Your Opportunity The Senior Ethical Hacker will conduct security assessments on web applications and cloud services by emulating real-world attacks using the Mitre Attack Framework. Their goal is to identify security weaknesses, help prevent data breaches and enhance the security posture by uncovering vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and risks proactively before they are discovered by threat actors.

Your Key Responsibilities

Communication

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (security, engineering, cloud and network operations).
- Create reports and communicate findings to various technical teams, architects and engineers.
- Create and communicate processes that could help engineering teams meet remediation goals.
- Create and verbally present your test findings in debrief meetings with the C-Suite or sponsors.

Cloud Application

- Conduct penetration tests on cloud systems, applications and APIs to identify vulnerabilities.
- Assess cloud/application specific configurations, access controls, and encryption mechanisms.
- Validate and exploit security findings within web/thick client apps and cloud environments.
- Validate various app services, databases, Kubernetes, serverless functions, container instances,
- images and cloud storage blob/buckets for security issues.

Project work/Knowledge Share

- Assist/Create rules of engagement for new pen test projects.
- Architect automated workflows for independent security evaluation and assurance processes
- Establish and enforce security baseline controls through Policy-as-Code implementations
- Engineer custom Python, Terraform, and Ansible extensions to enable specialized security and
- infrastructure use cases
- Create or populate content in the internal training lab so developers and security champions can stay
- current in offensive security with practical CTF's when time permits.




- Provide live hacking webinars for teams interested in learning by example.
- Conduct internal Red Team engagements.
- Participate in purple team engagements.

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Perks Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D;) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

📌 Senior Ethical Hacker (Toronto)
🏢 Stantec.
📍 Toronto