Senior Staff Security Engineer | Systems Engineering
ServiceNow1 day ago
Remote, Canada or Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority for security engineering in the Canadian regulated environment.
- Engineer, harden, and operate security controls across on-premises, cloud, and isolated infrastructure.
- Build automation and infrastructure-as-code for security engineering, operations, reporting, and remediation.
- Partner with infrastructure, application, and platform owners to drive remediation and track CIS and NIST compliance.
- Support identity, vulnerability scanning, logging, cloud security, and ServiceNow security tooling.
- Produce operational and executive-facing security posture and performance reporting.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on security or systems engineering experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Expert Linux administration and troubleshooting across OS internals, host networking, storage, virtualization, and containers, with proficiency in DNS, NTP, and LDAP.
- Proficiency in Python and Shell for production-grade automation and integrations.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible or Puppet, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
- Expertise in network security fundamentals including firewalls, segmentation, load balancers, and proxies.
- Experience hardening systems against CIS, STIG, or NIST baselines and translating requirements into technical controls.
- Experience using AI-powered tools, automated workflows, AI-driven insights, or evaluating AI applications in work processes.
- Understanding of Canada Protected B classification and data residency requirements for Canadian government systems.
- Hands-on experience in at least two areas including identity and access management, vulnerability management, public cloud security, security data platforms, infrastructure security, ServiceNow administration, or ServiceNow Security Operations.
- Preferred qualifications include CISSP, CCSP, CISM, ServiceNow CSA, Tenable Certified Engineer, Cribl Admin, or GCP security certifications; regulated or air-gapped government experience; and knowledge of ITIL and ITSM processes.
Benefits
- The position supports Government of Canada Protected B workloads and ServiceNow sponsors the required Reliability Status screening through its Company Security Officer.
- Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, live in Canada, and perform all work from within Canada.
- Employment is conditional on successfully completing and maintaining the required screening, with possible higher-level clearance requirements in the future.
- The role has a Flexible or Remote work persona, subject to ServiceNow work-persona eligibility rules.
- Employee type is Regular.
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About ServiceNow
ServiceNow builds a cloud platform for enterprise digital workflows, covering IT service management, customer service, HR service delivery, security operations, and operations management, plus tools for custom app development. It sells subscription SaaS to large organizations and public-sector agencies to automate processes and connect data across systems. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NOW.