Director, Security & Infrastructure
Workleap
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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About the role
- Improve platform reliability and scalability so product teams can ship with confidence across Workleap and ShareGate;
- Reduce security and compliance risk through guardrails embedded directly into delivery workflows;
- Increase engineering autonomy by reducing dependency on centralized infrastructure support;
- Increase system resilience and minimize service disruption through stronger observability, incident response, and proactive capacity planning;
- Elevate team impact and organizational leverage by building a high-performing infrastructure and security function;
- Improve executive decision-making with clear, business-relevant visibility into security, compliance, and risk posture.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience across infrastructure and security leadership in technology organizations;
- Experience leading technical teams through transformation in fast-paced, evolving organizations;
- Strong expertise in cloud-native environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP;
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and platform automation;
- Deep understanding of security frameworks, such as SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls;
- Proven ability to build secure, scalable, high-availability environments for SaaS products;
- Strong ability to communicate risk, priorities, and tradeoffs to executive and board-level stakeholders;
- CISSP, CISM, or equivalent credentials are considered an asset;
- Based in Montreal, or able to travel there a few times per quarter.
Benefits
- We strive to create a healthy and inclusive work environment. This is everyone’s business.
- At Workleap, we build together, we trust each other, and we support each other in success or failure. You will be able to express yourself, evolve and develop your creativity in an environment that will adapt to your daily life and your needs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native environmentsKubernetesinfrastructure as codeplatform automationsecurity frameworksSOC 2NIST CSFISO 27001CIS Controlshigh-availability environments
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationrisk managementprioritizationstakeholder engagementteam buildingorganizational leveragedecision-makingincident responsecapacity planning
Certifications
CISSPCISM