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Note: This role is a hybrid position with the expectation to work onsite (3) three days a week in the Ericsson office located in Plano, Texas (preferred), Ottawa, Ontario, or Mexico City, Mexico. Relocation is not offered for this position.

About this opportunity

Join our dynamic team at Ericsson Fintech, where you will help build, operate, and evolve one of the world’s largest mobile financial services platforms. Our technology enables hundreds of millions of people every day to access essential financial services such as Professional fluency in English., payments, disbursements, savings, and loans. Learn more about Ericsson Mobile Financial Services

We are looking for an experienced Security Specialist to join a hands‑on security operations team supporting customer production environments. You will help verify secure configurations, apply established security processes, and provide expert support that keeps security standards consistent across live deployments. The role is intended for professional who can take ownership of complex security work, exercise sound risk judgment, and operate independently while engaging the right experts when needed.

What you will do

- Hands‑on security support for production environments, troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and resolution of complex security‑related issues.
- Security point of contact across organizations.




- Review secure configurations across supported deployments and follow up on identified gaps.
- Support, Apply and improve processes related to security.
- Use OS knowledge, scripting, and security tooling to automate checks, collect evidence, improve investigations, and make recurring operational work more reliable.
- Work with encryption protocols, certificates, public‑key infrastructure, key‑management practices, and hardware security modules (HSMs) in production security operations.
- Maintain and improve runbooks, operational procedures, security findings, knowledge articles, and lessons learned.
- Identify opportunities to improve security posture, process adherence, and lead or contribute to prioritized improvement.

Location (Hybrid): Plano, TX is preferred. Will consider Ottawa, Ontario or Mexico City for the right qualified candidate. No sponsorship or relocation is offered for this role. The application deadline is October 22,2026.

The skills you bring

You must have:

- At least 5 years hands‑on experience in security operations, platform security, or a closely related technical security role.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in live production environments and investigate problems methodically from symptoms through root cause and corrective action.
- Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or security tooling in distributed production environments.
- Strong knowledge of OS,



including Linux, hardening, permissions, services, processes, and system logs.
- Knowledge of encryption protocols and security technologies, such as TLS, PKI, certificates, SSH, IPsec, key management, and hardware security modules (HSMs).
- A clear sense of ownership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security topics to both specialists and non-specialist stakeholders.
- Professional fluency in English.

It would be nice if you also have:

- Practical scripting experience, such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
- Experience with SIEM platforms and security monitoring.
- Working knowledge of IAM, Vulnerability and Compliance Management.
- Strong investigation, analytical, and risk‑assessment skills, with the judgment to distinguish urgent production risk from lower‑priority improvement opportunities.
- Confidence working across organizational boundaries in a multinational and cross‑functional environment.

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding chance. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Equal Opportunity

Ericsson uses a merit‑based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets. We truly believe this approach drives innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage

📌 Security Specialist (Ottawa)
🏢 Ericsson
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