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Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

The Security Platform

Engineer (Security Visibility) is responsible for assisting the Sr Platform Engineer in planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring security technologies and projects that support Sun Life’s security policies and procedures. Your primary responsibilities will be supporting in-scope Platform and developing use case scenarios, enhancing the security of Sun Life’s corporate and production systems. You will work closely with Enterprise Infrastructure, IT operations, Enterprise Architecture, and application development teams to identify risks to the business and assist in developing security solutions to protect customer and financial information.

The successful candidate must be able to interpret complex information, adapt as needed and have a deep understanding of security risks, data impact and controls to help mitigate the risk and provide countermeasures. The successful candidate is strong in multiple Information Security domains and is expected to lead the efforts to solve complex security problems. Support and manage the SIEM (Splunk Enterprise Security) within our Security Visibility squad Analyze information systems utilizing various cybersecurity techniques and lead security initiatives and enterprise level projects implementing security solutions and performing POC/POV for new technologies.

Responsible to support and maintain new and existing security technologies that are deployed within Sun Life and owned by Security Visibility.. Implement risk driven security controls and provide SME (Subject Matter Expertise) during Audit. Investigate and respond to security incidents, adhering to defined SLA’s.





Identify risks to the business and recommend strategies to address those risks. Manage the capacity and resiliency of security systems protecting Sun Life’s internal and client data. Collaborate and build trust with security peers, vendors, and other Sun Life teams to enhance security posture and best practices.

A change catalyst for Digital transformation, using JIRA, Confluence, estimating stories, setting definition of done, completing and tracking story updates and assignments. Smoothly transition and operationalize projects and products. Document, update and maintain cyber security playbooks, policies and knowledge base articles used to support the established Incident Management and CSIRT processes.

Continuously improve operational and security platform processes.

An Information Technology

University degree/college diploma in related discipline(s) or equivalent work experience. Minimum 2-5 years Information security and engineering experience with enterprise level security technologies in the one or more areas of: Perimeter, Endpoints, Crypto, Cloud, Email Security, Security Visibility, and Automation and Orchestration. Broad exposure to multiple security disciplines and in-depth exposure in Incident Response or Detection Engineering.

Knowledge of a broad range of security controls and risk management frameworks NIST & (ISO) 2700x standards.

Experience with end-point detection and response, intrusion detection, certificate management, email security and web content filtering technologies.

Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures.

Experience in deploying enterprise level technology via managed projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Knowledge of networking technologies, firewalls, web application firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems. Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies.

Technical

Skills – Pursues training and development opportunities; Sound knowledge of security technologies for both Cloud and On Premise.



Pragmatic understanding of security problems, as a mix of technology and process issues, with the ability to pursue solutions at both layers within the organization. Strong oral and written communicator with the ability to communicate security technical issues to peers and management. collects and researches data.

Solid practical knowledge of AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud technologies and services. Solid understanding of existing and emerging Information Security technologies. Self- Starter, strategic thinker in maturing deployed security technologies to ensure full capabilities are explored to meet enterprise security requirements.

The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential. As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office This role requires Reliability Status In addition to a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check, as part of your application, the Government of Canada will ask if you lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months during the last 5 years, and you must account for all activities during this time. Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life’s policies and practices.

In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to [email protected] are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you. We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling. IT - Technology Services Posting End Date

📌 Security Platform Engineer (SIEM) (Toronto)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Toronto