Senior Staff Security Engineer – Systems Engineering

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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ServiceNow is a platform that offers AI-powered solutions and automation for businesses to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Its AI agents are designed to autonomously learn, reason, make decisions, and take action to transform business processes across various domains such as IT, HR, customer service, and app development. The platform enables organizations to integrate data from diverse sources, facilitating business transformation and operational efficiency. Recognized for its leadership in AI IT service management and trusted by a significant portion of the Fortune 500, ServiceNow collaborates with other global leaders like Microsoft and AWS to bring advanced AI capabilities to modernize business operations.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior technical authority for security engineering in the Canada regulated environment • Engineer, harden, and operate security controls across on-premises, cloud, and isolated infrastructure • Build automation and infrastructure-as-code to streamline security engineering and operations, reporting, and remediation • Partner with infrastructure, application, and platform owners to drive remediation and track compliance against CIS and NIST baselines • Support security tooling across identity, vulnerability scanning, logging, and cloud security based on team priorities • Produce operational and executive-facing reporting on security posture and performance • Configure workflows, maintain user access and data integrity, support ITSM modules, and script ServiceNow solutions where applicable • Work across identity, vulnerability management, cloud and infrastructure security, security data platforms, and ServiceNow security operations

🎯 Requirements

• Canadian citizen or Canadian permanent resident • Live in Canada and perform all work from within Canada • Obtain and maintain Government of Canada Reliability Status • Five years of verifiable background history required for screening • 12+ years of hands-on security or systems engineering experience in large-scale enterprise environments • Expert Linux administration and troubleshooting across OS internals, host networking, storage, virtualization, and containers • Proficiency with DNS, NTP, and LDAP services • Proficiency in Python and Shell for production-grade automation and integrations • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management, including Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows • Expertise in network security fundamentals, including firewalls, segmentation, load balancers, and proxies • Experience hardening systems against CIS, STIG, or NIST baselines and translating requirements into technical controls • Experience using AI in professional work • Understanding of Canada Protected B classification and data residency requirements for Canadian government systems • Hands-on experience in at least two specialty areas: identity and access management, vulnerability management, public cloud security, security data platforms, infrastructure security, ServiceNow administration, or ServiceNow Security Operations • Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCSP, CISM, ServiceNow CSA, Tenable Certified Engineer, Cribl Admin, or a GCP security certification • Experience supporting highly regulated, isolated, or air-gapped government environments preferred • Strong understanding of ITIL and ITSM processes preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible or remote work persona • Employer-sponsored Government of Canada Reliability Status screening • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations during the application process

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