Senior Security Operations Engineer (Talent pool building)

Portage Ventures GP Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

League is hiring a Senior SecOps Engineer to scale security across the development lifecycle. You will own detection, response, tuning, and playbooks, coordinating with IT, Engineering, Legal, and other teams. We value cloud security, automation, and strong communication.

You should have 7+ years in cybersecurity with incident response focus, or 3+ years in security operations with SOAR automation. Experience in Python/Go and IaC is a plus. Remote-friendly with AI-aware workflows.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years in Cybersecurity with incident response focus or 3+ years in Security Operations with SOAR experience.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM/EDR and cloud security principles.
• Experience with scripting (Python/Go) and IaC (Terraform/Ansible).
• Ability to lead incident response processes and coordinate cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Security Monitoring and Incident Response: monitor events, lead response, develop incident playbooks.
• Security Tooling and Automation: manage SIEM/EDR/SASE; build automation workflows.
• Threat Management: research threats and develop detection rules.
• Security Engineering and Architecture: design secure systems and controls.
• Collaboration and Communication: align security with other teams and leadership.
• Compliance and Reporting: ensure standards and audits are addressed.

Skills

SIEM

EDR

SASE

Terraform

GCP

Cloud Functions

Cloud Run

Python

Go

SOAR

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (or related field)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

BigQuery

Job description

About League

League is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada and the leading healthcare experience platform. Getting healthcare is often the easy part — finishing it is where things fall apart: people book the appointment and skip the follow‑up, fill the prescription and stop taking it, get the referral and never make the call. That gap costs health plans and health systems money, and it costs people their health. League closes that gap — identifying what each person needs to do next, clearing what’s in their way, and getting it done, for the 70 million+ people whose care already runs through our platform. Health plans and health systems trust us to do this at scale. Organizations like Manulife, SCAN, Geisinger, and Medibank on the payer side, and Baptist and Shoppers Drug Mart on the provider side.

Position Summary

League’s Security Engineering teams are responsible for scaling security in the development lifecycle and managing security incident management. We believe in security by design and follow a paved road philosophy by building or buying tools that we can integrate into our platform to ultimately make it easier for our engineers to do the right thing. As a Senior SecOps Engineer you will care deeply about “what goes bump in the night”. You have peers in Security Engineering who care about “build it secure” at League, your role is to ensure both validation and response occurs when inevitable challenges arise. This role will focus on detection, response, tuning, and refinement. Security Engineers and Analysts on our SecOps team take pride in response.

As always, if this is your skillset we encourage you to apply. We also accept and encourage applicants who have existing software engineering experience and want to explore security and applicants who may have done a security program in a post‑secondary institution. There are people across the engineering organization who are ready to help grow technical skills and who want to learn more about security.

About the Role

• Security Monitoring and Incident Response:
  • Monitors security events and alerts from various sources (SIEM, endpoint detection, SASE, etc.) and analyzes them to identify potential security incidents.
  • Leads security incident response efforts, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
  • Develops and maintains incident response plans, playbooks, and procedures.
  • Coordinates with cross-functional teams (IT, Engineering, Legal, etc.) during security incidents.
  • Perform root cause analysis of security incidents and recommend preventive measures. Independently analyzes complex security incidents, identifying root causes and developing solutions and drives them to completion.
  • Participate in an on‑call rotation.
• Security Tooling and Automation:
  • Manage and maintain security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, EDR, and SASE platforms.
  • Develop and implement automation scripts and workflows to improve security operations efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage GCP services (e.g., Cloud Functions, Cloud Run) to host and automate security scripts and tools for event enrichment and response.
  • Proficiency in utilizing GCP services like Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage for data processing, analysis, and enrichment.
  • Evaluate and recommend new security tools and technologies to enhance our security posture.
  • Manage and maintain infrastructure through Terraform.
• Threat Management:
  • Conduct threat research and analysis to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Develop and implement threat detection rules and use cases.
• Security Engineering and Architecture:
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of security systems architectures and solutions.
  • Evaluate and recommend security controls for new and existing systems.
  • Ensure security best practices are followed in system development and implementation.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure security is integrated into all aspects of the organization's operations.
  • Communicate security risks and issues to technical and non‑technical audiences, including leadership.
  • Mentors and provides guidance to junior security analysts and engineers to develop their technical growth.
• Compliance and Reporting:
  • Ensure compliance with relevant security standards and regulations (e.g., HITRUST, NIST, GDPR).
  • Prepare and present security reports to management.
  • Participate in routine audits within the organization

