Security Engineer - Cloud & SaaS Security (Hybrid/Remote)

Kinaxis Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Kinaxis Days

Flexible work options

Well-being programs

Mentorship and career development

Hackathons

Job summary

Kinaxis in Ottawa, Canada, is seeking an Information Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across a hybrid environment and the Kinaxis Maestro SaaS platform. You will collaborate with IT, SaaS Operations, Product Development, and Business Systems to strengthen detection, response, and risk management.

The role emphasizes cloud security, CI/CD integration, vulnerability management, and incident response, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, IT, or equivalent.
• 6–8 years in security engineering, cloud security, or enterprise security.
• Hands-on with security controls across multiple domains.
• Experience securing GCP and/or Azure, including hybrid/multi-account setups.
• Understanding of modern auth, identity federation, and access control models.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and SOC 2.
• Ability to influence architecture and roadmap priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate security controls across Corporate IT and Kinaxis Maestro SaaS platform.
• Translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions across identity, endpoints, networks, workloads, applications and data.
• Lead security engineering for cloud migrations, SaaS integrations, containerization, and platform modernization.
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Collaborate with Security Architecture to deploy guardrails and approved patterns.
• Drive vulnerability management, risk reduction, and remediation tracking.
• Support detection engineering, incident response, and post-incident analysis.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

GCP/Azure

Identity & access

NIST CSF/ISO 27001

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SIEM/XDR

Kubernetes security

Cloud IAM

Job description

Kinaxis in Ottawa, Canada, is seeking an Information Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across a hybrid environment and the Kinaxis Maestro SaaS platform. You will collaborate with IT, SaaS Operations, Product Development, and Business Systems to strengthen detection, response, and risk management.

The role emphasizes cloud security, CI/CD integration, vulnerability management, and incident response, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and contribute to