Secure Automation Engineer

Compunnel Inc.; Montreal; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. in Montreal seeks an experienced Secure Automation Engineer (Level 4) with 7–15 years of advanced scripting and secure‑engineering skills to modernize internal tools, automate code analysis, and migrate legacy Perl code into supported, maintainable languages.

You will implement and enforce secure transport standards (SSH certificates, TLS), apply AI coding assistants, and drive automated security tests within CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development or engineering experience.
• Advanced hands-on Python expertise.
• Working knowledge of Perl for legacy code migration.
• Experience implementing secure transport standards.
• Hands-on experience with SSH certificates and TLS protocols.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and automated refactoring tools.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Agile development (Scrum, Kanban).
• Hands-on experience with Jira or other issue-tracking systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and run automation in Python to analyze, improve, and harden code across internal repositories.
• Migrate and modernize legacy Perl code into supported, maintainable languages.
• Implement and enforce secure transport standards across services, including SSH certificates and TLS protocols.
• Apply AI coding assistants and automated refactoring tools to accelerate code improvement at scale.
• Enhance the team’s use of automation for security testing and deployment within CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform code reviews and contribute to secure-by-design standards, patterns, and guidance.

Skills

Python

Perl

SSH certificates

TLS protocols

AI coding assistants

CI/CD

Agile development

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Secure Automation Engineer (Level 4) with 7-15 years of advanced scripting and secure-engineering skills to modernize and strengthen the security of internal tools and services. This role involves automating code analysis and improvement across internal repositories, modernizing legacy components, and raising secure transport and engineering standards. The engineer will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, collaborating with team members to deliver value.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and run automation in Python to analyze, improve, and harden code across internal repositories.
• Migrate and modernize legacy Perl code into supported, maintainable languages.
• Implement and enforce secure transport standards across services, including SSH certificates and TLS protocols.
• Apply AI coding assistants and automated refactoring tools to accelerate code improvement at scale.
• Enhance the team’s use of automation for security testing and deployment within CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform code reviews and contribute to secure-by-design standards, patterns, and guidance.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years or more of software development or engineering experience.
• Advanced hands‑on expertise in Python.
• Working knowledge of Perl for legacy code migration.
• Experience implementing secure transport standards.
• Hands‑on experience with SSH certificates and TLS protocols.
• Hands‑on experience with AI coding assistants and automated refactoring tools.
• Hands‑on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Hands‑on experience with Agile development (Scrum, Kanban).
• Hands‑on experience with Jira or other issue‑tracking systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.
• Familiarity with recognized application security standards (e.g., OWASP).
• Experience with Static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools.
• Cross‑platform scripting across Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience with SQL and Database Design.