Senior Security Specialist - Not specified, Canada - Ontario Health

Description

At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province.

Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value.

How we work together is reflected through our five values:
integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.


What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us.

Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day

Health care spending account

Premium defined benefit pension plan

3 personal days and 2 float days annually

Individual contributors start at 3 weeks' vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.

Career development opportunities

A collaborative values-based team culture

A wellness program

A hybrid working model

Participation in Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

The Senior Specialist, Security will work with various teams within Ontario Health and with its health sector partners to ensure the timely, efficient, and quality delivery of Cyber Security products and services.

They will contribute to the assessment, development, execution, and maturing of OH's information security programs, and serve as a security subject matter expert to the organization.

The Senior Specialist, Security typically is an individual contributor that takes a leading role in various security governance and operational initiatives by providing security expertise, facilitating collaboration, and furthering the organization's objectives.

Here is what you will be doing:

Identifies and recommends security controls and solutions, as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them, for product/services/and assessment initiatives that meet projects and customer needs and timelines, while adhering to overall OH security frameworks and approved methodologies and patterns.

Consults on and advises and influences product/portfolio project planning by identifying security by design and significant for products in a holistic approach to ensure end products and services are aligned with OH Security program requirements.

Assesses and identifies cross-product security control gaps and opportunities for mitigation and alignment with the security policies and standards and industry best practices, and advocates for solutions to address security gaps with product owners before releasing them to production.

Analyzes proposed solution architectures, technology, design, and IT development processes to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, and to recommend options that enhance the security of solutions and business processes.

Identifies, analyzes, and recommends options for risk management at appropriate levels within the enterprise and the health care sector.

Supports the development of roadmaps, program, and product vision.

Provides guidance on how to build and deploy secure solutions or placing compensating controls for business and technical challenges.

Identifies dependencies in project and product deliverables and provides guidance for planning and delivery.

Influences and guides senior and lead developers, IT Operations and Service Desk, and Architects related to Security requirements, vision, best practices, and principles.

Delivers internal security consulting services.

Works with a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.

Collaborates with internal peers and local programs to ensure alignment of security practices, controls, patterns, and solutions to mitigate identified risks and gaps.

Stays current on security landscape and threat vectors and assesses new security trends with respect to Ontario Health's business needs and identifies opportunities to improve the security posture of products and services and on business, technology, architecture, and solution design trends.

Stays abreast of provincial, federal, and international security attack tools, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and secure operating trends.

Guides and influences project team to align and build with an eye to OH's Information Security approved frameworks and methodology.

Develops, maintains, and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice. toward the betterment of Ontario Health, Ontario, and Canada wide health system cyber security practice.

Guides and influences portfolios, partners, and health sector entities to align solutions and services to Ontario Health's digital and cyber security vision considering provincial, national, and international mandates.

Collaborates with and guides and mentors senior, junior and peer security specialists.

Coaches developers, IT operations and architects about latest security threats and landscape and well as introducing tools and techniques as needed controls for securing OH digital assets, data, and operation.

Identifies opportunities, impacts and transformations required to realize their value and assess their implications on the future state of specific products or portfolios.

Frames information and communicates in a high-risk environment where information sharing to demonstrate transparency and trust is closely balanced with the reputational and liability risks of not sharing the appropriate information to the right audience or at the right time.

Provides subject matter expertise in various provincial and regional cyber security governance and risk management initiatives.

Consults with members and organizations in the health care community to implement security policies and related controls and to onboard them to regional and provincial health care initiatives.

Tracks the implementation and remediation activities across organizations.

Coordinates internal and external information security initiatives as a subject matter expert to reach feasible security solutions for complex problems and issues across the health care sector.

Plays a leading role in the implementation and operationalization of those solutions.

Contributes to the ongoing development and maturing of the OH security program, consulting, and assurance practices.

Implements tools and processes to manage workflow and materials related to the information security governance.

Prepares and maintains security-training materials, deliver security-training sessions to various stakeholders throughout the province and within the organization.

Manages multiple clients and security related projects simultaneously and presents status updates to upper management.

Works with IT, Development, and all other OH Enterprise teams to establish appropriate security processes, controls and ensure compliance with security policies.

Takes a leading role in various OH security initiatives providing security expertise, facilitating collaboration and furthering OH's security objectives.

Operates and monitors various state of the art tools to detect, prevent and mitigate cyber security threats or risks to OH.

Works with internal and external (regional partner and vendor) stakeholders.

Collaborates with members within OH, and with the provincial and federal level cyber security counterparts to support OH and the healthcare sector from cyber threats.

Makes decisions where results have a major impact across the organization requiring on the fly recommendations to the project teams, developers, and IT operations while following the overall OH approved and Industry best practices.

Here is what you will need to be successful:

Education and Experience

BA or MBA in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience.

6-8 years of overall working experience in technology/digital/systems roles.

3-5 of it working experience in security technologies, principles, risk management, vulnerability management, monitoring and incident response, program development, and architecture.

Certifications in cyber security (e.g., CISSP or CISA) are required, or working towards.

Experience conducting and leading Cyber Security Readiness assessments, business process analysis, continuous improvement, process redesign.

Experience evaluating existing cyber security performance, establishing cyber security KPIs, applying performance methodologies.

Experience in security governance development Policies, Standards, Procedures.

Experience with change management including design, preparation and maintenance of security training materials, proven ability to deliver security training sessions to various stakeholders within healthcare and at different scales.

Experience influencing, negotiating, and building positive relationships within the team and external parties.

Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including SharePoint & Teams, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server.

Strong knowledge and experience in the Evaluation and Synthesis of security risk using methodologies such as HTRA and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2 and NIST CSF.

Expert understanding of risk assessment methodologies such as HTRA and CSF, and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2and NIST.

Knowledge of security architecture

Strong understanding of Security Architectural and Design concepts for products and services within Ontario Health and partners (e.g. ,Hospitals).
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