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Senior Ethical HackerStantec · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Senior Ethical Hacker

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-25 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary 8,783 CAD–13,175 CAD/mo (105,400 CAD–158,100 CAD/yr) 📊 Market 8,783 CAD–13,175 CAD/mo

About the Company

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.

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

  • ● 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.
  • ● 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.
  • ● 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.

Requirements

  • ● 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.