Director, Secure Applications & Platform

Newfold Digital; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading web technology company in Canada seeks a passionate technical leader to drive Application and Product Security Engineering. You will lead a team in securing customer applications and product platforms, collaborating with various teams to foster a security-first approach in development. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience and a strong understanding of security principles in application development.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate security topics and provide direction.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams on security problems.
• Hands-on experience in software engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Assess security layers across infrastructure and applications.
• Collaboration with teams to threat model secure systems.
• Review source code against secure coding best practices.
• Drive design and implementation of security services.

Skills

Communication of security topics

Problem-solving in security

Hands-on software engineering

Knowledge of Java

Knowledge of Python

Knowledge of JavaScript

Knowledge of SQL

Knowledge of Perl

Knowledge of CI/CD

Job description

A leading web technology company in Canada seeks a passionate technical leader to drive Application and Product Security Engineering. You will lead a team in securing customer applications and product platforms, collaborating with various teams to foster a security-first approach in development. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience and a strong understanding of security principles in application development.