Synechron

Synechron

Principal Consultant - Cybersecurity & Agentic AI

Toronto, ON · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++C#.NETCode ReviewGitDockerKubernetesCI/CDJenkinsDevOpsData ScienceAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCybersecurityPenetration TestingComplianceSupply ChainTest AutomationResearchMentoring

About the role

  • Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams.
  • With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 16,850+, and has 60 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.
  • Additional Information* The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors.

Responsibilities

  • Use frontier AI models to discover novel vulnerabilities in production application and infrastructure code, develop proof-of-concept exploits, and validate that AI-generated fixes close the underlying root cause.
  • Build and maintain the library of reusable AI skills, prompts, evaluation harness, and tooling that power agentic vulnerability discovery, triage, remediation, false positive analysis, and exemption workflows at scale.
  • Design and operationalize AI-driven false positive analysis and exemption processes to reduce manual triage burden and surface only actionable findings to development teams.
  • Conduct hands-on penetration testing and red team exercise against critical applications and infrastructure to validate defensive controls and agent-generated remediations.
  • Design agent prompting, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and appropriate human-in-the-loop controls to ensure safe autonomous code changes, testing, and deployment.
  • Drive integration of agentic remediation into enterprise CI/CD pipelines (Github, Jenkins, etc.) across the deployment landscape.
  • Communicate technical design, risk trade-offs, and delivery progress clearly to senior stakeholders including CIO, CISO, 2LOD, and Audit functions.
  • Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions.
  • Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more.
  • As "Principal Consultant, Agentic AI Cybersecurity Engineer" Candidate will work hands-on alongside our cybersecurity engineering and application security teams to build, operate, and advance the agentic AI systems that find, exploit, and remediate vulnerabilities end-to-end across our application and infrastructure estate.

Requirements

  • Advanced technical proficiency in multiple programming language (Java, C#, C, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript,.NET, Go) with proven ability to personally write, review, and remediate production code.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with application security testing tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA), including tuning, false positive analysis, exemption workflow design, and enterprise vulnerability management at scale.
  • Strong architectural knowledge of modern CI.CD, container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud-native deployment patterns, and integration of security automation into developer workflows.
  • Public evidence of offensive capability: published CVEs, bug bounty track record, conference talks (DEFCON, Black Hat, Offensive Con, Recon), CTF placements, or open-source security tooling contributions.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise vulnerability tooling (Tenable, Aqua, Snyk, BrightSec) and remediation at scale.

Nice to have

  • Relevant security certifications (OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, GXPN, GWAPT, CISSP, or equivalent).
  • Experience in financial services or highly regulated industries with exposure to SOX, SOC1, and regulatory audit.
  • Preferred, but not required:

Compensation

  • With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 16,850+, and has 60 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.
  • The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors.
  • In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Toronto, ON is CAD $130k - CAD $140k/year & benefits (see below).

Benefits

  • 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave (floating days and sick days).
  • A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability.
  • A higher education certification policy.
  • Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all.
  • We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
  • Extend agentic remediation coverage across SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, container, and server vulnerabilities, including the data and tooling needed to connect findings back to source.
  • Flexible hybrid policy.

Company info

  • Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
  • We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company.
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