Digital Security Architect

Location: Remote – must work from Alberta

Contract: 6 months initially, November 2026 to April 2027

Hours: 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day

We’re looking for a senior Digital Security Architect to support a large Legacy Infrastructure Security Stabilization Program .

This is a hands-on architecture role focused on assessing security risks across legacy applications and infrastructure and developing practical solutions to reduce those risks without disrupting critical services.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience across security architecture, infrastructure security, application/network security, AWS and legacy technology environments .

What You’ll Be Doing

- Assess security risks, vulnerabilities and architectural gaps across legacy applications and infrastructure
- Design practical security controls and risk-reduction strategies
- Develop and review security architecture and solution designs
- Recommend approaches for network segmentation, isolation, shielding, remediation, upgrades, replacement and decommissioning
- Design compensating controls when systems cannot be immediately upgraded or replaced
- Evaluate proposed production changes for security risk, operational impact and service continuity
- Identify technical dependencies, constraints and implementation risks
- Develop architecture documentation, technical requirements, security patterns and acceptance criteria
- Document solution options, trade-offs and recommendations
- Work closely with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, application and delivery teams




- Support implementation teams with architecture guidance throughout delivery
- Provide documentation and knowledge transfer for ongoing operational support
- Escalate significant security risks and architecture issues through established governance processes

What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of cybersecurity experience
- Strong experience in security architecture
- Experience securing legacy applications, infrastructure and production environments
- Background with security remediation, stabilization or technology transformation initiatives
- Solid knowledge of network segmentation and isolation
- Application and infrastructure security experience
- Vulnerability assessment and risk treatment/remediation
- Experience designing compensating security controls
- Strong understanding of production change, dependencies, testing, rollback and service continuity
- Experience producing solution designs, architecture decisions, implementation patterns and technical requirements
- Experience with firewalls, IPS, WAF, endpoint security, SIEM and log management
- Strong AWS security architecture experience, ideally including AWS WAF, Security Hub, GuardDuty and Inspector
- Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST CSF and CIS Controls
- Ability to communicate complex security risks and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Certifications & Education A degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field is an asset. Relevant certifications are highly desirable, including:
- CISSP
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- OSCP
- Other relevant cybersecurity or cloud security certifications

📌 Security Architect (Alberta)
🏢 TEEMA
📍 Alberta