Principal Security Architect

Job Summary

Kinross Gold is seeking a Principal Security Architect to lead the design and continuous evolution of our incident response and cyber defense architecture. This is a senior, hands‑on‑yet‑strategic role: you will set the technical direction for how Kinross detects, contains, and recovers from threats across a global, hybrid environment spanning corporate IT, cloud, and operating mine sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end architecture of the incident response capability — detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑incident review — across IT, cloud, and OT environments.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve playbooks, escalation paths, and response automation (SOAR / agentic workflows), ensuring human oversight at decision points that carry material risk.
• Lead major and complex security incidents, providing senior technical authority and adversarial perspective when a...