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Senior Ethical Hacker

Stantec

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Senior Ethical Hacker

Stantec

Winnipeg, Manitoba
 
Salary: Information not available
 
At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day. Your Opportunity The Senior Ethical Hacker will conduct security assessments on web applications and cloud services by emulating real-world attacks using the Mitre Attack Framework. Their goal is to identify security weaknesses, help prevent data breaches and enhance the security posture by uncovering vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and risks proactively before they are discovered by threat actors. Your Key Responsibilities Communication - Collaborate with cross-functional teams (security, engineering, cloud and network operations). - Create reports and communicate findings to various technical teams, architects and engineers. - Create and communicate processes that could help engineering teams meet remediation goals. - Create and verbally present your test findings in debrief meetings with the C-Suite or sponsors. Cloud Application - Conduct penetration tests on cloud systems, applications and APIs to identify vulnerabilities. - Assess cloud/application specific configurations, access controls, and encryption mechanisms. - Validate and exploit security findings within web/thick client apps and cloud environments. - Validate various app services, databases, Kubernetes, serverless functions, container instances, - images and cloud storage blob/buckets for security issues. Project work/Knowledge Share - Assist/Create rules of engagement for new pen test projects. - Architect automated workflows for independent security evaluation and assurance processes - Establish and enforce security baseline controls through Policy-as-Code implementations - Engineer custom Python, Terraform, and Ansible extensions to enable specialized security and - infrastructure use cases - Create or populate content in the internal training lab so developers and security champions can stay - current in offensive security with practical CTF's when time permits. - Provide live hacking webinars for teams interested in learning by example. - Conduct internal Red Team engagements. - Participate in purple team engagements. Your Capabilities and Credentials - Minimum 5-7+ years working in some aspect of cybersecurity (Offensive Security, Red Team - experience preferred). - Proficient with manual web/cloud penetration testing without using any tools. - Proficient writing custom attack tools in Python, PHP, Golang and Bash Scripting. - Proficient with interception proxies and attacking manually via Burp Suite Enterprise tool. - Proficient building/maintaining attack automation systems (Commercial or Open-Source). - Proficient building containers and automation pipelines for attacking purposes. - Experience combining multiple low/medium findings to weaponize and achieve a higher level. - Comfortable working exclusively from Windows or Linux command line. - Comfortable "living off the land" using VIM/VI/Bash/SH/Perl/VBScript/WMI/PowerShell for post - exploitation and lateral movement. - Comfortable with writing XSS attacks, System/SQL injection payloads or weaponizing binaries. - Comfortable attacking various popular public cloud services in (Azure/AWS/GCP/Oracle). - Comfortable presenting audit findings to a small group or C-Suite during debrief meetings. - Comfortable taking ownership for testing actions and performing blameless post-mortems. Preference for the following additional Skills/Certifications - OffSec Web Expert (OSWE) - Preferred - OffSec (OSAI) - Preferred - GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT) - Burp Suite Certified Practitioner (BSCP) - Pentester Academy Cloud Security Professional (PACSP) - AI/LLM Penetration testing experience - Acknowledged findings in a responsible disclosure or public, private Bug Bounty program. - Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) - Terraform Associate (003) - DevSecOps experience Education and Experience - Minimum 5 years relevant experience. - Related Degree or Certificate, preferably in areas of Offensive Security, AI Red Teaming or Application - Security **Pay Range:** • Locations Outside of Lower Mainland - BC & Various locations in Ontario-$105,400.00 - $158,100.00 Annually • Locations in Lower Mainland -- BC, GTA & Ottawa Ontario-$114,600.00 - $164,600.00 Annually **Pay Transparency:** In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week. **Benefits Summary:** Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off. Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements. **Primary Location:** Canada | ON | Toronto **Other Locations:** Canada | MB | Winnipeg **Organization:** BC-1374 IT Services-CA Corporate **Employee Status:** Regular **Business Justification:** Replacement **Travel:** No **Schedule:** Full time **Job Posting:** 19/08/2026 12:08:45 **Req ID:** 1007230 \#additional

  

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Jason Cain

Jason.Cain@stantec.com

 

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About Stantec

Communities are fundamental. Whether around the corner or across the globe, they provide a foundation, a sense of place and of belonging. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.

 We care about the communities we serve—because they're our communities too. This allows us to assess what's needed and connect our expertise, to appreciate nuances and envision what's never been considered, to bring together diverse perspectives so we can collaborate toward a shared success.

At Stantec, we pride ourselves on our commitment to building communities. As an extension of that commitment, we believe that our nation is our community—and Veterans and their families are an important part of that community. We are committed to welcoming members of the Veteran’s and military communities into our workforce, and we are dedicated to growing our work for defense communities in Canada, the US, and abroad.

We're designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

We believe in the long-term success of military-connected individuals, and we hope you will join us in your next career move.