Cyber security engineer Jobs in Halifax, NS

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Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Role overview:

The Operational Technology Solution Architect is a senior technical role responsible for designing, developing, and delivering secure solutions and architectures for Operational Technology (OT) environments. This position translates enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategies into practical, implementable OT solutions that align with business objectives, effectively mitigate risks in industrial environments, support regulatory compliance, and enable secure technology adoption across OT systems, including ICS, SCADA, DCS, and IIoT. The role requires strong solution design and product selection skills with deep expertise in OT security technologies, particularly Claroty and Cisco solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop secure solution architectures for Operational Technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy, frameworks, and standards.

• Provide expert technical leadership in the solutioning of OT cybersecurity requirements for IT/OT convergence projects and industrial systems.

• Collaborate with business leaders, OT operational teams, IT teams, and delivery teams to translate business needs and security requirements into robust, scalable, and secure OT solution designs.

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and integration of appropriate OT security solutions and technologies, with particular focus on Claroty for asset visibility, exposure management, and risk mitigation, and Cisco technologies for secure industrial networking and segmentation.

• Conduct solution-level risk assessments and recommend mitigation strategies to address security gaps in OT architectures.

• Ensure solution designs comply with architecture governance processes, standards, and regulatory requirements (including IEC 62443).

• Work closely with engineering and delivery teams to support the implementation, integration, and validation of secure OT solutions.

• Contribute to incident response planning and ensure solution resilience against OT-specific cyber threats.

• Communicate complex OT solution architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including project teams, plant operators, and senior leadership.

Your profile

Required

• 8+ years in IT or OT, with at least 5 years in cybersecurity solution architecture (including significant experience in OT or industrial control system security solutions).

• Expertise in designing secure solution architectures for Operational Technology environments.

• Technical knowledge of Claroty and/ or Cisco industrial security solutions, OT protocols, segmentation strategies, Purdue Model, and IT/OT convergence.

• Excellent solution design and product evaluation skills for OT security and networking technologies.

• Ability to translate high-level architecture strategies and operational requirements into practical, implementable secure OT solutions.

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills across multidisciplinary teams, including OT operations.

• Proven ability to communicate complex OT solution concepts to both technical delivery teams and non-technical audiences, including plant operators and executives.

• Sound commercial awareness and understanding of how secure OT solution architecture supports business value, operational continuity, and risk reduction.

• Up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging OT-specific cyber threats, attack techniques, and defensive technologies relevant to the UK and international operations.

• Required Certifications: CISSP, CISM.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering secure OT solutions in complex industrial, large-scale, and hybrid IT/OT environments.

• Hands-on solution architecture expertise with Claroty platforms for OT asset visibility, exposure management, threat detection, and network protection, and Cisco technologies for secure industrial networking, segmentation, and zero-trust approaches in OT environments.

• Product selection and evaluation skills for OT security and networking platforms.

• Background in OT risk management frameworks, Purdue Model, IEC 62443, and regulatory compliance (e.g., NIS Regulations, GDPR).

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with architecture, engineering, OT operations, and delivery stakeholders.

Why Haleon?

None of us should ever feel like we’re standing still. At Haleon, we want you to feel supported, valued, and always progressing. Improving everyday health takes dedication, energy, and effort - so we reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• Contract of employment

• Annual bonus that reflects performance

• < our philosophy to hybrid work (2-3 days onsite per week)

• Private medical package (Medicover) with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible

• Multisport card or points on the Multicafeteria Benefits account

• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally

• Pension plan membership and savings programme (PPE)

• Personalized learning paths and access to diverse development tools to support your professional growth.

• Generali Life insurance

• Supportive community and integration events

• Family benefits (extra parental leave, caregiver’s policy)

• Free car and bike parking

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PLN 245 668,00 - PLN 337 793,50 The salary range for this position is indicative and provided as a guide. The final offer may vary depending on factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations. Further details regarding the total reward and benefits package will be shared during the recruitment process. Salary ranges may vary by location in line with local market conditions and applicable pay transparency regulations. Compensation information is shared for the primary location of this role. Where the position is advertised with additional locations the compensation range will be discussed during the recruiting process.

Job Posting End Date

2026-11-04

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

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