Security Engineer

BCI•Victoria, BC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

BCI is looking for a senior security professional who thrives in complex, high-stakes environments. You will engineer and defend security solutions across cloud and hybrid infrastructure for one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, with real autonomy, real impact, and a team that takes the craft seriously. The Technology department is a strategic partner with BCI’s business areas. It enables investment processes and business activities that contribute to the achievement of BCI’s mission and long-term goals. The department creates the digital capabilities that support and enable BCI to innovate, modernize service and product offerings guided by best practices, and drive a digitally empowered workplace through new collaboration and productivity ecosystems. The department is also responsible for providing the foundational infrastructure, systems, business applications, and advanced technologies for the front, middle, and back office. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Cyber Security Engineering & Operations, the Security Engineer is responsible for security processes, technologies, and projects with various levels of complexity. The Security Engineer will be instrumental in developing security requirements and designing and implementing security solutions. The Security Engineer collaborates and communicates with business and technology teams in an Agile hybrid environment and enables the effective and efficient delivery of secure, quality products. At all levels, the Security Engineer may be assigned to one or more focus areas requiring additional specialized expertise and responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in technology, engineering, computer science, or a related field
A minimum of 5 years of experience in progressively senior technical roles with responsibility focused on information security processes, products, and projects
Very strong knowledge in engineering secure systems
Experience with securing cloud environments (MS Azure)
Must have excellent documentation, customer-service, listening, communication and problem-solving skills
Must be able to implement programs, security technologies and solutions to measure and sustain the security posture of large, complex environments
Professional certifications such as Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or equivalent experience is essential
Must have some combination of strong hands-on experience with at minimum 4 or 5 of the following skills or technologies: Identity and access management systems for hybrid environments, Secure coding practices, Systems engineering, Ethical vulnerability research and threat modeling, Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems security, virtualization technology security, container security and serverless computing security, Privileged access management systems for hybrid environments, EDR and/or other endpoint protection technologies, Firewall, intrusion protection and intrusion detection systems, Zero Trust system design, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) systems, Secure application design principles, Data Classification and DLP solutions, Enterprise vulnerability management, including vulnerability assessment, remediation, and reporting, Incident response, Various networking technologies, including subnetting, NAC, DNS, encryption technologies and standards, VPNs, VLANs, VoIP and other network routing methods, Phishing and social engineering

Nice To Haves

Experience with Agile methods (Scrum) and DevOps practices is an asset

Responsibilities

Develops technical security requirements for new products, tools and services envisioned for implementation at BCI
Help and guide projects during solution design phase
Collaborates and coordinates with application, operations, and product teams to provide guidance on the development of secure product designs that meet security requirements
Architects, analyzes, and recommends security controls and procedures in business processes related to the use of information systems and assets, and monitors for compliance
Provides technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to team members and creates a culture of customer-centricity, accountability, and high performance
Ability to communicate complex security issues and develop security user stories in language that non-technical stake holders can understand
Ability to deliver and test security solutions in alignment with industry security standards
Ability to respond to information security issues at each stage of a project’s lifecycle
Proactively identifies risks and issues and proposes solutions to remove barriers
Performs validation and tuning of security testing tools to provide accurate and actionable results that drive improvements to BCI’s overall security posture
Performs security monitoring of solutions and participates as a subject matter expert in security incident response scenarios
Ensures that all application and infrastructure solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with security standards and policies
Undertakes special projects or assignments as required
Ability to document designs as well as produce technical reports in support of security initiatives
Performs other related duties as required