Security Engineer I (Application Security Engineer)

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Want to use your expertise to connect to an IT career with a difference? Join our team as a Security Engineer I and help shape the future of secure applications that protect millions of British Columbians. Your expertise will ensure safe workplaces and innovative digital solutions in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

In this role, you'll leverage your understanding and experience of application security engineering practices and vulnerabilities to provide guidance on application security design and development. You'll work closely with cross‑functional development and innovation teams to understand business goals, determine security requirements, design, and implement application and data security solutions. You'll be a key contributor to support the team's delivery and continuous improvement by assisting others with their work and being the champion of IT application security through your contribution to our security community of practice.

How you’ll make a difference

As a Security Engineer I at WorkSafeBC, you’ll be using leading‑edge technology to help connect British Columbians to healthy and safe workplaces.

Where you’ll work

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely and in our offices based on the operational needs of the position.

As an Application Security Engineer I you will

• Develop and maintain application secure coding standards, cloud security configurations and practices according to the industry best practices
• Perform design, development, integration and sustainment of security assessment tools (i.e. Burpsuite, Mend, SonarQube, etc.) to review applications built by development teams
• Review the product / application designs (including AI technologies) by performing threat modelling to identify and mitigate security threats
• Perform validation and tuning of security testing tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA (e.g. BurpSuite, SonarQube, Mend) to provide accurate and actionable results
• Work closely with senior security engineers to conduct security reviews of cloud technologies, software code (.Net, C#, Python, etc.), products and application code
• Conduct penetration testing of internal and external web applications to identify vulnerabilities
• Work on implementing security controls in the cloud platforms and services (i.e., Azure security policies, Microsoft Foundry security policies, etc.)
• Consistently model the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees : responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward‑thinking

We're looking for someone who can

Your experience and educational background

The following requirements are preferable but not mandatory

We’ll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must :

WorkSafeBC’s COVID‑19 employee mandatory vaccine policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023. We remain committed to protecting the health and safety of our employees and our communicable disease prevention program remains in effect.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work‑related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We serve 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

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Salary

$41.59 – $52.35  / hourly

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