Senior Security Engineer: Hands-on Threat Detection & Cloud

Metrics Recruitment; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrics Recruitment is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to take a hands-on role across security operations, offensive security, and cloud security. You’ll combine attacker mindset with defensive expertise to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen infrastructure, and improve detection and incident response.

You’ll lead security monitoring, threat detection, SIEM tuning, and incident response, and mentor a growing security team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, penetration testing, or incident response.
• OSCP or equivalent offensive security certification.
• Strong knowledge of OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling, and attacker TTPs.
• Experience with AWS security, SIEM, scripting/automation, and tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap.
• Experience securing AI/cloud-based services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response, including SIEM tuning and threat intelligence.
• Conduct hands-on penetration testing and vulnerability assessments across applications, networks, and cloud environments.
• Manually identify and validate vulnerabilities such as SQLi and XSS, and investigate sophisticated attack patterns in raw SIEM/log data.
• Strengthen cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and Zero Trust controls.
• Build and improve security playbooks, threat models, and automated security workflows using scripting, IaC, and AI tooling.

Skills

Hands-on security

Threat detection

Mentoring

Education

OSCP or equivalent offensive security certification

Tools

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Nmap

Job description

Metrics Recruitment is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to take a hands-on role across security operations, offensive security, and cloud security. You’ll combine attacker mindset with defensive expertise to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen infrastructure, and improve detection and incident response.

You’ll lead security monitoring, threat detection, SIEM tuning, and incident response, and mentor a growing security team.