Cybersecurity Architect – Cloud Security & Palo Alto SASE.
Summary
As a Security Architect, lead architecture work for client systems, design security architectures, and collaborate with stakeholders. Core technologies include Palo Alto SASE, cloud security, and NIST CSF.
Security Architect
Toronto, ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)
6-12 months
The Information Security team partners with departments to
advance technology and third-party information cyber risk management
capabilities that enable the Fund to compete effectively and take advantage of
innovative technologies.
The Security Architecture Engineering team is responsible
for determining, designing, and implementing security controls for the
organization, including assessing the security level of applications.
Job summary and purpose
As a Security Architect, you will lead pieces of
architecture work for key client systems and programs. You will collaborate
with various stakeholders to help define the solution architecture and ensure
it aligns with the enterprise vision and architecture strategy.
Major accountabilities
- Support
the implementation and delivery of the client architecture vision, through
the definition of architecture roadmaps, transition architectures, and
solution documents.
- Lead
the design, development, and execution of security architecture
strategies, ensuring they align with the organizations security
objectives and business goals.
- Design
and implement security architectures solutions across all systems
and applications.
- Ensure
these architectures align with industry best practices and regulatory
requirements.
- Continuously
assess and improve security processes, procedures, and infrastructure to
ensure they are effective, efficient, and compliant.
- Help
build and maintain the solution architecture lifecycle and methodology
appropriate to the wider enterprise architecture and client IT
capabilities, including the definition of artefacts, deliverables, models,
processes, roles, and responsibilities.
- Function
as a trusted security technical advisor that collaborates with both
business and technical stakeholders, sets direction, builds consensus,
mediates conflicts, and helps to drive optimum solutions.
- Ensure
adherence to architecture processes, standards and principles to deliver
solutions with high performance, agility, reuse, etc.
- Deliver
collaborative architecture decisions for the technical infrastructure and
application environments facilitate and contribute to architecture
decisions for the business and information environments.
Core Qualifications
- Undergraduate
degree or college diploma in related field.
- 10
years of relevant experience as a Security Architect
- Experience
in information and cybersecurity, including strategy design,
implementation, and monitoring.
- Experience
providing strategic guidance in a large consulting organization is a plus.
- Deep
technical or operational experience with broad knowledge across various
security disciplines such as access management, cloud security, and
risk management.
- Experience
with security frameworks like NIST CSF and a variety of leading
security technologies.
- Experience
with Palo Alto SASE solution preferred
- Possess
one or more of the following industry certifications
- CISSP
- CISA
- CISM
- CCSP
Certified Cloud Security Professional
- oSABSA
- Security Architecture
- o
Other industry recognized Information Security certifications
Key responsibilities
Team Description
The Information Security team partners with departments to
advance technology and third-party informationcyber risk management
capabilities that enable the Fund to compete effectively and take advantage of
innovative technologies.
The Security Architecture Engineering team is responsible
for determining, designing, and implementing security controls for the
organization, including assessing the security level of applications.
Job summary and purpose
As a Security Architect, you will lead pieces of
architecture work for key client systems and programs. You will collaborate
with various stakeholders to help define the solution architecture and ensure
it aligns with the enterprise vision and architecture strategy.