Senior Security Architect Full Time Permanent

VTRAC Consulting Corporation

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Title:                                     Senior Security Architect – Azure
Type:                                   Permanent
No. of Positions:                1
Location:                             Toronto, ON

Description:

We are embarking in a multi-year, multi-million-dollar technology transformation program which will completely redesign every façade of our platform. We will be leveraging the latest technologies and tools, such as a hyper-converged infrastructure, software-defined network, cloud, containers and APIs, to serve the industry better, and adapt to this ever changing technology and investment landscape.

The Security Architect will play a crucial role in setting the strategy and technical direction applied to ensuring that our data and applications throughout the lifecycle remain secure. The incumbent will be responsible for working with our Security team to ensure that our applications and data platforms conform to disciplined, industry best practices for information security.

The Security Architect will offer a comprehensive background in information security being applied across a wide breadth of technologies spanning both solutions built on traditional platforms, and more modern deployments on standards based/open technology stacks in Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Develop an understanding of current and target state architecture to define a strategy for the technical direction of security.
• Develop a hybrid cloud Security Architecture for fault-tolerant & scalable applications that adhere to expected standards and discipline from a security posture.
• Provide Security architecture & design oversight for systems and projects and define solution level security architecture for project and work with associated accountability & ownership
• Identify and document information security risks and data privacy considerations and propose mitigating controls, including working with the teams to achieve optimal risk profiles.
• Collaborate with organizational stakeholders on security related strategy, roadmaps, standards, and governance.
• Lead engineering teams in identifying and addressing security issues, integration or rationalization of existing overlapping security platforms, plan risk assessment of cloud and systems, conduct technical audits for existing architectures.
• Partner with the various teams to identify data sources and flows and highlight security system gaps/blind spots and overlaps/duplications.

Must Have:

• Minimum 6 years related work experience, as an architect/engineer with experience in architecting, designing and developing large scale security solutions utilizing a mixture of hardware and software technologies.
• Deep understanding of cloud operations and cloud security models with hands-on experience on Azure or major cloud providers.
• Strong experience with encryption technologies and techniques in Cloud (Azure Key Vault, HSM, IAM, etc.)
• Knowledge of best practices for managing identities, authentication (i.e. AD, Azure AD/Connect, Cyberark etc.) and authorized access to IT assets
• Knowledge of network security and applicable solutions, including firewalls, IPS, IDS, SIEM, NGFW, proxies, gateways, Wi-Fi, segmentation and micro segmentation.
• Practical knowledge in Information security standards (e.g. ISO 27001/2, ISO 27017/18, PCI-DSS, NIST SP800, PIPEDA, PHIPA, CSAE 3000) • CISSP-ISSAP is an asset.

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