Security Consultant II

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agri-tech company in Canada is seeking an experienced cybersecurity professional to enhance security measures. The role involves performing risk analysis, contributing to security guidelines, and collaborating with various teams. A minimum of 5 years of experience along with strong analytical skills and knowledge of cloud security practices is required. This position promotes an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with 2+ years in information security.
• In-depth knowledge of security standards like NIST CSF and OWASP.
• Experience in system deployment methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security reviews, evaluations, and risk assessments.
• Work closely with TAC teams to enhance security posture.
• Educate peer groups on security best practices.

Skills

Risk analysis

Collaborative communication

Cloud security best practices

Analytical skills

Identity and access management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Overview

Be a part of a transformational journey with innovative talent and leading-edge technologies.

Join our team and what we’ll accomplish together

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods (TAC) is a great place to work. You can see it in our team members. The diversity of the team and their unique contributions set us apart from the competition. Our success is based as much on our future-friendly team as the innovative technology solutions we offer.

We live in and work in a rapidly evolving digital world where cyber security is critical. Protecting information and ensuring the reliability of network and services is paramount. Our team strives to always be steps ahead, tackling the toughest cyber security challenges head-on with top talent and cutting-edge technology.

TAC security team protects TAC systems and information by setting security strategy, selecting solutions, identifying weaknesses, and integrating new technologies securely and performing risk assessment by analyzing proposed architectural changes and applying the latest security standards.

What you’ll do

As an experienced security professional with strong collaboration and communication skills, you will:

• Perform security risk analysis, identity and access control standards and modelling, and best practices, allowing you to perform security reviews and analysis on a wide variety of TAC services and product offerings.
• Contribute toward system/application security guidelines and policies in collaboration with internal and external TAC teams, helping to ensure TAC systems, applications and data are implemented to the highest security standards and controls.
• Provide thought leadership within information security working groups and internal/ external partnerships.
• Work closely with other peers at TAC to enhance our identity, system, network and application security posture.
• Apply standards and best practice to solve information security problems.
• Conduct security reviews, evaluations, and risk assessments.
• Evaluate security and controls for new technologies to address such areas as infrastructure, security administration, user identification/authentication, data security, network/host intrusion prevention/detection/monitoring.
• Ensure identified risks are logged accurately in the GRC platform
• Educate and coach peer groups of architects/engineers on how to better design security into their various projects.

What you bring to this role

With the cybersecurity field evolving at a dramatic pace, staying updated with the latest advances is essential. You will have the ability to acquire knowledge of the latest practices and techniques. You will also possess strong analytical skills. A qualified candidate will possess the following:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Computer Science
• 5 years of experience with 2+ years in information security
• Experience with Cloud Computing security best practices (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• In-depth knowledge and expertise in information/network security technology, audit and control measures, monitoring/investigation methodologies and privacy legislations
• Knowledge of major security standards, guidance and frameworks including NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27000, CIS, OWASP, PCI etc.
• Skilled in project lifecycle/ DevOpsSecDevOps and system deployment methodologies

Nice to have

• Security certifications such as CISSP; CISA; CISM; CCSP, SANS/GIAC
• GCP / AWS/ Azure certifications
• Experience in system administration, infrastructure build, and software development in a security- focused environment

Join us

Collectively, our talented team and integrated solutions uniquely position us to transform collaboration within the industry at a global level, empowering and connecting producers to consumers for a more efficient, sustainable future.

Everyone belongs at TELUS. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected. Because the more diverse perspectives we have the more likely we are to crack the code on what our customers want and our communities need.

Do you share our passion for enabling remarkable human outcomes?

Together, let’s make the future friendly.

Accessibility

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.