Security Platform Engineer Security Automation
Security Platform Engineer Security Automation
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You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues experts in their fields who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.
Job Description:
The successful candidate should have 34 years experience in information technology with a minimum of 3 years experience in the information security field. The candidate will join a growing security platform team working in agile environment. Candidates must have the technical ability to plan deploy and manage a diverse range of security technologies which monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyberattacks.
What will you do:
- Developing automation workflows the successful candidate will develop playbooks to within Splunk SOAR/Ansible environment to triage alert or otherwise automate manual processes.
- The security platform engineer will be responsible for supporting and managing existing security technologies that are currently deployed globally across Sun Life.
- The successful candidate will work on security initiatives and enterprise level projects performing proof of technology/concept asks implementing new security controls and capabilities into existing technologies and be responsible to deploy support and maintain new security technologies and platforms.
- Meet with stakeholders to help refine the requirements for new automation workflows.
- The security platform engineer will be part of a 24x7 oncall support team and be required to join major incident management calls to provide support and consultation for technologies supported by the team.
- Continuously improve upon operational and security platform process activities.
- Smoothly transition and operationalize each project as the implementation phase ends. This includes developing roles & responsibilities (RACI) documents and educating the teams who will be performing BAU (Business as usual) the daytoday work.
- Document update and maintain cyber security playbooks policies and knowledge base articles used to support the established Incident Management and CSIRT processes.
What you need to succeed:
- An Information Technology University degree/college diploma in related discipline(s) or equivalent work experience and/or 5 years experience in Information Technology
- 23 years in security IT industry experience
- Professional designation in IT security (such as CISM CISSP CISA GIAC AWS or CompTIA) preferred.
Preferred skills
- Experience with SOAR tools (Splunk SOAR Cortex XSOAR etc)
- Experience with Ansible development.
- Development experience (Python YAML JavaScript etc)
- Experience planning researching and developing security policies standards and procedures.
- Knowledge of one or more: endpoint detection and response intrusion detection crypto technologies certificate management email security web content filtering technologies cloud security.
- Knowledge of Security Information and Event Management platforms including log types.
- Experience with Windows and Linux based operating systems.
- Experience in deploying enterprise level technology via managed projects.
- Knowledge of networking technologies firewalls web application firewalls and intrusion prevention systems.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies.
- Knowledge of disaster recovery technologies and methods.
- Strong communicator spoken and written with the ability to communicate technical issues to peers and management.
Whats in it for you:
- Were honoured to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work Canada.
- We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their toplevel certification the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work for prioritizing employee wellbeing fostering a positive work culture and achieving excellence in mental health.
- Were proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work Canada.
- 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.
- As a hybrid organization you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work at home or in the office
Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment in accordance with Sun Lifes policies and practices.
The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may email a request to .
At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range:
63000//104 000Job Category:
IT Technology ServicesPosting End Date:
08/04/2025Employment Type
Full-Time
