Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Saint Elizabeth; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Canada is seeking a skilled Senior Cloud Security Engineer. The role involves overseeing cloud security configurations across platforms like Azure and ensuring compliance with internal and external standards. Responsibilities include incident management, governance of cloud systems, and regular audits to maintain security integrity. Candidates should possess relevant IT education and experience in cloud security management. Join us to make a meaningful impact in health care and innovation.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Pension plan

Flexible pay options

Tuition support

Exclusive staff perks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in cloud security management and compliance.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and NIST.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and enhancement of cloud security configurations.
• Conduct quarterly audits of access and security logs.
• Investigate and respond to cloud security incidents.

Skills

Cloud security management

Azure platform knowledge

Incident response

Identity and access management

Network security

Education

Post-secondary education in IT-related field

Tools

Azure

SaaS applications

Job description

Join us in re-imagining health care with the largest social enterprise in Canada. SE Health is leading a multi-year enterprise transformation project that leverages human-centered design to be at the forefront of innovation within the healthcare sector. As a leader in home care, we are expanding and enhancing our capabilities to provide personalized experiences using new platforms and cloud-native architectures, ensuring privacy and security by design. Our transformation is grounded in guiding principles drive to ensure that we prioritize team decisions, long-term planning, process standardization, data-driven insights, and balanced user adoption. If you are driven by the desire to have an impact, change the world of health care and shape the future, we invite you to be part of our journey.

Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the integrity, scalability, and security of SE Health’s cloud environments. This position is responsible for designing, maintaining, and supporting cloud security configurations across platforms such as Azure and key SaaS applications, including identity and access models, network security controls, workload protection, and encryption standards, while ensuring compliance with segregation of duties and internal security controls. In addition to managing daily cloud security change requests and performing system audits, the role supports security monitoring and incident response activities, enhancing the organization’s overall cloud posture. The individual collaborates closely with the technology team and business stakeholders to define cloud security strategy, implement new security capabilities, and ensure cloud systems are governed in a sustainable and risk‑mitigated manner.

Job Responsibilities

Cloud Security Governance and Controls

• Lead the design, maintenance, and enhancement of cloud security policies and configurations across platforms such as Azure, and key SaaS systems, including identity and access management, network security controls, workload protection, and data visibility models.
• Monitor and manage cloud security change requests, ensuring appropriate access controls, privileged roles, and segmentation rules are implemented to maintain environment integrity and reduce risk.
• Conduct quarterly audits of access, role assignments, configurations, and security logs to ensure alignment with internal controls, compliance standards, and Segregation of Duties (SOD).
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning by validating cloud platforms' role in critical workflows, resilience configurations, and system availability.

Compliance, Risk, and Internal Controls

• Ensure cloud security configurations and practices align with internal security policies and frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, PHIPA, and other applicable compliance requirements.
• Document and maintain internal security controls, audit trails, and change records across cloud platforms to support both internal and external audit activities.
• Vet and validate requests for new or modified cloud access, privileged roles, security groups, policies, and configurations to ensure adherence to security, compliance, and least‑privilege principles.

Security Configuration and System Optimization

• Configure and maintain cloud security architecture, including IAM models, conditional access policies, endpoint and workload protections, network segmentation rules, and encryption standards across multiple environments.
• Implement and support enhancements, new security capabilities, and configuration changes to strengthen cloud posture and align with evolving business and technical needs.
• Coordinate and perform testing of security updates, policy changes, and new integrations to ensure smooth deployment and minimal disruption to operations.
• Respond to support requests for cloud‑related security issues, troubleshooting access, policy conflicts, or configuration errors.

Incident Management and Risk Mitigation

• Investigate and respond to cloud security incidents, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to assess impact, determine root cause, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Recommend enhancements, guardrails, or policy changes based on incident trends, risk findings, audit results, or vulnerability reports.
• Continuously assess risks related to identity, privileged access, integrations, misconfigurations, and data exposure across cloud environments and propose mitigation strategies as needed.

Reporting, Stakeholder Support, and Documentation

• Develop and deliver cloud security dashboards and reports that provide visibility into access, configuration health, compliance posture, and operational metrics.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver secure, scalable solutions that support operational efficiency and governance.
• Maintain clear documentation on cloud security architecture, standards, procedures, and change management processes to support training, onboarding, and ongoing governance.
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing across multiple teams.

Qualifications

Post‑secondary education in an IT‑related field (e.g., Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology) or an equivalent combination of relevant education, certifications, and professional work experience.

Why join SE Health?

• Competitive Total Rewards
  So much more than a paycheque! Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, flexible pay options, car‑loan support, housing solutions and exclusive staff perks.
• Flexibility & Belonging
  Thrive with hybrid work, flexible scheduling and a supportive, inclusive culture that puts people first.
• Purpose & Impact
  Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
• Growth That Meets Your Ambition
  Access tuition support, training and meaningful career pathways across a growing, future‑focused organization.

About SE Health

At SE, we love what we do. Every day, we bring hope and happiness to clients, homes, and communities across Canada. We treat each person with dignity and love, like our own family; we build empathy; and we do the right thing. We are always inspired to make a difference. As a not‑for‑profit social enterprise, we share knowledge, provide the best care, and help each client to realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. We are an inclusive workplace offering competitive pay, benefits, pension, and work‑life balance. We’re a great place to work, and we hope you’ll join our team.

In the interest of the health and safety of our patients/clients, employees, and greater good of public health, SE Health requires those that wish to work for this organization to be fully vaccinated against COVID‑19. Fully vaccinated means a person has received both doses of the COVID‑19 vaccine and it has been 14 days since the last dose.

SE Health is committed to the success of all its employees. If you feel you need accommodations because of illness or disability, please do not hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] at your earliest convenience.