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Description:
- The clientenvisions a senior cybersecurity advisor positioned in a business advisorycapacity rather than technical execution, capable of influencing managers,project leads, and vice presidents without having direct authority over them.
- Therecurring keywords (support, advise, raise awareness, influence, businessportfolio, governance) indicate a cross-functional subject matter expert roleintegrated into transformation programs, not an operational security position.
- Theimplicit expectation of the mandate is strong crisis management and executive communicationskills: the candidate must be able to present risk scenarios to a crisiscommittee and vice presidents, which implies prior advisory experiencevalidated at this level of stakeholders.
- The broadrange of technical domains listed (architecture, cloud computing, IAM,DevSecOps, APIs, containerization) describes the required cross-functionalunderstanding, not deep hands-on expertise in each area.
- This roleshould not be confused with a security architect, SOC analyst, or DevSecOpsengineer: those are technical execution profiles, whereas this mandate is anadvisory and risk governance role tied to a specific business portfolio.
Requirements
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity,software engineering, information systems, or a related field
- 8 to 12 years of experience in information technology,including a minimum of 5 years in cybersecurity, technology risk management, orsecurity governance
- Significant experience supporting projects, programs, ortransformation initiatives
- Experience in risk analysis and integrating cybersecurityinto business processes
- Advanced French and English, both spoken and written
Desired:
- Cross-functional knowledge of technical domains: solutionarchitecture, cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), IAM/IGA/PAM, networking andperimeter security, API security, containerization, vulnerability managementand privileged access management, incident detection and response, dataprotection
- Participation in large-scale projects involving digital orcloud technologies
- Communication experience with governance bodies, committees,or management
Asset:
- Knowledge of artificial intelligence and emerging technologyrisks
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