About You

• Bachelor of Science degree (BS) in Computer Science (or a related field)
• Minimum of 7 years in Cybersecurity with a strong focus on Incident Response, or
• Minimum of 3 years in Security Operations with hands‑on experience in SOAR and other automation tools.
• Deep and broad technical understanding of security concepts, principles, and technologies.
• Experience with security monitoring tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR), including configuration and administration of these tools.
• Proven leading and coordinating incident response processes and methodologies.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go).
• You have some Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) experience or a strong desire to learn.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and implementing these in security operations.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• You are a collaborator at your core
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Nice to Haves

• Security certifications (e.g., OffSec Certifications, GIAC Certifications).
• Experience with digital forensics
• Experience with cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Security Orchestration,Automation and Response (SOAR).
• Knowledge of networking protocols and security.
• Contributions to the security community at League, and more broadly (eg. blog posts, conference presentations, etc.)

AI Fluency & Ways of Working

At League, we are an AI‑native organization. We expect all employees regardless of role or level to thoughtfully leverage AI to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work.

What this means in practice:

• Use AI tools as part of your daily workflow to enhance productivity, problem‑solving, and decision‑making (e.g., drafting, analysis, coding, research, or process automation)
• Apply judgment and accountability when using AI by reviewing outputs for accuracy, bias, and quality before use
• Continuously learn and adapt as new AI tools and capabilities emerge, incorporating them into your ways of working
• Identify opportunities to improve how work gets done from personal productivity to team‑level workflows by leveraging AI effectively
• Operate with strong data responsibility and security awareness, especially when working with sensitive or regulated information

How this scales by level:

• Individual Contributors: Use AI to improve personal productivity and quality of output
• Senior ICs / Managers: Integrate AI into team workflows and improve processes
• Leaders: Drive AI adoption at the organizational level and shape how work is done across teams

What we look for:

• Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a practical, responsible way
• Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new technologies
• Ability to balance efficiency with quality and sound judgment

AI Fluency & Ways of Working

At League, we are an AI‑native organization. We expect all employees regardless of role or level to thoughtfully leverage AI to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work.

What this means in practice:

• Use AI tools as part of your daily workflow to enhance productivity, problem‑solving, and decision‑making (e.g., drafting, analysis, coding, research, or process automation)
• Apply judgment and accountability when using AI by reviewing outputs for accuracy, bias, and quality before use
• Continuously learn and adapt as new AI tools and capabilities emerge, incorporating them into your ways of working
• Identify opportunities to improve how work gets done from personal productivity to team‑level workflows by leveraging AI effectively
• Operate with strong data responsibility and security awareness, especially when working with sensitive or regulated information

How this scales by level:

• Individual Contributors: Use AI to improve personal productivity and quality of output
• Senior ICs / Managers: Integrate AI into team workflows and improve processes
• Leaders: Drive AI adoption at the organizational level and shape how work is done across teams

What we look for:

• Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a practical, responsible way
• Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new technologies
• Ability to balance efficiency with quality and sound judgment

Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at League and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you are an individual in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Here are some additional resources to learn more about League:

• Learn about our platform, leadership team and partners
• Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League: new digital front door to seamless care
• Former Providence President and Workday EVP of Corporate Strategy join League Board of Directors
• League raises $95 million USD in Series C to build world’s leading healthcare CX platform
• Forbes x League: The Platformization Of Healthcare Is Here
• Fast Company x League: If we want better innovations in healthtech, we need more competition

Work Location

We have a mix of office‑centric roles based in our vibrant Toronto office, and remote‑eligible roles based anywhere in Canada or US. Each job posting will indicate where the role will be based. Regardless of the role’s posted location, all Toronto‑area Leaguers (living within 65 km of our downtown HQ) collaborate in‑office Monday through Thursday. Depending on your distance to the office, you’ll enjoy 10 or 20 Flexible Remote Days each quarter for focus and deep‑work time. We are committed to fostering a meaningful work environment and connections for all Leaguers regardless of location.

Use of AI Notice

We are committed to ensuring fairness and transparency throughout our hiring process. League may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the