Job Description

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.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings
• Education assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
• Our values:
• Protect what matters
• Do it right
• Make it better
• Do it together
• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
• Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
• Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
• Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.
• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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