Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 11/23/2026
About this opportunity:Reporting to the Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operation, the Senior Cyber Security AI Advisor is responsible for protecting the organization's rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence, cloud, on-prem and application development environments. The role combines deep technical cybersecurity expertise with the ability to embed a strong security culture across technology and business teams, enabling the organization to adopt AI and cloud capabilities securely while managing cyber, data, privacy, and operational risk.
The role provides cybersecurity expertise throughout the AI and software development lifecycle, ensuring that Large Language Model (LLM) applications, conversational Chat UIs, AI agents, APIs, data integrations, custom applications, and supporting cloud services are securely designed, developed, deployed, and operated. This includes identifying and mitigating emerging risks associated with AI models and agents, prompt injection, excessive agency, insecure output handling, sensitive data exposure, identity and access, model and application vulnerabilities, third-party integrations, and cloud configuration.
The position is in office 5 days a week.
What you'll do:- Work closely with AI developers, software engineering teams, cloud engineering, enterprise architecture, data teams, and business stakeholders to embed security into pro-code development, Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Apps, custom Chat UI development, and LLM-based applications.
- Act as the SME for Microsoft Azure cloud security, application security, identity and access management, AI security, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
- Provide cybersecurity expertise and technical guidance for enterprise AI, generative AI, LLM, agentic AI, and conversational AI solutions.
- Perform security assessments across the complete AI application lifecycle, from architecture and development through testing, deployment, and production operation.
- Assess the security of LLM-based applications, AI agents, Chat UIs, APIs, plugins/tools, data sources, retrieval systems, and application integrations.
Who you are:Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Cyber security and programming.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant.
- Strong understanding of AI and Large Language Model security, including securing LLM applications, AI agents, conversational interfaces, prompts, models, APIs, and data integrations.
- Knowledge of AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, insecure output handling, excessive agency, sensitive data exposure, model abuse, and supply-chain risks.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including cloud architecture, networking, identity, data protection, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
- Experience securing Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and related Microsoft cloud and AI technologies.
- Understanding of cloud-native security architecture and secure configuration practices.
- Experience with the below, considered an asset:
- Azure, Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Enterprise
- Copilot Studio, Power Apps
- LLM architecture
- AI Agents, MCP, APIs
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- Threat Modelling, incident response,
- SSDLC, DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline development
- Cloud Security
- NIST CSF
- PowerShell, Python, Git
- Infrastructure as Code.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT November 22, 2026.If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email [redacted].
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