Security Architect - On-site

The Infrastructure Security Specialist / Security Architect bridges cybersecurity architecture and infrastructure operations. In this role, you will evaluate operational environments, identify critical security gaps, and design robust cyber security controls across hybrid infrastructure.

By pairing architectural expertise with hands-on operational context, the successful candidate will contextualize and prioritize remediation opportunities against established control frameworks and organizational risk tolerance. This role collaborates directly with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, and network operations teams to guide remediation designs, author comprehensive architectural blueprints, and ensure core infrastructure meets strict industry security and compliance baselines.

Advantages
Long-term contract with the strong potential for extensions

Competitive market rates

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Security Solution Architecture & Operations Advisory
Review, assess, and prioritize existing infrastructure security gaps across server, storage, data center, and network environments.

Provide pragmatic security guidance, architecture patterns, and technical oversight for remediation solutions designed and implemented by Operations teams.

Conduct threat-and-risk assessments (TRAs) on proposed architectures, network topology changes, and infrastructure enhancements to proactively mitigate vulnerabilities.

Translate enterprise security policies, governance frameworks, and compliance standards into actionable, engineering-level operational requirements.

Technical Governance & Architecture Artifacts
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Engineering, and Operations teams to maintain alignment with technology roadmaps and future-state reference architectures.

Define predictable, reusable security design patterns, hardening standards, and security baselines for compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms.

Participate in project discovery, requirements gathering, and technical design review forums with cross-functional technical teams.

Required Deliverables
Conceptual Solution Designs (CSD): Author discovery artifacts, preliminary threat models, core infrastructure planning documents, and high-level architectural visions.

Detailed Solution Designs (DSD): Produce end-to-end security architecture documentation covering integration points, identity/data flows, zone segmentation, firewall/access controls, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Technical Specification Documents (TSD): Formulate detailed technical requirements, equipment/software specifications, network configurations, encryption standards, and step-by-step implementation criteria for deployment teams.

Advisory & Consulting Records: Deliver actionable gap analyses, risk context memos, and security review sign-offs for operational systems.

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience
Education & Professional Background
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent practical industry experience.

5+ years of combined experience spanning infrastructure engineering/operations and security architecture.

Demonstrable track record of authoring formal design artifacts (CSDs, DSDs, TSDs) and guiding operations teams through execution.

Summary
If you're an experienced Security Architect with a strong background in Networking/IT Infrastructure and can work on-site in Regina, apply today!

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