Director, AI-Driven Network & Security Automation

Canada Life; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education reimbursement up to $2,000/0

Mental health benefit up to $5,000

Volunteer day

Pension plan

Employee discounts

Job summary

Canada Life is seeking a Director to lead Network & Security AI and Automation, shaping roadmaps, standards, and scalable capabilities across automation, AIOps, and AI security. You will build a team of engineers, drive automation opportunities, and ensure secure, observable operations in private and public clouds.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and cross‑functional collaboration with product, security, and platforms teams.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary degree or diploma in information technology, computer science, engineering, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Significant experience delivering and supporting highly available enterprise network and security platforms, with demonstrated leadership of engineering teams and cross‑functional initiatives.
• Proven ability to establish or mature an automation capability, translating business priorities into a practical roadmap, reusable solutions, and sustainable operating practices.
• Strong understanding of software engineering and DevSecOps practices, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, secrets management, secure deployment, and rollback.
• Experience with observability platforms, telemetry integration, event correlation, and operational analytics, with the ability to apply AI and machine learning to appropriate operational use cases.
• Strong understanding of security for generative AI platforms, applications, and agents, including risks involving prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, excessive permissions, and unauthorized tool use.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the Network & Security AI and Automation function, including its roadmap, delivery priorities, engineering standards, and long-term capability development across automation, AIOps, and security for AI.
• Build and develop a team of technical practitioners, fostering software engineering discipline, continuous learning, collaboration, and accountability.
• Partner with network and security product owners, engineering teams, and operations teams to identify and prioritize automation opportunities across the product and service lifecycle.
• Deliver reusable automation for provisioning, configuration, testing, deployment, lifecycle management, and operational workflows across private and public cloud environments.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code, API integration, orchestration, and DevSecOps practices, supported by version control, automated testing, controlled deployments, and reusable patterns.
• Engineer AIOps capabilities that integrate telemetry and service context to improve observability, correlate events, detect anomalies, and support proactive issue detection and response.
• Develop automated diagnostics and remediation with appropriate approvals, access controls, auditability, rollback, and human oversight to protect service resilience.
• Lead the engineering and integration of AI security tooling and controls within the Network & Security Services mandate, partnering with enterprise architecture, information security, technology risk, identity, data, and AI platform teams.
• Establish capabilities to discover AI services and agents, assess security posture, identify unmanaged AI use, and monitor access and activity across enterprise AI environments.
• Engineer controls for AI platforms, applications, and agents, including secure connectivity, least-privilege access, data protection, policy enforcement, and restrictions on agent tools and actions, in partnership with accountable technology teams.
• Define support models, documentation, runbooks, and operational readiness requirements with delivery and operations partners to sustain capabilities beyond initial implementation.
• Coordinate delivery across technology partners and vendors, aligning dependencies, platform integrations, and investment priorities with enterprise standards and roadmaps.
• Manage the function’s resources and tooling investments, balancing innovation and delivery with security, maintainability, cost, and long-term supportability.

Skills

Automation

AIOps

AI security

DevSecOps

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

APIs

Observability

Leadership

Education

Post‑secondary degree in information technology, computer science, engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

Canada Life is seeking a Director to lead Network & Security AI and Automation, shaping roadmaps, standards, and scalable capabilities across automation, AIOps, and AI security. You will build a team of engineers, drive automation opportunities, and ensure secure, observable operations in private and public clouds.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and cross‑functional collaboration with product, security, and platforms teams.