RQ08707 - Security Specialist - Senior

Rubicon Path; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Toronto is seeking a Senior Security Specialist to develop and support OPS Secure environments. The role requires over 10 years of experience in identity and access management systems, particularly with Oracle technologies. Candidates should have a strong background in IT security and the ability to support clients with integration efforts. This position offers a chance to work on critical systems in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience sustaining COTS based identity and access management systems.
• At least 4 years experience related to Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus.
• Working knowledge of IT Security Technologies, especially encryption and authentication technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of OPS Secure environments.
• Provide on-call support for OPS Secure production environments.
• Support clients for integration with applications using OPS Secure.

Skills

COTS based identity and access management systems

Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus

Nagios

IT Security Technologies

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle database 11g

Automated testing tools

Job description

About the job RQ08707 - Security Specialist - Senior

Description

Role: Senior Security Specialists

1. Support the development, UAT and Production of OPS Secure environments, including:

• Monitoring the health, performance, and status of service components (e.g., technology stack).
• Starting and stopping service components.
• Backing up or recovering service components (e.g., associated data or configurations).
• Maintaining service components (e.g., applying patches, renewing certificates, or licenses).
• Triaging, analysing, and resolving incidents.
• Identifying, analysing, and resolving problems related to OPS and BPS Secure.
• Assessing the impacts of changes on OPS Secure, including changes raised by clients and service providers (e.g., ITS, CompuCom, Telus).
• Documenting maintenance and support requirements and procedures.

2. Provide on-call support for the OPS Secure production and production verification environments 24x7.

• Participate in incident management activities as an incident analyst, or tier-2/tier-3 SME.
• Participate in change management as a change assessor, change analyst or application SME.

3. Support clients across the OPS and BPS to support integrations with their applications using OPS Secure and BPS Secure for identity and access management by:

• Analyzing client technical requirements, designing approaches/solutions.
• Describing patterns related to integration approaches/solutions.
• Developing processes and plans that support the application of patterns.
• Constructing, testing, and deploying solutions.
• Analyzing and resolving problems encountered during integration.
• Developing utilities, scripts, applets, and reports to facilitate and automate the integration experience.
• Documenting approaches/solutions.

4. Improve the support posture of the OPS Secure team by:

• Developing requirements for support tools.
• Evaluating and recommending tools.
• Installing and configuring tools.
• Developing, testing, and deploying programmatic constructs (e.g., scripts, queries, views, reports, procedures or other).
• Documenting maintenance and support requirements and procedures.

5. Foster a team culture of excellence and innovation, including:

• Developing or informing the development of role descriptions for the sustainment of OPS Secure, especially related to the technical support function.
• Developing plans for the knowledge and skills transfer to OPS employees, including activities or tests to demonstrate the successful transfer of knowledge and attainment of required skills. OPS employees include IT Source People Placement Service resources.
• Developing plans for the transition of sustainment functions to OPS employees.
• Transferring knowledge to OPS employees.

SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

1. Sustainment of Large Identity Systems 40%

• 10+ years experience sustaining (e.g., administration, operations, support, patching, monitoring, starting/ stopping) COTS based identity and access management systems.
• At least 4 years experience must be related to Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus.
• At least 4 years experience must be related to implementations with over 10,000 registered users.
• 3+ years experience with the Oracle unified Methodology (OUM) for COTS implementations.
• 2+ years of experience with Nagios and other system monitoring tools (e.g., Big Brother).
• Working Knowledge and understanding of IT Security Technologies, particularly encryption and authentication technologies such as PKI, PMI and SSL.

2. Sustainment of Large Application Implementations 30%

• 10+ years experience designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products: Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, OHS, Tomcat, Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), IBM HTTP Server, Apache, IBM WebSphere, Oracle database 11g (and later), Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition, Solaris, Windows, AIX, and Linux.
• Experience with ITIL processes such as Service Level Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Capacity Management.

3. Incident and Problem Management 20%

• 10+ years experience triaging, analysing, diagnosing (i.e., troubleshooting), evaluating options, and resolving application problems, especially those related to identity and access management systems and the above technologies.
• Experience with decision making processes.

4. Quality Assurance 10%

• 10+ years experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of applications with over 10,000 users.
• Experience with Change Management and Release Management as processes supporting the implementation of large applications.
• Experience with automated testing tools, such as Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• 3+ years experience with the Oracle Unified Methodology (OUM) for COTS implementations or its predecessors (e.g., Oracle Application Implementation Methodology (AIM)) or equivalents.

Must Haves:

• 10+ years experience sustaining (e.g., administration, operations, support, patching, monitoring, starting/ stopping) COTS based identity and access management systems.
• At least 4 years experience must be related to Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus.
• Working Knowledge and understanding of IT Security Technologies, particularly encryption and authentication technologies such as PKI, PMI and SSL.
• 10+ years experience designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products: Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, OHS, Tomcat, Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), IBM HTTP Server, Apache, IBM WebSphere, Oracle database 11g (and later), Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition, Solaris, Windows, AIX, and Linux.