Hybrid Senior Security Platform Engineer – Security

at Sun Life

• Job title: Senior Security Platform Engineer – Security
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Senior Security Platform Engineer enhancing security technologies and processes at Sun Life. Involves collaboration with various teams to lead security solutions for customer and financial information.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Security Platform Engineer is responsible for effectively planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring security technologies and projects that support Sun Life’s security policies and procedures.
• Supporting in Scope Platform and Products and developing use case scenarios, enhancing the security of Sun Life’s corporate and production systems.
• Work closely with Enterprise Infrastructure, IT operations, Enterprise Architecture, and application development teams to identify risks to the business and lead security solutions to protect customer and financial information.
• Analyze information systems utilizing various cybersecurity techniques and lead security initiatives and enterprise level projects implementing security solutions and performing POC/POV for new technologies.
• Responsible to deploy, support and maintain new and existing security technologies that are deployed within Sun Life and owned and supported by the team.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents, adhering to defined SLA’s.
• Identify risks to the business and recommend strategies to address those risks.
• Collaborate and build trust with security peers, vendors, and other Sun Life teams to enhance security posture and best practices.
• Document, update and maintain cyber security playbooks, policies and knowledge base articles used to support the established Incident Management and CSIRT processes.
• Lead key security projects, including large-scale migrations, upgrades, and the introduction of new Akamai features or services.

Requirements

• An Information Technology University degree/college diploma in related discipline(s) or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5-7 years Information security and engineering experience with enterprise level security technologies in one or more areas of: Perimeter, Endpoints, Crypto, Cloud, Email Security, Security Visibility, and Automation and Orchestration
• Minimum 3 year experience in successfully leading global information security projects
• Preferred: Certification(s) in data network engineering and/or security: CCNP/CCNP-Security, CCSP, CISSP, GIAC-GCIA, GIAC-GCED, Comptia, or equivalent security certification
• Experience in managing 3rd party security service providers in delivering security services
• Broad exposure to multiple security disciplines and in-depth exposure in Incident Response or Detection Engineering
• Knowledge of a broad range of security controls and risk management frameworks NIST & (ISO) 2700x standards
• Strong oral and written communicator with the ability to communicate security technical issues to peers and management.

Benefits

• Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
• Hybrid work arrangements allowing flexibility to work remotely or in the office