Senior Security Engineer

Magnet Forensics is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Security Engineer to join our dynamic team and play a key role in ensuring the security and integrity of our organization's products and customers’ data.

The Senior Security

Engineer will be part of the engineering organization and responsible for implementing, managing, and enhancing security measures across our applications, products, and services to protect against potential cyber threats and attacks. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background, a deep understanding of security best practices, and love to collaborate with developers and engineering teams to identify and mitigate security risks effectively. You’ll be a part of a talented team responsible for a wide range of product and engineering security programs.

Design, implement, and maintain application security processes and tooling such as SAST, SCA, containers, etc. Collaborate with software developers and system administrators to review and improve the security architecture of new and existing applications, systems, and code. Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and web application scanning.

Monitor security events, analyze logs, and generate reports to identify suspicious activities, potential threats, and security breaches. Establish and enforce security policies, standards, and guidelines in alignment with industry best practices, legal requirements, and internal security policies. Design, implement, and maintain security infrastructure components in AWS and Azure such as Security Hub, Inspector, Config, Defender for Cloud. 5+ years as a Security Engineer or in a similar role, demonstrating hands‑on experience in implementing, and improving a security program.

Strong knowledge of security protocols, cryptography, and common security technologies.



Ability to automate security tasks and integrate with various CI/CD tooling and processes. Experienced with one or more scripting languages and reading basic scripts (Python, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or etc.).

Comfortable with writing pipelines for automation tasks (Jenkins, AzDO, GitLab, GitHub). Strong familiarity writing IaC (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform) with experience in deploying cloud workloads securely in either AWS or Azure and monitoring them for threats. Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills to identify and address security vulnerabilities effectively.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross‑functional teams and articulate complex security concepts to non‑technical stakeholders. Degree or diploma in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

Experience in designing and building controls around AI usage in an engineering environment (models/technologies such as Claude Code/Bedrock/OpenAI/RAG/Txt&Img; Classifiers/Agents/etc.).

MIN: $111,300 – MID: $159,000 – MAX: $190,800 CAD Healthcare and Retirement Perks We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect. Here at Magnet Forensics, we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Magnet

Forensics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request throughout the hiring process.

US Applicants: Magnet Forensics participates in E‑Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.

📌 Senior Security Engineer - Compliance Operations (Winnipeg)
🏢 Magnet Forensics
📍 Winnipeg