Infrastructure Security Engineer (Secret + Clearance)

Cohere • Toronto, ON

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products. Join us on our mission and shape the future!

Requirements

• 5+ years of previous experience in Infrastructure security
• Proven experience with Protected B environment setup, configuration, and management
• Knowledge of Canadian government security standards and compliance requirements
• Have hands-on experience with Kubernetes in both development and production environments
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and configuration management
• Comfortable with ambiguity and are able to make informed decisions with little data
• Understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements, and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences
• Active Secret+ clearance strongly preferred; candidates eligible and willing to obtain clearance will also be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with AI/ML systems or LLM-based applications

Responsibilities

• Deploy, and manage infrastructure for Protected B classified environments, ensuring compliance with ITSG-33 and Canadian government standards
• Design and implement security controls for cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid/multi-cloud deployments
• Evaluate, implement, and manage security tools and technologies for training cluster and inference infrastructure hardening
• Implement security best practices including IAM, encryption, logging, and monitoring
• Participate in security incident response activities, including detection, analysis, containment, and remediation
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of infrastructure components
• Maintain comprehensive security documentation, procedures, and configurations for classified environments
• Maintain active Secret+ security clearance and adhere to all Canadian government security protocols

Benefits

• Full health and dental benefits
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
• Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
• Remote-flexible
• 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)

What This Job Offers

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