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Job title: Senior Specialist – Urban Technology Protection (Emerging Technology)
Company: ADGA
Job description: Company Description
Founded in 1967, ADGA is a privately owned and operated Canadian company. We employ over 700 highly skilled team members who apply their knowledge and expertise in service delivery of advanced technology solutions for clients in the Defence, Security and Professional Services markets across Canada. Celebrating over 50 years in business, we are proud to be one of Canada’s most trusted professional engineering and consultancy firms. Our clients continue to rely on ADGA to provide subject matter expertise, and quality talent to fulfill their business objectives. We have done so successfully by anticipating and responding to the constant changes in technology, and evolving with agility. Our culture of commitment, trust, and accountability guides our business, fosters our growth, and is at the core of our relationships with clients, employees and consultants. Whether your projects are complex, large-scale requirements, or dependable, professional resources to execute on time, and on budget, you can count on ADGA to deliver. We are dedicated to your success.
Job Description
To provide subject matter expertise, strategic advice, senior level guidance and operational support for the development, delivery, sustainment and protection of critical infrastructure and emerging technologies that will assist in detecting, monitoring and predicting cyber risk.
To engage with teams across the organization to build alignment on key projects and initiatives and develop execution roadmaps.
To support the execution of the Chief Information Security Officer’s (CISO) mandate, cyber vision and strategy, providing technical and business advice, support and services to all City divisions, agencies and corporations.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops and implements detailed plans and recommends cyber security policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
- Supervises, motivates and trains assigned project staff and contract resources, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
- Supervises the day to day operation of all assigned project staff and contract resources, including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Coordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and assists in evaluating staff performance, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
- Provides direction, leadership, guidance and advice to project teams, assigned project staff and contract resources. Oversees and reviews their work.
- Provides leadership to influence employee engagement to the organization, to the team, and to their role.
- Conducts research into assigned area ensuring that such research takes into account developments within the field, corporate policies and practices, legislation and initiatives by other levels of government.
- Provides input into assigned project budgets, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
- Provides subject matter expertise and strategic advice on cyber security issues affecting the organization, identifying potential exposures, and conducting reviews to ensure that undesirable effects are detected, mitigated and/or corrected, and providing pragmatic advice to clients to ensure that cyber risks are managed appropriately.
- Serves as the internal/external point of contact and subject matter expert in critical infrastructure and emerging technology protection, sustainment, development and delivery.
- Anticipates, analyzes and identifies organizational impacts of emerging requirements; recommends and coordinates innovative solutions using conflict resolution and negotiation skills to successfully manage sensitive and controversial matters.
- Participates in the development of transformation strategies focused on security, integrating and managing new or existing technology systems to deliver continuous operational improvements and detect, respond, and remediate threats.
- Resolves cyber risk issues. Escalates significant cyber risk matters to senior management when required.
- Deals with confidential information affecting the organization and its resources. Prepares and presents reports to management supporting recommendations on changes/improvements in business processes, training and services standards that impact appropriate staffing levels and resource allocation.
- Makes recommendations based on investigation results which could lead to the discipline or dismissal of staff.
- Participates in the development, implementation, administration, monitoring and maintenance of security tools collecting confidential information on infrastructure and application weaknesses Maintains up to date knowledge of City’s confidential cyber infrastructure.
- Works with senior management within the division to address active internal/external cyber threats to the City. Attends senior management meetings, makes recommendations to mitigate the threats, and takes appropriate urgent action as needed.
- Provides a confidential assessment of organizational issues and makes recommendations for next steps, including policy, procedural and structural change.
- Leads the delivery and sustainment of adequately protected critical infrastructure and emerging technologies. Works with clients to develop solutions for critical infrastructure and emerging technologies that will assist to detect, monitor, and predict risk.
- Determines cyber security requirements of business strategies in order to provide appropriate advice, guidance, and technical solutions.
- Designs the proper sets of Operational Technologies (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) security architecture controls to ensure authenticity, non-repudiation, and least privilege commensurate with risk requirements.
- Performs cyber review of OT and IoT technologies in targeted processes across all areas of the organization. Designs, develops, tests, and implements security controls in Emerging Technology (Emerging Technologies (e.g. Election Technologies, Autonomous Vehicles, 5G, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Sensing)) projects.
- Facilitates key decisions involving IoT, OT and Emerging Technology architecture and systems.
- Collaborates with teams across all areas of the organization to understand the business direction and consequent impact on the security posture of the existing IoT, OT and Emerging technologies.
- Leads the development and implementation of enterprise information security requirements across the OT environment.
- Develops and maintains an understanding of the current state of the IoT and OT information security environment, including gaps and risks, and identifies and leads opportunities for improvement.
- Develops roadmaps for information security technology solutions in IoT and OT and oversees any issues through to resolution.
- Works with the business integration leads to identify technology specific requirements and assess new technologies for applicability.
- Leads the technical integration between information technology and IoT and OT requirements, including supporting the identification of data point connections for metrics and reporting.
- Performs architecture security reviews and develops scenarios that can be tested in either production or laboratory environments for smart city.
- Reviews system-related materials including specifications, diagrams, requirements and tests plans to ensure security-related standards are followed.
- Reviews assessment results with system owners and senior level stakeholders and provides recommendations based off of gathered metrics.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree in Engineering or Technology or a related discipline
- Over 6 years’ experience in Information Security.
- In-depth knowledge of industry standards and best practices, especially related to industrial environments in the cyber security space.
- Extensive experience with Industrial Control Systems, PLCs, and SCADA Systems
- Extensive experience with Emerging Technologies (e.g. Election Technologies, Autonomous Vehicles, 5G, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Sensing)
- Technical expertise in IT/OT integration and convergence.
- Familiar with process safety risk, process hazard analysis, control system analysis, and layer of protection analysis.
- Expertise in security protection solutions including firewall, intrusion detection and protection systems, web application firewalls, anti-virus, and security monitoring solutions.
- Preferred Certifications (any in the list): CISSP, CTIA IoT, CCSP, CISM
Additional Information
- Salary: $130,353.60
- Vacation: 3 weeks
- Full benefits package
- Pension plan
ADGA commits to putting diversity into action to build a stronger, more representative team and help our customers and communities thrive. We are a proudly Canadian and woman-led company, striving to further diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and provide every individual with the opportunities and resources to help them reach their full potential.
ADGA s’engage à mettre la diversité en action pour bâtir une équipe plus forte et plus représentative et aider nos clients et nos communautés à prospérer. Nous sommes une entreprise fièrement canadienne, dirigée par une femme. Nous nous engageons pour promouvoir la diversité, l’équité et l’inclusion dans le milieu de travail et d’offrir à chaque personne les possibilités et les ressources qui lui permettront de réaliser son plein potentiel.
Expected salary: $130353.6 per year
Location: Toronto, ON
Job date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 03:33:06 GMT
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