Principal Consultant - Cybersecurity & Agentic AI

Synechron
Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Lead hands-on cybersecurity engineering initiatives focused on agentic AI-driven vulnerability discovery, remediation, and secure CI/CD integration for enterprise applications and infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment.

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Synechron
Synechron
2 months ago

Principal Consultant - Cybersecurity & Agentic AI

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Job Summary

Lead hands-on cybersecurity engineering initiatives focused on agentic AI-driven vulnerability discovery, remediation, and secure CI/CD integration for enterprise applications and infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and operationalize the end-to-end agentic AI patching pipeline across SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, container, and server vulnerabilities.
  • •Use frontier AI models to discover novel vulnerabilities in production code, develop exploits, and validate AI-generated fixes.
  • •Build and maintain a library of reusable AI skills, prompts, evaluation harness, and tooling for agentic vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale.
  • •Design AI-driven false positive analysis and exemption processes to reduce manual triage and surface actionable findings to development teams.
  • •Conduct hands-on penetration testing and red team exercises to validate defensive controls and agent-generated remediations.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years hands-on experience across software engineering, offensive security, and defensive security at a principal engineer level, with demonstrated contributions to production codebases and vulnerability research or penetration testing engagements.
  • •Advanced technical proficiency in multiple programming languages (Java, C#, C, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, Go) with proven ability to write, review, and remediate production code.
  • •Deep fluency in vulnerability classes including memory safety, injection, authentication/authorization flaws, cryptographic misuse, deserialization, race conditions, and supply chain attacks, with hands-on exploitation experience.
  • •Extensive hands-on experience with penetration testing, red teaming, exploit development, reverse engineering, and secure code review against OWASP Top 10 and SANS 25, plus defensive engineering for detection/remediation.
  • •Extensive hands-on experience with application security testing tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA), including tuning, false positive analysis, exemption workflow design, and enterprise vulnerability management at scale.
Experience:10+ yearsCybersecurityApplication securityPenetration testingOffensive security
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingLeadership
Certifications:OSCPOSCEOSEPGWAPTCISSP
Tech Stack:JavaC#CC++PythonJavaScriptTypeScript.NETGoSASTDASTIASTSCADockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHubJenkinsClaudeCopilot

Company Brief

Synechron
Provides digital, technology, and consulting services to financial services and insurance firms, focusing on digital transformation, data & analytics, blockchain, and emerging technologies to drive business innovation and operational efficiency.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2001
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