Security Jobs in Canada
There are 1,229 open Security jobs in Canada on freehire right now. 332 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, ai and cybersecurity.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAD | year | CA$119,288 | CA$147,925 | CA$179,128 | 128 |
| USD | year | $160,000 | $183,500 | $203,000 | 33 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 41%
- ai 39%
- cybersecurity 30%
- automation 24%
- python 18%
- azure 18%
- aws 18%
- cloud-security 16%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 195 · 16%
- Remote 161 · 13%
- Onsite 128 · 10%
Visa sponsorship offered in 48% of the 185 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 295
- Lead 67
- Staff 33
- Principal 24
- Intern 16
- C-level 14
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 284
- 501-1000 employees 127
- 51-200 employees 18
- 201-500 employees 7
- 11-50 employees 6
Amazon Sales Leader, National Security and Defence, Public Sector Canada
Leads AWS’s National Security and Defence sales in Canada, building teams and strategies to modernize government cloud adoption and close large public-sector deals.
Senior Account Executive - Cybersecurity (Canada)/ Cadre senior aux ventes – Cybersécurité (Canada)
Sell cybersecurity services (SOC, advisory, and technical solutions) to Canadian customers, engaging executives and prospects with demos and consultative sales.
Practice Lead - Security
Lead the creation of a new cybersecurity practice for mid-market Canadian firms, embedding security into Azure, AI, and agentic-AI transformations while advising CIOs/CISOs on governance, risk, and cloud-native defenses.
Senior Advisor, AI Governance & Security Strategy
Define and implement AI governance and security strategy for a provincial energy regulator, setting policies for safe AI use across vendors like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google.
Domain Consultant - IAM/IGA Solutions
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Cybersecurity Analyst
Build and operationalize enterprise security programs, including cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management, and incident response, to protect Article’s hybrid infrastructure and data.
Senior Application Security Engineer
Senior Application Security Engineer secures vCluster’s Go-based Kubernetes platform and controllers, performing threat modeling, automating security checks, and managing vulnerabilities to protect multi-tenant AI workloads.
Hardware Penetration Tester
You perform hands-on hardware penetration tests on embedded/IoT devices, extracting firmware via debug ports or chip-off, analyzing buses, and exploiting physical attack surfaces to uncover silicon-level vulnerabilities.
Amazon Software Development Manager, AWS IAM
Lead a team building secure, scalable propagation services for AWS IAM’s next-generation control plane, ensuring global authentication and authorization for billions of requests per second.
Amazon Senior Solutions Architect, National Security & Defence
Senior Solutions Architect designing cloud solutions for Canadian National Security & Defence customers, partnering with sales to modernize mission-critical systems using AWS technologies.
Cybersecurity Incident Management Specialist, Forensic Analysis
Lead cybersecurity incident response for Ubisoft’s global gaming infrastructure, performing forensic analysis on breaches and coordinating cross-team investigations using tools like Velociraptor and Splunk.
Physical Security Specialist
Assess and strengthen physical security for government facilities by conducting audits, risk analyses, and policy development using standards like Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.
Industrial Security Consultant
Advises on and designs physical security systems for high-security facilities, ensuring compliance with Canadian government security standards and conducting risk assessments for construction and defense projects.
Security Analyst
Monitor and respond to security alerts, investigate incidents, and manage vulnerabilities across endpoints and networks for a game studio.
Akamai Security Architect (Remote)
Design and deploy Akamai’s security stack (CDN, WAF, API Security, Bot Management) for global customers, automate with Terraform/Python, and troubleshoot with Burp Suite and Postman.
Solution Engineering Sales Manager - Security
Leads a team of cybersecurity solution engineers to advise enterprise customers, design secure architectures, and drive technical wins for Microsoft’s security portfolio.
Director, Offensive Security
Leads Varicent’s offensive security program, conducting penetration testing, red teaming, and AI security validation to reduce risk across SaaS, cloud, and AI-enabled products.