Consulting Infrastructure Specialist - Toronto, Canada - Canada Life Assurance Company

Canada Life Assurance Company

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Description:

Who we are:

Canada Life is a leading Canadian insurer focused on improving the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians.

For more than 125 years, our customers across Canada have trusted us to provide for their financial security needs and deliver on the promises we have made.

We serve the financial security needs of 13 million people across Canada.

At Canada Life, the foundation of our strategy is to put the customer at the center of everything we do.

An important part of putting our customers at the centre is ensuring that we provide quality project delivery services & support to the business which arms them with the tools required to delight our customers.

What we're building:

We are maturing our Information Security Technology team who will work closely with Global and Canadian Information Security Offices and other Infrastructure and Application Technology teams to deliver new Security services in a continuous improvement manner.

Our Security services defend global enterprise, including business units, customers, and shareholders from external and internal security threats.

Our team consists of highly motivated, innovative, and tech-savvy engineers that evaluate, design, and deploy security technologies using agile delivery methods and automation.

What you'll do:

The Consulting Security Engineer (Consulting Infrastructure Technology Specialist) is responsible for providing technical leadership to a team of security practitioners by mentoring and supporting them in the evaluation, design, deployment, and operationalization security technologies on various projects.

He or she provides technology innovation by researching and conducting proof-of-concept on emerging technologies. Also, creates and maintains technology roadmaps and promotes a mindset of continuous service improvement by conducting service health assessments.

The Consulting Security Engineer will support multiple squads, consisting of cross functional roles, that will be focused on Endpoint Protection and Security Response, Platform and Application Security, Network and Cloud Security.

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responsibilities:

Provides technical consulting on the capabilities and limitations of security technologies and possible implementations
Creates and maintains security technology roadmaps
Helps evolve security engineering practice by mentoring practitioners, developing design standards, and establishing engineering methodology
Provides technical leadership on large projects by leading a team of security practitioners to design and deploy security technologies; Review and approve design documents
Conducts technical health assessments on the security technologies
Leads the validation and practicality of new technologies through rapid prototyping and POCs
Does the ad hoc research and experimentation that may be needed to answer technology questions
Conducts product/technology evaluation against established criteria and business requirements and provides recommendation including effective documentation and presentation of the recommendation
Works with product vendors to obtain evaluation hardware or software
Installs evaluation hardware or software in a test or pilot environment
Designs, builds, and integrates 3rd party components, using standard and/or scripting tools (batch languages, programming languages, Scripting languages, etc.)
Participates in the creation of project deliverables (estimates, schedules, risk assessments, etc.) as a project team member
Makes design decision within the bounds established by project, portfolio, site and enterprise architectures.
Works with security and enterprise operations to optimize endtoend support models and to ensure highest levels of service availability.
Participates in major incidents by providing 3rd level and 4th level support
Some travel maybe required

Who you are:

A degree or equivalent education in a related discipline such as Computer Science, Business Computing, Engineering, or Commerce. Security certification will be an asset as well
Proven skills in designing and deploying multiplatform solutions
Experience in scripting, orchestration, and automation tools such as Python, PowerShell, Ansible, BladeLogic, Git, CI/CD methodology, etc.
The incumbent should have skills and knowledge in capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, product/service lifecycles, service management and a strong focus on customer service
Experience in performance tuning complex infrastructure solutions; knowledge of performance and monitoring tools will be an asset
Attention to detail and effective planning and organizational skills
Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills
Demonstrated initiative (selfstarter) with the ability to influence others
Proven history of both technical and management skills
Good working knowledge of ITIL practices and processes
Strong leaders