SecDesign Security Architect

Title: SecDesign Security Architect
Location : MONTREAL & MIRABEL, QUEBEC
Duration: 6+ Months
Pay range: C$56 INC

Hybrid: Required 3 days in office
Experience: 10+ years

Job Description
The mission of the SecDesign team is to provide security architecture assessments of technology systems and processes to identify business risks and recommend remedial action based on established security standards or security best practices. The SecDesign Generalist is an internal consultant that is working on multiple security architecture and design assessments spanning multiple classes of technologies. It is an opportunity to get involved in multiple business units and technologies inherent to the mission of SecDesign. The Integrator works with team members (Technology, Business, Suppliers, Stakeholders and Partners) globally to perform SecDesign assessments. To be successful as an Integrator the candidate must have broad technology experience coupled with risk management, communication, and time management skills. The candidate will also be working with a global team of experts on modernizing the Firm’s SDLC platform to enable deployment automation to private and public cloud endpoints and SaaS-based tooling. This role affords the opportunity to get in on the ground floor to help build the next generation of development and deployment tooling across a diverse set of tech stacks for the next decade

A SecDesign Generalist has the following responsibilities:
1. Lead SecDesign deep dives with the requestor of the assessment.
2. Prioritize risks identified in relation to business risks.
3. Conduct assessment and provide technology risk/requirements to the requestor. Areas covered:
a. Authentication, Authorization, Auditing
b. Application Security – Session Security, Vulnerability/Pen Testing items, Input Validation
c. Secure data transport and storage
d. Network Security Principles and best practices.
e. Cloud Security Principles and best practices
1. Periodically review security reference architecture (security blueprints) and conduct updates/enhancements.
2. Participate in various Operational and Technology Risk governance processes.
3. Assist in identifying new areas and opportunities of technology investment for the firm.
Skills and Experience
Soft Skills (Required)
1. Excellent communication skills: written, oral, presentation, listening.
2. Ability to influence through factual reasoning.
3. Time management: ability to handle multiple concurrent assessments, plan based deliverable management, strong follow up and tracking.
4. Strong focus on delivery when presented with short timelines and increased involvement from senior management.
5. Ability to adjust communication of technology risks vs business risks based on the audience.

Security Architecture Skills
1. Required – In depth knowledge of application, network, and platform security vulnerabilities. Ability to explain these vulnerabilities to developers.
2. Required – Experience in conducting Information Security, IT Security, Audit assessments. Presenting the outcomes of the assessment and obtaining buy in.
3. Required – Strong focus on reviewing technical designs and functional requirements to identify areas of Security weakness.
4. Required – Knowledge of Cloud Service Providers (AWS/Google/Azure) cloud, DevOps and CI/CD
5. Required – The candidate must have working experience in at least three of the following application/network security domains:
a. Authentication: SAML, SiteMinder, Kerberos, OpenId
b. Entitlements and identity management
c. Data protection, data leakage prevention and secure data transfer and storage
d. App Security - validation checking, software attack methodologies.
e. Cryptography – encryption and hashing
6. Desired - Prior experience administering systems for version control (Bitbucket, Github), issue tracking (Jira), continuous integration (Jenkins, Github Actions), or release management.
7. Desired – Knowledge of standard network model and the risks that present at each layer, the functions of network equipment such as switches, routers, firewalls, proxies, VPNs, and load-balancers, and understanding of common network architectures.
8. Desired - The candidate must have working knowledge of the primary operating systems (Unix, Windows, z/OS, Mac OS), the configuration and management of that platform at an enterprise scale, the security risks to that platform, and how to mitigate those risks.
9. Desired - experience in testing tools, at least one of Veracode, Fortify, OunceLabs, AppScan, WebInspect, Burp
Development Experience
1. Required – Even though the SecDesign Integrator role is not a development role, the candidate must have previous background in programming, design, and application architecture.
2. Required – In order to be a practical SecDesign Integrator the candidate must have experience implementing complex applications in an enterprise environment.
3. Required – working knowledge of programming and scripting languages: Java, JavaScript, C#, C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby
4. Desired – In-depth knowledge of web technologies such as Web Browsers, Web Servers, Web Services
Other Areas of Expertise
1. Frameworks, protocols, and subsystems: J2EE, .NET, Spring, RPC, SOAP, MQSeries, JMS, RMI, JMX, Hibernate.
2. Knowledge of JSP /Servlet/EJB or ASP.NET, HTTP/HTTPS, Cookies, AJAX, JavaScript, Flex / Silverlight.
3. Database design and programming experience
4. Experience of liaising with 3rd Party Entities (exchanges, suppliers, regulators)
5. Experience in conducting and / or reviewing penetration tests, dynamic vulnerability assessments and static vulnerability assessments.
6. Understanding of geographic regulations and their impact on Security assessments
7. Previous experience in Financial Services is preferred.
8. CISSP or other industry qualification
9. Desired – experience working with global organizations.
Educational Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) with minimum 5 years relevant work experience in high-paced, enterprise environment
Recruiting Notes
Many application security candidates will have a lot of knowledge in using the testing tools identified in the job description. This is good but if their experience is solely in using the tools and not as a part of other responsibilities, then they may not be a fit for this position.
If a resume / CV tends to focus heavily on risk assessments at a high level (i.e. conducted risk assessments with several users) but does not detail what was involved in those risk assessments, they may not be at a technical level required for this position.
Communication skills are important for this role since they will be interacting with many groups on a global scale. Please screen for strong spoken and written communication
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