Our client, a well-known brand and a well-established organization, has an immediate opening for an Information Systems Security Engineer to join their team in Vancouver.

As a Security Engineer, you'll bring your hands-on expertise to collaborate across IT and business teams, ensuring technology environment remains secure, resilient, and aligned with organization's goals. You'll be a key resource for complex security challenges and play a vital role in protecting the organization from evolving cyber threats.

Who you are:

• An experienced security professional with strong technical skills and a passion for safeguarding systems. You thrive on problem-solving, innovation, and working collaboratively with others.
• An effective communicator who can explain technical security concepts clearly and respectfully to diverse audiences and teams.
• Proactive and detail oriented. You take initiative to identify risks, design inclusive solutions, and improve security practices with empathy and accessibility in mind.
• Calm under pressure with excellent analytical skills - you approach incidents, escalations, and investigations thoughtfully and with care.

During a typical day, you will:

• Collaborate closely and respectfully with infrastructure, development, and business teams to provide security guidance and hands-on support.
• Lead security reviews and design robust security controls across networks, applications, and cloud environments.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain security tools such as SIEM, EDR, firewalls, and cloud security platforms.
• Research and assess emerging security technologies to enhance organization's security posture.
• Audit and strengthen security configurations on cloud, endpoints, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Administer data loss prevention (DLP) policies and support inclusive identity and access management initiatives.
• Oversee SIEM operations including log onboarding, parsing, and use case development.
• Lead incident response activities with collaboration, perform forensic analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Support compliance efforts related to PCI, ISO27001, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Monitor firewall, router, switch, and security appliance configurations and events.
• Review and approve security change requests to ensure safe and effective implementations.

What you bring:

• 7+ years in a Security role, with at least 2 years in security engineering.
• Relevant education such as CISSP certification, undergraduate degree in Computer Science, or equivalent diplomas/certifications.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, and enterprise security tools including Firewalls, SIEM, MDM, and solutions.
• Familiarity with Agile development environments and experience collaborating with diverse development teams.
• Excellent communication skills-both written and verbal-with the ability to explain complex security topics in an accessible way.
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a way that respects different perspectives.
• Proactive approach with strong troubleshooting, analytical, and organizational skills.
• A collaborative mindset that prioritizes doing the right thing and embraces continuous learning and inclusion.