Consultant managing complex cybersecurity projects remotely for Optiv in Vancouver. Establishing relationships and leading technology deployment in business continuity and resilience.
Responsibilities
This position will be fully remote and will be located in Vancouver, BC
Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team.
Deliver timely engagements and works closely with Practice Directors to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team
Confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.
Lead in capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts.
Lead in all Technology deployment activities, connector configuration, custom rule development, workflow configuration and development, and third-party system integration.
Lead in business impact analysis, risk analysis, recovery planning efforts.
Lead User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.
Design, implement and educate on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use.
Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary.
Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree and approximately 5-7 years of related work experience.
Approximately 4-7 years of technical architecture experience
Desirable experience within one or more of the following Security Architecture and/or Enterprise Architectural Frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF, O-ESA).
Knowledge of general security concepts and methods such as vulnerability assessments, data classification, privacy assessments, incident response, security policy creation, enterprise security strategies, architectures and governance.
Working knowledge of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery or IT Service Continuity planning.
Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI model), operating system fundamentals (Windows, UNIX, mainframe), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.) and application programming/scripting languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell).
Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance issues affecting clients related to privacy and data protection, such as PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection Directive, International Cross Border, OSFI and U.S. State Data Privacy Laws.
Working knowledge of operating systems, virtual machine environments, mainframe security packages, and relational database management systems.
Willingness to travel to meet client needs; The successful candidate must hold related professional certifications such as the CISSP, CISM, and/or CISA.
Benefits
Work/life balance
Professional training resources
Volunteer Opportunities
"Optiv Chips In" encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
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