About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Platform Security Engineer to lead all aspects of platform security. This is a senior role that blends technical vision, leadership and a requirement for being hands-on in embedding security and resilience. The role requires excellent communication skills, the ability to drive and deliver a razor sharp path for improving Aquanow’s security posture across platforms and services.

What You’ll Do:

- Security Engineering and Architecture: Development and review of security architecture for all platforms, services, APIs and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead and execute threat modelling efforts across the Engineering team.
- Lead and perform security architecture reviews and ensure technical decisions are aligned with risks and engineering velocity.
- Partner with Engineering and promote security practices such as hardening standards for applicable components, logging practices etc.
- Work with the broader Security team, Engineering and GRC to tune, scale security tooling,



automation and secure processes.
- Design, review, and ensure security controls, including authentication/authorization, secret management, account takeover protection, and application layer threat detection.
- Work closely with developers to code securely from the outset and address issues early during coding and testing phases. Ability to conduct in-depth security reviews of application code.
- Enhance security tool accuracy and oversee vendor/open-source proof-of-concepts (PoVs).
- Evangelize security culture through security champion program and technical developer-focused security training.

Strategic

- Define and help execute a comprehensive platform security strategy that aligns with business, technology and product objectives.
- Establish KPIs, OKRs and reporting mechanisms.
- Guide Engineering teams in designing and integrating security aspec

📌 Platform Security Engineering Lead (Canada)
🏢 Aquanow
📍 Canada