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Security Specialist - Senior

Job in Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listing for: LanceSoft
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-13
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, IT Consultant
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 125000 - 150000 CAD Yearly CAD 125000.00 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

Title:

Security Specialist

Location:

Toronto, ON

Duration: 12 Months

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

The Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (COE) is seeking one (1) Senior Cyber Security Specialists to support in strengthening Ontario’s cyber security infrastructure as the province collectively moves more government programs and services online:

1) Digital Transformation: Transforming through a digital first approach to lower the cost of delivery and make services simpler, faster and better for people, businesses and OPS employees priority

2) Service Delivery Excellence: Driving operational excellence and continuous improvement in the delivery of services and transforming and streamlining delivery models across government with private sector partners.

3) Supporting Businesses: Simplifying Ontario’s regulatory framework and reducing the administrative burden on businesses to make it easier to engage with all of government priority

4) Tabletop Exercise Expertise: Focused on cyber incident response readiness

The role requires the following competencies:

Competencies
  • Technical Security Architecture Design - 25%
    • Provides security design expertise and advice to internal stakeholders on design principles and best practices and the development and implementation of security mechanisms to ensure the protection of information assets of client ministries and compliance with legal requirements, and industry best practices.
  • Security Liaison and Advice - 25%
    • Maintains on-going liaison with IT cyber security staff and senior client ministry program management to facilitate working relationships on all security planning, implementation and management matters by assessing security needs and assisting asset custodians in the identification, design, and implementation of security architecture.
  • Project Management - 25%
    • Leads and/or carries out large scale and sensitive security architecture design projects and/or significant components of other projects with security design elements, to mitigate identified risk to an acceptable level, ensuring compliance and integration with the Enterprise Information Architecture and Cluster architectures; provide supervision/technical direction to teams, coordinate development of design specifications, prepare reports, estimates, and feasibility studies.
  • Communication and Relationship Management Skills - 25%
    • Demonstrated communication, consultative and advisory skills to act as a lead technical resource and provide expertise to ongoing contacts.
  • Must Haves
    • Provides security design expertise and advice to internal stakeholders on design principles and best practices and the development and implementation of security mechanisms to ensure the protection of information assets of client ministries and compliance with legal requirements, and industry best practices.
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    Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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