Information Security Consultant

We are seeking a Information Security Consultant to join our client's team. We need a highly skilled and adaptable professional to support a diverse range of technology-driven projects across our organization. This is a dynamic role where you'll apply your expertise in a fast-paced environment, working with various teams and leaders to deliver successful outcomes.

Advantages

• Opportunity to lead and shape the modernization of platforms.

• Collaborative environment working closely with stakeholders from various business areas and Information Management & Technology team.

• Chance to develop and implement cutting-edge solutions

• Platform to showcase excellent presentation skills by regularly updating and engaging with project stakeholders and IT leadership.

• Contribution to meaningful work

Responsibilities

• Review enterprise architectures, network designs, and cloud deployments to derive required security controls and identify design risks, compliance gaps, and remediation recommendations.

• Develop secure architecture patterns, configuration standards, design documents, and operational runbooks aligned with regulatory requirements and industry frameworks
Lead or support security incident response activities, including investigation, containment, root-cause analysis, recovery coordination, and post-incident reporting.

• Develop and maintain incident playbooks, escalation procedures, evidence collection guidelines, and integration

• Provide guidance during critical incidents, communicate business impacts to leadership, ensure lessons learned are documented, and drive the implementation of corrective actions to reduce recurrence and improve organizational readiness.

• Work with cross-functional IT, business, and vendor teams to ensure secure solution implementation and adherence to enterprise security policies.

Qualifications
Have minimum of 10 years hands-on Information Security experience in roles involving security engineering, security architecture or security operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CCIE.

• Proven experience leading or contributing to enterprise security projects involving technology integration, process enhancement, or control implementation.

• Experience in configuring, deploying, managing, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) platforms (e.g. Microsoft Defender, Sentinel One).

• Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling, lifecycle processes, remediation validation, and reporting (e.g., Qualys, Veracode).

• Experience in Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) capabilities, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) inspection, threat prevention, content filtering, micro-segmentation, application control, and network policy tuning.

• Experience in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) use cases, tuning, threathunting integration, and log onboarding (e.g. Splunk, Sentinel, Sumo Logic).

• Experience in Cloud and Hybrid Security technologies, with hands-on understanding of native controls (e.g. Azure Defender).

• Extensive experience in Intrusion Prevention and Detection (IPS/IDS) including deployment, tuning, ruleset management, and vendor-agnostic architectures.

• Working knowledge of regulatory and security frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Controls, PCI-DSS, PIPEDA/FOIP, HIPA/PHI).

• Experience with threat intelligence, security analytics, deep-learning or machine-learning-based detection and SIEM use cases.

Summary
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