Security manager Jobs in Edmonton, AB

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Your Opportunity

Our Cloud Security Engineering team focuses on protecting cloud-first and hybrid organizations through modern security architectures, data protection, identity-centric controls, and continuous security operations. We work across Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud ecosystems and align security outcomes to business risk, regulatory expectations, and operational maturity.

We are seeking a Cloud Security Manager who combines strong technical leadership with people management experience, consulting delivery maturity, and the ability to help scale and evolve our cloud security services.

Key Responsibilities:

People Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of consultants and senior consultants through regular check-ins, feedback, and career development conversations.

• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Manage resourcing, utilization, and work allocation across multiple engagements.

• Mentor team members on both technical execution and consulting delivery, including judgement in complex client environments.

• Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and integration of new team members.

Technical Leadership & Oversight

• Provide technical leadership and oversight across complex cloud security engagements.

• Act as the escalation point for complex technical or delivery challenges.

• Lead solution design and implementation oversight in large, regulated, or complex environments

• Lead and deliver cloud security assessments, architecture reviews across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Support secure adoption of AI and GenAI workloads, including data exposure risk, identity boundaries, and model access controls.

• Translate security risks into clear, business focused recommendations for both technical and executive audiences.

• Work with multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and various security vendors to understand their solution offerings and advise clients on appropriate technologies and architectures, based on their needs.

• Review key deliverables and ensure they meet technical and quality standards before client submission.

Client Delivery

• Lead multiple concurrent client engagements, ensuring delivery quality, timelines, and budget adherence.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client security, IT, risk, and executive stakeholders.

• Translate complex technical risks into clear, business-focused guidance.

• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.

• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, solution shaping, and effort estimation.

Service Development & Practice Growth

• Contribute to the development and evolution of cloud security service offerings, accelerators, and delivery standards.

• Provide input into strategic direction, tooling selection, and innovation priorities for the service line.

• Identify opportunities to standardize delivery, improve margins, and enhance consistency across engagements.

• Champion the adoption of automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and modern delivery approaches.

How do we define success for your role?

Success in this role is defined by demonstrating BDO's core values of Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration, understanding the client's industry and challenges, and delivering high-quality work and building strong, capable teams.

Additionally, you will:

• Delivering high-quality, risk-based security outcomes that align to client priorities.

• Build and sustain engaged, high-performing delivery teams.

• Maintain strong technical credibility while enabling others to execute effectively.

• Demonstrate sound judgement in complex, ambiguous environments.

• Balance delivery excellence with commercial and operational awareness.

• Living BDO’s core values of integrity, respect, collaboration, and excellence

Your experience and education:

You should have a minimum of 3 to 6 years of relevant work experience and firsthand experience with:

• Hands-on experience in cloud security, cybersecurity consulting, or security engineering.

• Strong understanding of cloud security domains including identity, data protection, logging, monitoring, and architecture.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams and managing delivery in a consulting environment.

• Experience delivering engagements in large, complex, or regulated environments.

• Familiarity with industry frameworks and standards

• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Experience working in consulting or client-facing delivery roles.

• Successful candidates will have experience or strong exposure to several of the following areas:

  Cloud & Platform Security

  Microsoft Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud security services

  Secure landing zones and cloud reference architectures

  Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)

  DevSecOps concepts, CI/CD pipeline security, and secrets management

  Data Protection & Information Security

  Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, DLP, eDiscovery, Insider Risk)

  Data classification, labeling, and encryption strategies

  Data Loss Prevention across cloud services and endpoints

  Secure collaboration and third-party data sharing controls

  Identity & Zero Trust

  Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

  Conditional Access, MFA, phishing-resistant authentication

  Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Just-in-Time access

  Identity governance and lifecycle automation

  AI & Emerging Technology Security

  Securing Copilot, GenAI, and AI-enabled workloads

  Data leakage risks in AI-assisted environments

  Governance and access controls for AI services

Preferred Qualifications

• College Diploma or University Degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, or Computer Science.

• Advanced certification in one or more cloud service platforms (one of more preferred):

  Azure Security Engineer, SC-series certifications

  AWS Security Specialty

  CISSP, CCSP, CISM

The expected range of compensation for this role is $115,,000 - $165,000 annually.