Job Details: Information Security officer
| Job Title: | Information Security officer |
| Job ID: | 1769 |
| Company: | People First Hr Services |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Negotiable |
| Date Posted: | Aug-21-08 |
Information Security Officer
Our client is a national financial services industry leader and a leading provider of benefits and retirement services for Canadians. Our client offers an outstanding combination of career opportunities, work-life balance, limited-to-no travel and flexible employee benefits.
Reporting to the Career Centre Manager, the Information Security Officer is the primary contact for information security for the locations/companies support. The ISO will implement sound information security governance and respond to information security related incidents. The position has the following Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
• Conduct security risk assessments and identify security solutions to ensure transparent risk awareness to support critical decision making
• Collaborate with ISO members to develop information security policies and standards for all companies by using different business strategies to meet key business partner and client expectations
• Recommend security compliance and remediation for technology processes and services
• Work with ISO members and the CISO to develop and implement an ongoing and evolving enterprise security awareness and training program
• Implement and maintain awareness of security/privacy industry to keep up to date with best practices, trends, technologies and regulatory requirements
• Actively monitor and assess vulnerabilities and exploits for major security incidents for specific locations/companies
• Make critical decisions and take appropriate actions in a decisive and timely manner.
• Report recommendations for security risks and communicate with senior level I.S.
• Implement and develop security strategy, plans and budgets under direction of CISO for specific locations/companies
• Perform staff management functions for direct reports, as assigned
As the ideal candidate you have
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 7 -- 10 years as an information technology practitioner or an I.S. audit function, with at least 5 years in a role related to information security
• Experience in risk assessment
• Excellent communication and successful negotiation skills
• Strong analytical ability with skilled decision making
• Proven leadership skills and are a self starter
• Ability to effectively manage change and stress
• A completed or working Information Security Certificate
• Knowledge of information security issues in major operating system platform, application development environment and security subsystems in use within Corporations: MVS, MS Windows, Solaris, HP-UX AIX, OS400, Checkpoint Firewall, Directory Services (AD/Tivoli), IDS/IPS, anti-virus, VPN, encryption, PKI, secure email, mobile computing, secure e-business systems etc
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory and legislated matter pertaining to information security would be an asset
• Experience in developing business cases, information security strategy, policy and standards development
| Location: [rss] | Canada-MB-Winnipeg |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Ian Trump |
| Contact Phone: | (204) 940-3946 |
| Contact Email: | itrump@peoplefirsthr.com |
| URL: | http://www.peoplefirsthr.com/careers |
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| Should this exceptional opportunity be of interest to you, please forward your MS Word format resume, quoting file #1769. | |
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