Security engineer Jobs in Ottawa, ON

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike enabling the coordination thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de lentreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nos technologies de communication de sécurité vidéo et de centre de commandement essentielles soutiennent les agences de sécurité publique et les entreprises permettant une coordination essentielle pour des communautés des écoles des hôpitaux et des entreprises plus sécuritaires. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

The Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analysing software designs and implementations from a security perspective identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Job Description

Responsibilities

Security Design and Implementation

Perform threat modeling risk assessments and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.

Support the engineering teams on definition on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.

Perform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.

Act as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters.

Security Testing

Define and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.

Define and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Secret Detection scanning tools.

Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure embedded / OS or mobile are desirable.

Write custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken / missing security controls.

Recommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes and propose new ones.

Vulnerability Management

Periodically triage the findings from the automated security scanning tools.

Validate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.

Assess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.

Communicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.

SDLC and DevSecOps Integration

Establish and maintain secure coding standards baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.

Assist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation.

Implement automated security controls as part of CI / CD pipelines.

Incident Response and Compliance

Support product security incident response processes including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components data and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.

Define clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.

Conduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned and measures to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring and refine response strategies.

Monitor emerging security threats vulnerabilities and trends to proactively investigate remediate and integrate new protections.

Ensure products comply with relevant security standards certifications and regulations (e.g. OWASP NIST).

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security or related field; Masters degree preferred.

5 years of experience in Security Engineering with expertise in product and application security.

In-depth knowledge of Linux Docker Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

Familiarity with authentication technologies cryptography and security protocols (e.g. TLS).

Strong software development skills with experience in Go Python JavaScript C / C and Bash.

Understanding of web-related protocols (HTTP REST APIs) networking protocols (TCP / IP) and security frameworks (OWASP NIST).

Experience with security tools like SAST DAST IAST and SCA and secure CI / CD pipeline implementation.

Knowledge of threat modeling vulnerability remediation and emerging threats.

Desirable qualifications include exploit development familiarity with AI / ML security considerations and certifications like OSCP CISSP or CCSP.

Exceptional analytical investigative and communication skills with ability to advise technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Qualifications

Familiarity with security considerations for AI / ML systems is desirable.

Understanding of distributed systems design implementation and operation.

Understanding of privacy threats and controls including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.

Exploit development experience and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types and the maximum impact achievable.

Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g. Splunk OSQuery ).

Masters degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Security certifications are a plus including OSCP OSEE SANS / GIAC CCSP and CISSP.

Excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to design document and implement new security processes.

Experience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.

Ability to remain calm under pressure especially during incidents or audits.

Target Base Salary Range : $95000 - $110000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

Bachelors Degree with 4 years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and / or application security.

2 years of experience in performing threat modeling

2 years of experience with security tools such as SAST DAST IAST and / or SCA.

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,AWS,Data Structures,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 95000 - 110000