Senior Security Operations Engineer

Cohere
Toronto
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Empathy","Communication","Flexibility"]

Senior Security Operations Engineer responsible for hardening cloud-native environments (AWS, OCI, GCP) and enabling secure infrastructure at scale through IaC, IAM/RBAC management, and security tooling. Partners with leadership and engineering teams to articulate risks, deploy SIEM/SOAR and other security services, respond to incidents, support compliance initiatives, and drive secure-by-default designs while balancing build vs. buy decisions and developer needs.

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Cohere
Cohere
4 months ago

Senior Security Operations Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Security Operations Engineer responsible for hardening cloud-native environments (AWS, OCI, GCP) and enabling secure infrastructure at scale through IaC, IAM/RBAC management, and security tooling. Partners with leadership and engineering teams to articulate risks, deploy SIEM/SOAR and other security services, respond to incidents, support compliance initiatives, and drive secure-by-default designs while balancing build vs. buy decisions and developer needs.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as trusted advisor to team leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
  • •Harden cloud-native environments by introducing secure by default designs and features into network, tooling, and processes
  • •Own and drive resolutions for enabling engineers to design, build, and use infrastructure securely at scale by deploying secure architectures using infrastructure-as-code and reusable code libraries
  • •Manage IAM / RBAC for cloud infrastructure, and partner with IT on streamlining authentication/authorization to ensure unified access control
  • •Deploy and operationalize security services and tools (eg: SIEM, SOAR, domain monitoring, endpoint tooling, cloud security tooling)

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalRemote WorkParental LeaveMeal AllowanceCo-working Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in SecOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Threat Detection & Response or software development with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
  • •Hands-on security engineer focused on automating controls
  • •Experience managing cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI) and Kubernetes environments
  • •Familiarity with CI/CD systems and SecOps workflows (Git, Terraform) in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI)
  • •Experience with infrastructure automation, network segmentation, system hardening, container and cloud security concepts, and security observability
Experience:5+ yearsCloud securitySecOpsDevSecOps
Skills:Problem-solvingEmpathyCommunicationFlexibility
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSOCIGCPAzureKubernetesGitTerraformSIEMSOAR

Company Brief

Cohere
Builds security-first foundation models and enterprise AI products (LLMs, retrieval, agent platforms) for regulated industries, enabling customizable, private deployments across cloud and on-premises for real-world business applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
Founded: 2019
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