Senior Security Architect: Incident Response & AI Defense

Kinross Gold Corporation; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinross Gold is seeking a Principal Security Architect to lead the design and evolution of our incident response and cyber defense architecture. This senior role guides detection, containment, and recovery across a global, hybrid environment spanning corporate IT, cloud, and mine sites.

You will translate threat reality into business decisions and validate AI-generated defenses. Your responsibilities include defining reference architecture for defensive controls, developing detection standards,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity with depth in security architecture.
• Senior incident-handling experience required and proven leadership.
• Ability to translate threat and risk into business terms for executives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end incident response architecture across IT, cloud, and OT.
• Design and improve playbooks, escalation paths, and automation with human oversight.
• Lead complex security incidents and provide senior technical authority when automation reaches limits.

Skills

Adversarial thinking

Incident response

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Executive communication

Team mentorship

AI in security

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Security certifications (GCIA, GCIH, CISSP)

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Job description

Kinross Gold is seeking a Principal Security Architect to lead the design and evolution of our incident response and cyber defense architecture. This senior role guides detection, containment, and recovery across a global, hybrid environment spanning corporate IT, cloud, and mine sites.

You will translate threat reality into business decisions and validate AI-generated defenses. Your responsibilities include defining reference architecture for defensive controls, developing detection standards,