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Job Title: Security Architect
Job ID:78853
Location:Regina, Saskatchewan

Overview:
Our client has an immediate need to hire a Security Architect on a 5-year contract (1-year initial with 4 x 1 yr renewals), reference number RFR-0678, for their Regina, SK location. The role is onsite and the candidate must be located in the Regina area for the duration of the contract.

What you will be doing:

• Participate in technical architecture design reviews to ensure infrastructure and application designs adhere to GOS security policies, guidelines, and standards.
• Collaborate with the Solution Architects and vendors in identifying cloud security requirements and secure integration of Applications, Endpoint, Network, and Cloud solutions.
• Analyze the current IT environments to detect critical security deficiencies, identify gaps in processes and recommend solutions for improving security posture.
• Keep up to date on security industry best-practices and market trends, determine their potential impact on the enterprise, and provide leadership for adapting security advancements into our business.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and suggest suitable security controls. Be responsive and decisive on adjusting architecture as per customers’ requirements, market conditions and technology evolve.
• Partner with solutioning team to facilitate the evaluation and selection of hardware, software technology and cloud solutions, as well as document the security architecture design of software and solution configurations.
• Ensure existing data/information assets are identified, classified, and protected across the enterprise. Balance the need for access to information against security and performance requirements.
• Ensure information security is built into architecture solutions to address all identified risks to assets within the organization, meet regulatory and legislative compliance while ensuring security solutions are leveraged across the organization.
• Prepare security advisory on existing technology platforms.
• Aid and support to the Security Risk, Governance, Compliance, and Operations functions.
• Provide advisory for security vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation.

What you must have:

• Information Security standards (ISO 27001) and frameworks.
• Security architecture components and controls.
• Defense-in-depth security practices.
• Achievement of industry accredited security certifications: such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) plus The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), and/or SANS Institute Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) will be considered an asset.
• A self-starter with professional accountability.
• Communication skills, with the ability to present ideas, strategies, theories and plans to all levels of the organization in a manner consumable for the audience.
• Organizational skills, with the ability to multitask and set clear timelines for expected deliverables.
• Collaborative skills and a consultative approach with the capability of problem solving.