Cybersecurity Engineer, Entry Level (Canada) Full Time NEW

Jobright is your personal AI job search agent that transforms the way you do job search from solo, time-consuming efforts to a fast, expert-guided journey, simplifying every job search step and accelerating your route to the best job outcomes. They are seeking an entry-level Cybersecurity Engineer to monitor security incidents, perform vulnerability assessments, and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance security measures.

Why Join Us

• Build real, production AI agents used by real users

• High ownership and impact

• Work at the intersection of AI, agents, and product

• Shape how people experience AI-driven job search

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, and respond to security incidents across cloud and application environments, from initial detection through root cause analysis and remediation

• Perform regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests to identify weaknesses before they become exploitable threats

• Build and maintain security automation scripts and playbooks that reduce manual toil and accelerate incident response times

• Collaborate with engineering teams to conduct threat modeling and embed security controls into the CI/CD pipeline and application architecture

• Stay current with emerging threats, CVEs, and attack techniques, and translate findings into actionable hardening recommendations

Qualification

Required

• Recent graduate or entry-level professional (0–2 years of experience) with a degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field

• Strong proficiency in Python or Bash, with the ability to write scripts for security automation, log parsing, and threat analysis

• Solid understanding of network protocols, common attack vectors (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK), and how vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited in practice

• A security-first mindset with the discipline to think adversarially and the communication skills to explain risks clearly to non-security stakeholders

Preferred

• Previous internship or personal project experience in penetration testing, CTF competitions, bug bounty programs, or security operations

• Hands-on familiarity with tools like Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, or cloud-native security services (AWS GuardDuty, GCP Security Command Center)

• Experience working with SIEM platforms and writing detection rules or correlation logic for real-world threat scenarios

• Interest in application security and a willingness to dig into codebases to find and fix security flaws at the source