Senior Purple Team Engineer

Join KOHO, a leading Canadian fintech company, as a Senior Purple Team Engineer. In this remote role, you will be responsible for building the company's deception engineering program, conducting incident response readiness, and leading incident response during cybersecurity incidents. You will also design and deploy internal and external deception assets, generate actionable threat intelligence, and integrate deception-triggered alerts into existing SOC operations. Enjoy benefits such as stock options, generous PTO, and a $2000 annual training allowance.

• Own and lead incident response readiness across KOHO, conducting regular tabletop exercises and playbook reviews.
• Plan and execute adversarial simulations, conducting offensive operations, and delivering findings that drive measurable security improvements.
• Design and deploy internal deception assets to detect lateral movement, insider threats, and unauthorized access across KOHO's environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, technology management, or related technical or management field
• You are a self-starter who can build programs from the ground up and build operations
• Hands-on experience planning and executing adversarial simulations, including scoping engagements, defining rules of engagement, and delivering post-engagement reporting
• Experience operating offensive security tooling and techniques to emulate real-world threat actor behaviour
• Strong knowledge in MITRE ATT&CK and cyber kill chain
• Hands on experience and working understanding of AWS
• Experience designing and deploying deception programs covering both internal detection assets and external-facing deception infrastructure