Senior Specialist Security
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At Ontario Health we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity inspiration tenacity humility and care.
What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
Fully paid medical dental and vision coverage from your first day
a health care spending or wellness spending account
a premium defined benefit pension plan
three personal days and two float days annually
three weeks vacation to start (for individual contributors) increasing to four weeks after two years
career development opportunities
a collaborative valuesbased team culture
a wellness program
a hybrid working model
participation in Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career Consider this opportunity.
The Senior Specialist Security will work with various teams within Ontario Health and with its health sector partners to ensure the timely efficient and quality delivery of Cyber Security products and services. They will contribute to the assessment development and maturing of OHs information security programs and serve as a security subject matter expert to the organization. The Senior Specialist Security typically is an individual contributor that takes a leading role in various security governance and operational initiatives by providing security expertise facilitating collaboration and furthering the organizations objectives.
Here is what you will be doing:
- Identifies and recommends security controls and solutions as well as the tactical approaches to deliver them for product/services/and assessment initiatives that meet projects and customer needs and timelines while adhering to overall OH security frameworks and approved methodologies and patterns.
- Consults on and advises and influences product/portfolio project planning by identifying security by design and significant for products in a holistic approach to ensure end products and services are aligned with OH Security program requirements.
- Assesses and identifies crossproduct security control gaps and opportunities for mitigation and alignment with the security policies and standards and industry best practices and advocates for solutions to address security gaps with product owners before releasing them to production.
- Analyzes proposed solution architectures technology design and IT development processes to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities and to recommend options that enhance the security of solutions and business processes. Identifies analyzes and recommends options for risk management at appropriate levels within the enterprise and the health care sector.
- Supports the development of roadmaps program and product vision.
- Provides guidance on how to build and deploy secure solutions or placing compensating controls for business and technical challenges.
- Identifies dependencies in project and product deliverables and provides guidance for planning and delivery.
- Influences and guides senior and lead developers IT Operations and Service Desk and Architects related to Security requirements vision best practices and principles.
- Delivers internal security consulting services.
- Works with a high level of autonomy in setting objectives based on minimal direction from management.
- Collaborates with internal peers and local programs to ensure alignment of security practices controls patterns and solutions to mitigate identified risks and gaps.
- Stays current on security landscape and threat vectors and assesses new security trends with respect to Ontario Healths business needs and identifies opportunities to improve the security posture of products and services and on business technology architecture and solution design trends.
- Stays abreast of provincial federal and international security attack tools Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and secure operating trends.
- Guides and influences project team to align and build with an eye to OHs Information Security approved frameworks and methodology.
- Develops maintains and evolves relationships with external organizations and communities of practice. toward the betterment of Ontario Health Ontario and Canada wide health system cyber security practice.
- Guides and influences portfolios partners and health sector entities to align solutions and services to Ontario Healths digital and cyber security vision considering provincial national and international mandates.
- Collaborates with and guides and mentors senior junior and peer security specialists.
- Coaches developers IT operations and architects about latest security threats and landscape and well as introducing tools and techniques as needed controls for securing OH digital assets data and operation.
- Identifies opportunities impacts and transformations required to realize their value and assess their implications on the future state of specific products or portfolios.
- Frames information and communicates in a highrisk environment where information sharing to demonstrate transparency and trust is closely balanced with the reputational and liability risks of not sharing the appropriate information to the right audience or at the right time.
- Provides subject matter expertise in various provincial and regional cyber security governance and risk management initiatives.
- Consults with members and organizations in the health care community to implement security policies and related controls and to onboard them to regional and provincial health care initiatives.
- Tracks the implementation and remediation activities across organizations.
- Coordinates internal and external information security initiatives as a subject matter expert to reach feasible security solutions for complex problems and issues across the health care sector. Plays a leading role in the implementation and operationalization of those solutions.
- Contributes to the ongoing development and maturing of the OH security program consulting and assurance practices.
- Implements tools and processes to manage workflow and materials related to the information security governance.
- Prepares and maintains securitytraining materials deliver securitytraining sessions to various stakeholders throughout the province and within the organization.
- Manages multiple clients and security related projects simultaneously and presents status updates to upper management.
- Works with IT Development and all other OH Enterprise teams to establish appropriate security processes controls and ensure compliance with security policies.
- Takes a leading role in various OH security initiatives providing security expertise facilitating collaboration and furthering OHs security objectives.
- Operates and monitors various state of the art tools to detect prevent and mitigate cyber security threats or risks to OH.
- Works with internal and external (regional partner and vendor) stakeholders.
- Collaborates with members within OH and with the provincial and federal level cyber security counterparts to support OH and the healthcare sector from cyber threats.
- Makes decisions where results have a major impact across the organization requiring on the fly recommendations to the project teams developers and IT operations while following the overall OH approved and Industry best practices.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- 68 years of overall working experience in technology/digital/systems roles.
- 35 of it working experience in security technologies principles risk management vulnerability management monitoring and incident response program development and architecture.
- Extensive experience with CheckPoint S.M.A.R.T. architecture (must have).
- Working exp Experience with Wireless technologies including supporting RADIUS infrastructure.
- Experience in Azure Security including Azure Security Center.
- Experience with Wireless technologies including supporting RADIUS infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of IPSEC VPN tunnel creation and troubleshooting.
- Strong troubleshooting skills of traffic flows with encrypted and unencrypted traffic.
- Experience with Firewall Audit and Compliance Tools like Tufin or Algosec preferred.
- Certifications in cyber security (e.g. CISSP or CISA) are required or working towards.
- Experience conducting and leading Cyber Security Readiness assessments business process analysis continuous improvement process redesign.
- Experience evaluating existing cyber security performance establishing cyber security KPIs applying performance methodologies.
- Experience in security governance development Policies Standards Procedures.
- Experience with change management including design preparation and maintenance of security training materials proven ability to deliver security training sessions to various stakeholders within healthcare and at different scales.
- Experience influencing negotiating and building positive relationships within the team and external parties.
- Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools including SharePoint & Teams Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server.
- Strong knowledge and experience in the Evaluation and Synthesis of security risk using methodologies such as HTRA and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2 and NIST CSF. Expert understanding of risk assessment methodologies such as HTRA and CSF and frameworks such as ISO 27001/2and NIST.
- Knowledge of security architecture
- Strong understanding of Security Architectural and Design concepts for products and services within Ontario Health and partners (e.g. Hospitals).
- Evaluation of systems knowledge and experience developing and working with security architecture and IT management frameworks such as SABSA and CoBIT.
- Experience conducting security risk assessments and threat modelling.
- Broad knowledge of TRA methodologies and other risk assessment methodologies and tools and familiarity with related security tests and test methodologies
- Broad Understanding of typical security threats vulnerabilities and safeguards relevant to application development test and QA environments and IT (datacenter) operations.
- Strong understanding of laws regulations policies and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy. e.g. PHIPA.
- Knowledge of a wide variety of information systems and security technologies including Operating Systems security LAN and WAN Internet protocols and applications secure communications firewalls IDS/IPS PKI identity management identification and authentication techniques rolebased access control malware defenses etc.
- Knowledge and experience on a wide variety of information systems and security technologies including Operating Systems security Cloud Security SIEM SOAR EDR Email Security Firewalls Container Security Secure SDLC etc.
- Experience in leading endtoend planning architecture solution development and of program activities.
Knowledge and Skills
- Superior problemsolving and analytical skills to prioritize rapidly changing incidents investigating and troubleshooting; track implementation/remediation activities.
- Superior communication skills both orally and in writing to interpret and communicate risk management concepts; listen facilitate and communicate complex content and material to large and diverse audiences; understand and discuss technical concepts; develop securityrelated tools policies training and other material; build strong relationships with clients.
- Ability to motivate other team members to achieve higher goals and improve the impact of technology initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic innovative ideas with internal and external partners.
- Able to quickly learn new technologies and support new projects and initiatives in a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to perform under extreme degrees of pressure during live security incidents.
- Ability to develop policies plans standards assessments and strategies in compliance with legislation policies and standards in support of organizational cyber activities.
- Strong ability to work in collaborative planning consensus building and influence between stakeholder with diverse interests.
- Adept at managing tradeoffs and evaluating opportunities for innovation with internal and external partners.
- Ability to support cyber security incident response and oncall rotations.
- Ability to engage with clients with competing priorities and sometimes in political settings which can have heavy impact and load on the emotions and become stressful that would require professional and personal soft skills to handle such situations properly.
- Ability to make decisions where results have a major impact across the organization.
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Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)
Employment Type:
Permanent Full timeContract Length:
N/ASalary Band:
Band 6External Application Deadline Date:
May 14 2025All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations Mtis Inuit and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members ofBlack and racializedgroups; 2SLGBTQIA communities; trans and nonbinary individuals;and people living with disabilities.
Ontario Health is an accessible employer and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process please email and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
