Security Specialist - Security Architect (Intermediate)

Focus Systems Inc.; Regina; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Systems Inc. in Regina, Saskatchewan, is seeking an experienced Security Specialist - Security Architect (Intermediate) to provide security architecture expertise supporting critical infrastructure operations.

The successful candidate will assess security architecture, identify control gaps, and advise on secure infrastructure solutions while producing design documentation and collaborating with enterprise and data architects, project teams, and technical specialists.

Qualifications

• Intermediate-level experience, defined for this engagement as 6 to 8 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify security design gaps in current and proposed architectures and recommend risk-based improvements.
• Perform threat and risk assessments across infrastructure solutions and integrations.
• Define project and operational security requirements aligned with corporate standards, policies, and best practices.
• Review integrations, data flows, security controls, compliance obligations, and operational risks within solution designs.
• Prepare detailed solution designs, technical specification documents, preliminary conceptual solution designs, discovery documents, and core infrastructure planning materials.
• Advise Operations on practical security solutions across Cisco, Azure, networking, storage, data center, and server environments.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, data architecture, project teams, and technical specialists on roadmaps, strategies, and target architecture.
• Develop technology and security roadmaps, standards, design patterns, reusable artifacts, and recommendations, including budget implications where applicable
• Contribute to technology security, privacy, and logical and physical architecture assessments and designs.
• Provide governance, threat-risk, NERC CIP, and electric utility compliance advice.
• Coordinate technical discussions, document decisions, and maintain required technical records.

Skills

Infrastructure security

Threat and risk assessment

Security architecture

Cisco

Azure

Networking

Data center security

Documentation

Education

Computer Engineering or Computer Science degree

Equivalent combination

Tools

Cisco

Azure

Networking

Storage

Data center

Server security

Job description

Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Security Specialist - Security Architect (Intermediate) to provide security specialist and solution architecture expertise supporting critical infrastructure operations.

If you have strong experience assessing security architecture, identifying control gaps, advising on secure infrastructure solutions, and producing clear design documentation across complex enterprise environments, this is an opportunity to contribute to the security and resilience of essential utility operations in Regina, Saskatchewan.

• Contract: November 30, 2026, to December 31, 2027
• Industry: Electric Utility / Critical Infrastructure / Cybersecurity
• Work Arrangement: Fully onsite
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Role Overview

The Security Specialist - Security Architect (Intermediate) will identify security gaps in current and proposed architectures, prioritize improvements based on existing controls and operational risk, and advise operations on secure infrastructure solutions.

The successful candidate will review solution designs, provide practical security requirements, prepare architecture and technical design documentation, and collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, project teams, and technical specialists. The role emphasizes infrastructure security architecture, operational guidance, governance, and design documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify security design gaps in current and proposed architectures and recommend risk-based improvements.
• Perform threat and risk assessments across infrastructure solutions and integrations.
• Define project and operational security requirements aligned with corporate standards, policies, and best practices.
• Review integrations, data flows, security controls, compliance obligations, and operational risks within solution designs.
• Prepare detailed solution designs, technical specification documents, preliminary conceptual solution designs, discovery documents, and core infrastructure planning materials.
• Advise Operations on practical security solutions across Cisco, Azure, networking, storage, data center, and server environments.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, data architecture, project teams, and technical specialists on roadmaps, strategies, and target architecture.
• Develop technology and security roadmaps, standards, design patterns, reusable artifacts, and recommendations, including budget implications where applicable
• Contribute to technology security, privacy, and logical and physical architecture assessments and designs.
• Provide governance, threat-risk, NERC CIP, and electric utility compliance advice.
• Coordinate technical discussions, document decisions, and maintain required technical records.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Intermediate-level experience, defined for this engagement as 6 to 8 years of relevant experience
• Security solution architecture experience involving Cisco, Azure, networking, storage, data center, server, and related technologies
• Computer Engineering or Computer Science degree, or an equivalent combination accepted
• CISSP, SCCP, GIAC, or similar security training, with evidence of equivalency where applicable
• Ability to work full-time and fully on-site in Regina, Saskatchewan

Required Skills and Experience

• Infrastructure security architecture and design review
• Threat and risk assessment and security gap analysis
• Security requirements, controls, standards, policies, and best practices
• Cisco, Azure, network, storage, data center, and server security
• Architecture documentation, including conceptual and detailed solution designs and technical specifications
• Clear technical communication, facilitation, decision documentation, and stakeholder collaboration
• Risk-based prioritization that accounts for operational constraints and existing controls

Preferred Experience and Assets

• Prior operational administration experience
• Infrastructure administration experience across servers, storage, backup, and networks
• TOGAF certification
• Experience with utility security standards such as ISO 27019
• Knowledge of NERC CIP compliance
• Experience designing or assessing complex physical and cyber infrastructure solutions in an electrical utility environment

Application Deadline

November 02 at 11 PM CST