Senior Information Security Specialist
Role Overview
The Senior Information Security Specialist is part of CIBC’s CTPR team and consults on information security risks and trends.
The role partners with business and technology teams to identify risks and recommend practical, achievable actions.
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Role overview
The Senior Information Security Specialist is part of CIBC’s CTPR team and consults on information security risks and trends.
The role partners with business and technology teams to identify risks and recommend practical, achievable actions.
Work arrangement
- Hybrid arrangement with 1–3 days per week onsite and remaining days remote.
What you’ll do
- Review requirements documentation, architecture diagrams, and solution designs to assess feasibility and security risk.
- Recommend action plans and coordinate risks under control and deficiency management policies.
- Complete project security assessments before production go-live.
- Present risk documentation and recommendations to executive management.
- Participate in security assessment process implementation and respond to business-unit queries.
- Conduct threat-risk and information security assessments, manage deviations, and coordinate penetration testing and reporting.
- Conduct threat models, set priorities, and recommend controls to reduce risks.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and business teams on practical, risk-based security decisions.
- Partner with subsidiary and affiliate stakeholders on control assessments and integration plans.
- Work with first-line centers of excellence on control enhancements and new controls.
Qualifications and experience
- Experience in information security, threat-risk assessments, vulnerability and penetration testing, and application security development projects.
- Familiarity with the banking ecosystem and cloud computing technologies is an asset.
- Exposure to Agile development processes is an asset.
- CISSP, Offensive Security/CEH, CASE-E-Council, or CSSLP certifications are assets but not mandatory.
- Work with cybersecurity control owners, architects, and engineers to develop integration plans and deliverables.
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