineering guidance.
Experience applying and maintaining secure configurations across systems, networks, or applications.
Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate triage, remediation recommendations, and incident response, with appropriate human review and judgement.
Knowledge of vulnerability management, common attack patterns, and mitigation techniques. (e.g., OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK.)

Preferred technical and professional experience

~4-8 years of experience in security engineering or adjacent engineering roles. (e.g., networking, infrastructure, cloud, or application development.)
Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Kubernetes.
Experience using automation and AI to reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR).
Familiarity with Agile development environments.
Foundational understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulations and how they inform risk‑based remediation decisions. (e.g., NIST CSF, NIST 800-series, ISO 27001, PCI.)
Certifications are a plus but not required; hands‑on experience is valued most. (e.g., CISSP, CISM, OSCP, SANS, cloud security certifications.)

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

Job Title

Cybersecurity Remediation Specialist - Markham, ON

Job ID

120521

City / Township / Village

Markham

State / Province

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work