Cyber Security Advisor

Role

Cyber Security Advisor

Start date

June 3, 2024

End date

December 31, 2026

Location of Work (Address or City, Province)

Halifax, NS

Remote Work be considered? Yes – Remote OK – may be required on site for 1 week every 2 months

Description

Practicing and implementing cyber security principles based on industry best practices and the risk management framework.

Responsibilities

• Implementation activities include meeting with internal/external stakeholders and clients, conducting workshops, developing document deliverables and preparing/distributing communication material.
• Acquiring technology tools (software, hardware and/or services) by evaluating business needs, assessing available alternatives, and recommending the preferred approach. They will inform and advise the procurement process, including documenting business/technical requirements, preparing Request for Information/Proposal (RFI/RFP) documents, RFP responses and making final selection.
• Creating or updating documentation based on identified cyber security risks and controls and disseminating it.
• Lead and participate in multi-disciplined teams with accountability for scope, communications, and control procedures.
• Translate the business impacts of cyber security requirements to a range of stakeholders in multiple digital service areas and help with the understanding of the cyber security risk.
• Act as an internal consultant to provide expert advice, coaching and mentoring on up-to-date cyber security and risk management methodologies and tools to the program team, business partners, and the vendors.
• Create cyber security documentation, define cyber security key performance indicators, and report on them.
• Create training and awareness elements that periodically educate pertinent internal and external stakeholders on the relevant cyber security risk management standards and processes.
• Monitor the key goals and metrics around cyber security risk management.
• Determine how deviations or problems will be identified, tracked, and reported for remediation by:
• Reporting governance/risk management issues to leadership team, Cyber Security and Enterprise Risk (CSER) division at CSDS, as well as the steering committee or advisory board.
• Monitoring of risk mitigation goals and metrics against targets and review progress with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and collect relevant data to enable effective cyber security-related risk identification, analysis and reporting by:
• Developing and implementing cyber security control monitoring measures to ensure risks are managed to the appropriate level of acceptable residual risk.
• Analyze risks and develop a substantiated view on actual cyber security risk, in support of risk decisions by:
• Conducting risk assessments, including managing the oversight of and/or performing technical risk assessments; managing information asset and application risk assessments; conducting risk reviews for new applications; and managing third-party risk assessments.
• Coordinating information security and risk management project related work with NSH, IWK, CSDS, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinating audit-related tasks such as ensuring the readiness for audit testing and facilitating the timely resolution of any audit findings.
• Communicate information on the current state of cyber security-related exposures and opportunities in a timely manner to all required stakeholders for appropriate response by:
• Reviewing risk assessments and analyzing the effectiveness of cyber security control activities and reporting on them -with actionable recommendations - to the senior leadership.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

• Completion of a University Degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Security.
• 5+ years of experience in cyber security in health sector with a focus on technical security architecture.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in cyber security architecture.
• Experience as a Cyber Security Lead on major projects.
• Working knowledge and experience of cyber security framework and industry standards, such as NIST CSF, NIST 800- 53, CIS, ISO27000 and Payment Card Industry regulations (PCI DSS).
• Advanced knowledge and technical security expertise around IT networks and infrastructure, applications, servers, end points, loT/OT, cloud infrastructure and services etc.
• Experience working within and across remote teams, inter- and intra-organizationally.
• Proven ability to deliver on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, TOGAF, SABSA, ITIL, ISO27001 /2 or equivalent designation(s) is considered an asset.
• Preference given to candidates with the above qualifications with experience in a Nova Scotia or Canadian context.