Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

Description:

The City of Regina is transforming, and you have an opportunity to influence its journey! If you are a bold thinker and thrive on bravely “unboxing” how we work today and creatively designing tomorrow, we are looking for you!
Our Transformation Office team drives large-scale transformation opportunities and incremental service improvements through four pillars: digital, innovation, big data, and resident experience.
We recognize Cybersecurity as a key factor of the City’s successful transformation. The Senior Cybersecurity Specialist is a strategic position responsible for building a strong cybersecurity culture and posture throughout the organization.
Our team is diverse, dynamic, and fun. We value our employees and their work-life balance. We cultivate and nurture a collaborative team culture where employees can grow and thrive together. Join us! Duties & Responsibilities
Reporting to the Enterprise Architect and having staunch support from all levels of leadership, you will perform senior level duties required to improve and sustain the City’s cybersecurity posture and assists in resolving cybersecurity issues that are diverse and complex in nature. In addition, you work both proactively and strategically to protect enterprise information assets from intentional or accidental destruction or modification. You lead the design, implementation, maintenance, and review of effective security controls including policies, standards, guidelines, processes, and procedures.

You will be responsible for:
Entrenching new cybersecurity and transformational practices within the organization by leading the Cybersecurity Awareness program
Disrupting through influence, including challenging the status quo at all levels across the organization
Leading Cybersecurity Strategy and development of Cybersecurity Roadmaps.
Participating in the planning and design of enterprise security architecture.
Leading, advising and consulting on management responses, action plans and remediation activities for security incident response including virus, malware, and Cybersecurity events.
Contributing to projects as an information security subject matter expert, analyzing solutions, processes & infrastructure, and recommending appropriate information security controls.
Leading the planning and management of security policies and systems for the technical infrastructure environment that will prevent, detect, and audit unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, or any other abuse of the City’s technological resources.
Providing specialized consultation to identify, investigate, report, and resolve security related issues liaising with Internal and External Audits, Information Management, Legal and HR.
Maintaining working relationships with external entities such as local and federal law enforcement, and other government agencies.