Director, Security & Infrastructure

Workleap - en • Montreal, QC

58d • Remote

About The Position

As Director, Security & Infrastructure, your role is to create the conditions for product and engineering teams to move faster with confidence. You will lead the infrastructure, security operations, and governance, risk, and compliance functions across Workleap and ShareGate, ensuring our environment remains reliable, scalable, and secure as the organization evolves. You will play a key role in supporting Workleap’s shift toward a Full-Stack Builder model, where small teams own the full journey from insight to production. This means building a platform and security foundation that reduces friction, strengthens trust, and helps teams ship quickly without compromising reliability, security, or compliance.

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;
• Based in Montreal, or able to travel there a few times per quarter.

Nice To Haves

• CISSP, CISM, or equivalent credentials are considered an asset

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed