Sr Cyber Security Consultant

Job Title: Sr Cyber Security Consultant

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
    
Estimated Duration: 12 Months

As a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, you will be part of Application Security Risk Assessments team within Cybersecurity. The Application Security Risk Assessment team performs threat modelling of applications and technology designs as part of SDLC and risk management process. This individual will also provide consulting to technology groups as needed to build secure applications and associated technologies in hybrid cloud environments. As a senior member of the team, you will have an opportunity to take collaborative approach in maturing threat modeling practices, identify relevant security threats, associated risks to business technologies and help enable secure business objectives. In addition, you will play a key role to ensure the function is aligning with industry leading practices and look for opportunities to enhance the function via tooling and refining methodologies and processes through automation along with force multiplier duties such as the following:

• Perform and deliver high quality security assessment/threat modeling artifacts.
• Continuously keep apprised of business technology practices and relevant threats, current and emerging and work with other Cybersecurity and technology teams to identify appropriate controls and mentor other team members.
• Conduct product/capability evaluations as needed and lead initiatives to improve internally developed tooling.
• Lead initiatives to present and evangelize security practices across technology organization.
• Thrives in cross-functional collaboration with other Cybersecurity areas and key technology groups to identify common controls, potential risk reducing opportunities in technology projects and contribute to improve application security posture.
• Continuously keep abreast of new industry technology trends, associated risks and their mitigation practices in new, frameworks, cloud services, generative AI application designs, various language models, modern data store platforms etc.

 
Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity with 5+ years in application security or security architecture
• Advanced level working knowledge in application architectures in hybrid cloud environments(e.g., SPA, microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) and performing their security design reviews using threat modeling methodology or performing related architecture risk analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of OWASP, CWE or MITRE Att&ck and its applicability to performing security assessments and recommending defensive strategies.
• Expert level working experience with modern authentication and authorization frameworks, protocols (e.g., OAuth/OIDC, WebAuthn), security risk management practices, writing/building effective artifacts as well as communicating to stake holders.
• Practical knowledge of securing applications using Generative AI and Large Language Models.
• Expert level analytical skills along with communication and negotiations skills, both verbal and written.
• Working experience in agile methodologies, as well as prior experience in software development or automating solutions using code.
• Is empathetic and has passion to solve problems and always maintains high integrity.
• Prior experience in 2 or more other security domains, e.g., ethical hacking, cloud security, security architecture domains (e.g., Application, Network, Platform) is preferred.
• Industry certifications such as CISM, CISSP, GIAC
• Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information System