Senior Security Engineer

Pantheon Systems; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to oversee security operations and enhance threat detection strategies. The role involves significant hands-on technical work, incident response leadership, and mentoring across teams. The ideal candidate will possess 10 years of experience in security operations and expertise in SIEM and SOAR platforms. Competitive compensation and an inclusive work environment are offered.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Full medical coverage

Monthly wellness allowance

Access to LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience in security operations.
• Proven experience with SOC detection and incident response.
• Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain SIEM, building detections.
• Lead incident response workflows and threat hunting.
• Build automated workflows for alert triage.

Skills

Security operations engineering

Incident response

Threat hunting

Scripting

Collaboration

Communication

Education

10+ years in security roles

CISSP certification

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Overview

About Pantheon

Pantheon is the WebOps platform for websites that deliver extraordinary results. We believe in putting the magic of the internet in everyones hands. Thats why were so passionate about helping developers IT and marketing develop test and release website changes faster and more reliably so they can build and maintain websites that create value for their organizations. Our cloud native software makes it easy to securely manage a single website or thousands of websites across multiple teams in one platform.

Pantheon's core values are Trust Teamwork Passion and Customers First. At Pantheon we work hard and play harder valuing individuality humor and balance. Were enthusiastic participants in several open-source communities and have real relationships with many of our most active customers. If all of this sounds interesting to you read on!

The Role

As a Senior Security Engineer SecOps youll be the backbone of Pantheons security operations designing implementing and running the detection and response capabilities that keep our platform and customers safe. You will lead efforts in threat detection incident response and operational resilience while driving automation and scalable processes to mature Pantheons security posture.

This is a hands-on role with leadership expectations: youll own key SecOps technologies shape incident response strategy and mentor engineers across teams in security best practices.

What youll do

• Threat Detection & SIEM Operations: Enhance and maintain Pantheons SIEM building detections across cloud endpoint and identity sources; tune alerts to reduce noise and increase actionable insights.
• Incident Response & Threat Hunting: Lead incident response workflows build playbooks conduct tabletop exercises and proactively hunt for malicious activity across Pantheons environment.
• Automation & Security Engineering: Build and scale automated workflows for alert triage enrichment and response using SOAR APIs and scripting.
• Vulnerability & Exposure Management: Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to triage vulnerabilities reduce attack surface and operationalize remediation.
• Abuse & Fraud Prevention: Create and operate automated controls to detect and stop account abuse credential attacks and platform misuse.
• Identity & Access Monitoring: Strengthen detection around IAM SSO and privileged access events with a zero-trust lens.
• Business Resilience: Represent SecOps in business continuity and disaster recovery planning ensuring operational readiness during crises.
• Metrics & Reporting: Define and deliver meaningful SecOps metrics to leadership demonstrating security effectiveness and highlighting areas for improvement.
• Mentorship & Team Enablement: Train engineers and incident responders in SecOps processes tools and best practices.

What you Bring to the Table

• 10 years of relevent experience
• Proven experience in security operations engineering (SOC detection engineering IR threat hunting or SecOps leadership).
• Expertise with SIEM / SOAR platforms endpoint detection (EDR / XDR) cloud logging / monitoring (GCP / AWS) and identity security (Okta or similar).
• Strong technical knowledge of attack techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) incident response workflows and forensic analysis.
• Solid background in scripting / automation (Python Bash or equivalent).
• Ability to prioritize and execute during high-pressure incidents.
• Strong collaboration skills you can partner with SRE Engineering and GRC teams to keep Pantheon resilient.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills for exec-level reporting and team enablement.
• Passion for threat intelligence continuous improvement and building scalable SecOps capabilities

Preferred Experience

• CISSP certification
• Operating SIEM and SOAR solutions
• Hands-on with cloud-native security tooling including Cloud Security Posture Management Security Vulnerability Scanners or Threat Intelligence Platforms.
• Familiarity with abuse monitoring phishing detection and takedown processes .
• Experience supporting compliance efforts such as SOC2 PCI DSS and NIST CSF with a focus on operational controls.
• Exposure to threat intelligence platforms bug bounty programs or red team collaboration .
• Building dashboards and security metrics for executive visibility .
• Involvement in tabletop exercises business continuity planning and resilience testing .

What We Offer

We have all the usual perks and benefits but what we can really offer you is a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team.

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO) Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 11 Paid Company Holidays
• Full medical coverage (Extended health care dental vision)
• Top-of-line equipment
• Monthly allowance for wellness reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development
• Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire educate and cultivate

Pantheon is an equal opportunity action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race color religion sex national origin ancestry age marital status sexual orientation gender identity veteran status disability or any other classification protected by law. Pantheon complies with federal and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process please contact Pursuant to local and federal regulations Pantheon will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

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The Canadian base salary range for this position is $110000 - 125000 per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. At Pantheon it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 110000 - 125000