Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Blackline Safety; Calgary; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackline Safety is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to provide technical leadership across global technology environments and collaborate with Cybersecurity Operations, Application Security, and GRC resources.

The role reports to the Vice President, BITE & Cybersecurity and focuses on leading complex security initiatives, improving detection, and guiding architecture decisions to reduce risk.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing security controls across complex enterprise environments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills for security tooling and integrations.
• Experience with cloud security, IAM, network security, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement controls, architecture patterns, standards, and baselines across enterprise environments.
• Lead investigations, security initiatives, and technical implementations.
• Identify weaknesses, propose practical solutions, and evaluate security technologies.
• Troubleshoot issues across multiple systems; escalate as needed.
• Translate cybersecurity strategy into executable initiatives and operations.

Skills

PowerShell

Python

AWS

Microsoft Graph

REST APIs

Automation

Identity & Access Security

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Our team at Blackline Safety is growing! As a people-driven technology company, with a mission to make sure every worker returns home safely, we drive innovation, practice resiliency, demonstrate leadership, go the extra mile for our customers, and empower our people to be their best.

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer will provide technical leadership across these environments while working alongside dedicated cybersecurity specialists, including Cybersecurity Operations, Application Security, and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) resources.

Reporting to the Vice President, Business Information Technology & Cybersecurity, this position will serve as the senior technical cybersecurity resource within the team and will work across Blackline Safety's global technology environment.

The successful candidate will be highly technical, comfortable operating across multiple security domains, capable of influencing teams outside of their reporting structure, and interested in developing into broader cybersecurity leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Senior Cybersecurity Engineering
  • Design and implement controls, architecture patterns, technical standards, and configuration baselines across complex enterprise environments.
  • Lead complex investigations, security initiatives, proof-of-concepts, and technical implementations.
  • Identify systemic weaknesses, recommend practical solutions, and evaluate security technologies.
  • Troubleshoot issues spanning multiple systems and serve as an escalation point for cybersecurity and technology teams.
  • Translate cybersecurity strategy into executable initiatives and transition new capabilities into operations.
  • Automate security enrichment, investigation, remediation, reporting, validation, and guardrails.
  • Develop scripts and integrations using PowerShell, Python, Microsoft Graph, AWS and GitHub APIs, REST APIs, and other appropriate tools.
  • Integrate preventative controls into technology deployment processes.
• Cloud Security
  • Review cloud architecture, IAM, privileged access, network exposure, encryption, secrets, certificates, and key management.
  • Assess logging, monitoring, CSPM/CNAPP, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment controls.
  • Identify misconfigurations and insecure patterns, support investigations, and work with Cloud Engineering and Software teams to implement preventative controls.
• Identity & Access Security
  • Conditional Access, identity protection, phishing-resistant authentication, and federation/SSO.
  • Privileged access, just-in-time administration, PIM, role-based access, and least privilege.
  • Service accounts, non-human identities, Active Directory hardening, and identity attack-path reduction.
• Infrastructure & Network Security
  • Firewall architecture, segmentation, NAC, SASE/ZTNA, secure remote access, and administrative controls.
  • Infrastructure monitoring and security configuration standards.
• Vulnerability & Exposure Management
  • Validate and prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, threat intelligence, and compensating controls.
  • Identify attack paths and recurring weaknesses, develop remediation strategies with technical owners, and validate corrective action.
  • Analyze penetration-test findings and improve visibility of the enterprise attack surface.
  • Help the organization understand and reduce meaningful technical exposure.
• Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Response
  • Lead or support complex investigations, technical escalation, threat hunting, containment, remediation, and root-cause analysis.
  • Improve detection engineering, incident-response playbooks, tabletop exercises, and post-incident controls.
  • Provide technical leadership during significant cybersecurity incidents.
• Technical Leadership
  • Mentor cybersecurity team members and provide guidance without becoming a bottleneck.
  • Review technical designs, establish engineering standards, and help prioritize cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives and represent Cybersecurity in architecture and project discussions.