Security Specialist - Senior

LanceSoft Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Specialist to enhance Ontario's cyber security infrastructure. This pivotal role involves providing expert security design advice, leading significant projects, and fostering relationships with IT cyber security teams. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring compliance with legal requirements and industry best practices while driving operational excellence. If you are passionate about cyber security and eager to make a difference in public service, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Expertise in security design principles and best practices.
• Strong project management skills for security architecture projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide security design expertise and advice to stakeholders.
• Lead large scale security architecture design projects.

Skills

Technical Security Architecture Design

Project Management

Communication Skills

Cyber Security Expertise

Job description

Title: Security Specialist
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 12 Months

Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
The Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (COE) is seeking one (1) Senior Cyber Security Specialist to support in strengthening Ontario’s cyber security infrastructure as the province collectively moves more government programs and services online:

1. Digital Transformation: Transforming through a digital first approach to lower the cost of delivery and make services simpler, faster and better for people, businesses and OPS employees priority.
2. Service Delivery Excellence: Driving operational excellence and continuous improvement in the delivery of services and transforming and streamlining delivery models across government with private sector partners.
3. Supporting Businesses: Simplifying Ontario’s regulatory framework and reducing the administrative burden on businesses to make it easier to engage with all of government priority.
4. Portal Site Migration & Strategic Planning: Leading the secure migration and optimization of the Cyber Security Ontario portal.

The role requires the following competencies:

Technical Security Architecture Design - 25%

• Provides security design expertise and advice to internal stakeholders on design principles and best practices and the development and implementation of security mechanisms to ensure the protection of information assets of client ministries and compliance with legal requirements, and industry best practices.

Security Liaison and Advice - 25%

• Maintains on-going liaison with IT cyber security staff and senior client ministry program management to facilitate working relationships on all security planning, implementation and management matters by assessing security needs and assisting asset custodians in the identification, design, and implementation of security architecture.

Project Management - 25%

• Leads and/or carries out large scale and sensitive security architecture design projects and/or significant components of other projects with security design elements, to mitigate identified risk to an acceptable level, ensuring compliance and integration with the Enterprise Information Architecture and Cluster architectures; provide supervision/technical direction to teams, coordinate development of design specifications, prepare reports, estimates, and feasibility studies.

Communication and Relationship Management Skills - 25%

• Demonstrated communication, consultative and advisory skills to act as a lead technical resource and provide expertise to ongoing contacts.

Must haves:

• Provides security design expertise and advice to internal stakeholders on design principles and best practices and the development and implementation of security mechanisms to ensure the protection of information assets of client ministries and compliance with legal requirements, and industry best practices.