New Value Solutions, a national IT consulting company, is seeking a Senior Cloud and AI Security Engineer to join our DevSecOps team. This position plays a critical role in securing cutting-edge AI and cloud-based application projects. The successful candidate will collaborate with enterprise development, operations, and security teams to identify and mitigate security risks, define cloud security policies, and drive GenAI security strategy across Azure environments. This is a hands-on opportunity to influence and evolve the security engineering program while mentoring junior team members and developing automated tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with architecture, application, security, and operational teams to identify security patterns, requirements and drive security on AI and Cloud application projects.
• Research new security threats for GenAI systems and mechanisms for defending against such threats, to continuously improve security guidance and solutions.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers and application developers to build automated tooling and solutions that support teams throughout their software development journey.
• Define security controls for implementation of platforms using AI/ML using a combination of Cloud-native and On-Premises Security tools and applications.
• Conduct security reviews and recommendations for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Cloud environments, cloud applications, and AI solutions.
• Develop Cloud Security requirements and policies for IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS environments built using Terraform.
• Design and implement security controls and policies with Microsoft Defender Suite, Microsoft Security Center, and equivalent security tools for Cloud applications.
• Document security guardrails for AI and cloud application security and build the knowledge within the team of security engineers.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
• 8+ years of work experience in progressively complex roles focused on information security and secure application development.
• 1+ years of experience in securing GenAI solutions.
• Proven experience developing and implementing cloud security policies and tooling, particularly in Azure environments.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and related threat vectors.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in Application Security, API security, and GenAI/LLM security.
• Experience in automation of security controls for Azure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Programming expertise with C#, Python, and Agile SDLC processes.
• In depth experience with threat modeling, secure code reviews, and penetration testing.
• Experience architecting and leading security for Cloud native applications in Azure.
• Demonstrated expertise in product/application security architecture, network security, application security, web services, Angular, JavaScript.
• Experience in defining and documenting security reference architectures, policies and standards.

If you have this expertise, and are able to work in Canada, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted.

ID# 4725

The hourly rate range for this position is $90 - $120, with the final rate based on consultant experience and fit for the role.