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Senior Security Specialist - Cloud Red Team(Global Security)

@ Royal Bank of Canada

Toronto, Ontario

Full-time3+ years experience
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Overview

Royal Bank of Canada is hiring a Senior Security Specialist for its Cloud Red Team in Toronto, a full-time salaried role of 37.5 hours per week. The work involves offensive security testing of public cloud environments on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, plus partnering with defensive teams. The posting offers a hybrid-remote arrangement.

Responsibilities:

  • Assess and improve security of AWS, Azure and GCP environments
  • Execute red and purple team exercises in production
  • Develop offensive tradecraft and tooling
  • Partner with defensive and operations teams
  • Communicate security incidents and trends to stakeholders

Requirements summary:

  • Scripting and automation via cloud APIs or CLIs
  • Strong experience managing and building on AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Understanding of DevOps and cloud-centric architectures
  • Intermediate experience with IaC and CI/CD tools
  • Strong Linux and Windows technical understanding
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

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Employer posting date
2026-10-22
First seen by our source
2026-10-08
Source record updated
2026-11-04

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentSoftware development
Hours per week37.5
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Perks mentionedFlexible hours, Performance bonus, Stock or equity, Paid training

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Royal Bank of Canada

Stock listing: TSX:RY · NYSE:RY · Source checked: 2026-11-02

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Full company description

Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact. http://rbc.com/legalstuff. La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social. https://www.rbc.com/conditions-dutilisation/

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Reported office locations
  • 200 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5, CA
  • 1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal, QC H3B 1Z3, CA
  • 2 Park St, Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
  • 100 Bishopsgate, London, England EC2N 4AA, GB
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Business categories
  • Wealth Management
  • Commercial Lending
  • Finance
  • Banking
  • Payments
  • Asset Management
  • Insurance
  • Lending
  • Financial Services
  • Financial Exchanges
Other recorded names
  • Royal Bank of Canada
  • RBC
Specialties
  • finance
  • banking
  • investing
  • insurance
  • financial planning
  • wealth management
  • and capital markets
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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market…

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IndustryBanking
Company size10,001+ employees
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Organization typePublic Company
Specialtiesfinancebankinginvestinginsurancefinancial planningwealth managementand capital markets
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Job description

Job Description

What will you do?

  • Work as part of the team assessing and improving the security of our public cloud environments (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform).

  • Participate in hands-on execution of Red and Purple Team Exercises in mature production environments.

  • Assist in developing, evolving, and refining our offensive tradecraft and tooling.

  • Forge partnerships with defensive teams such as Cloud Security, Cloud Operations, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, SOC / IR, and our ATO ML/AI analytics team to drive pragmatic cyber security improvement.

  • Effectively liaise and communicate with the cloud operations group, internal customers, security operations center, key business stakeholders and management regarding information security incident events and trends.

Must Haves

  • Experience in scripting/automating operations via various cloud APIs or CLIs.

  • A good understanding of modern, cloud centric architectures and DevOps principles.

  • Strong experience managing cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

  • Strong experience building systems and/or platforms using Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

  • Intermediate experience working with orchestration and configuration management systems such as Ansible or Puppet, and infrastructure-as-code systems such as CloudFormation or Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.

  • A background in PaaS/SaaS environment practices, including: maintaining SLAs, load-balancing, high availability, operating system patching, networking, and security management/patching

  • Strong technical understanding in a variety of hardware and software platforms (Linux & Windows)

  • The ability to communicate complicated technical concepts or attack paths which compromise our operations in a form that is easily digestible by a broader audience who may not be technical

Nice-to-Have

  • Certifications in information security, AWS, Azure or GCP.

  • Experience with running Kubernetes environments and understanding of multi-tenancy and security implications.

  • 3+ years of Cyber Security experience with background executing network / application layer penetration tests.

  • Ability to analyze complex security and vulnerability events.

  • Above average performance. You are competitive and passionate. You thrive on challenge and have a proven ability to set ambitious but achievable goals and surpass them

  • A team player. At RBC we work together. You will be the type of person that brings that approach to your work. You will have a proven ability to build, grow, and maintain relationships both internally and externally.

What’s in it for you?

At a team level, you will have exposure to operating in complex and critical environments that power our economy. You will work with talented and driven offensive security experts; refining and expanding your skillset. You will be given the opportunity to attend industry-leading public and private training sessions to take your skills to the next level.

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.

  • Dedicated budget for annual training and conference attendance

  • Leaders who support your development through coaching, training, and managing opportunities.

  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

  • Flexible work/life balance options including a hybrid-remote working environment.

  • Opportunities to do challenging work.

  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

  • Opportunities to build close relationships with various cyber security teams.

Job Skills

Confidentiality, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Encryption Software, Group Problem Solving, High Impact Communication, Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Strategic Thinking

Additional Job Details

Address:

16 YORK ST:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-09-06

Application Deadline:

2026-11-13

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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