Senior Cyber Security Specialist

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Respect, Innovation, Teamwork, and Accountability

The Ontario Financing Authority (OFA) is seeking a dedicated professional who thrives in a collaborative and evolving work environment. As a key member of the Technology and Security team, you will contribute innovative ideas and play a direct role in ensuring the OFA is well-positioned to meet future technology advancements and cyber security challenges.

We are a supportive and motivated team, driven by our commitment to technology excellence, cyber security best practices, strong collaboration, and a positive, inclusive work culture.

Learn more about OFA values and divisions.

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About the job

As a key member of our team, you'll play a hands-on role in shaping and modernizing our cyber security environment. You'll lead complex initiatives, solve meaningful problems, and make a visible impact across the organization. In this role, you will:

• drive cyber resilience and cloud security modernization by shaping how we defend, detect, and respond; turning strategy into secure, scalable solutions that protect critical services.
• lead high visibility cyber security initiatives with hands-on senior technical leadership; aligning stakeholders, removing blockers, and delivering measurable improvements.
• strengthen security operations and incident response by advancing processes, playbooks, and capabilities that help the organization respond quickly and confidently.
• partner on architecture and security reviews to ensure solutions are secure by design and aligned with enterprise direction.
• evolve security architecture and IT governance to enable planning, design, delivery, and implementation of cyber security and cloud architecture for complex, large-scale I&IT programs.

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What you bring to the team

Information technology and security knowledge

You have knowledge of and experience with:
• cyber security and cloud fundamentals (principles, methodologies, mechanisms, and techniques)
• infrastructure technologies (products, services, and troubleshooting across modern environments)
• security governance and risk (controls, processes, threats, and risk concepts)
• network defense and cloud technologies (systems, tools, and techniques)
• threat landscape and attack techniques (common and advanced methods used to compromise I&IT services)
• cloud adoption approaches that support secure deployment, migration, and workload adoption

Research, analytical and problem-solving skills

You have the ability to:
• research emerging trends in cyber security and cloud infrastructure (solutions, technologies, methodologies, and techniques)
• investigate complex issues to identify root causes, evaluate risk, and recommend practical mitigations
• provide strategic advice that strengthens cyber security programs and improves organizational posture
• stay current on leading practices and translate new developments into actionable recommendations
• assess security exposures across platforms, applications, identities, networks, and cloud services

Leadership and project management skills

You can:
• apply project management practices to plan, track, and deliver work in complex environments
• lead teams and influence stakeholders by setting direction, coaching others, and managing conflict constructively
• provide risk-based guidance on business planning and coordination to support secure delivery

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

You can:
• communicate clearly and credibly using strong oral and written skills, including negotiation, consultation, and advisory techniques
• tailor messages to your audience—from executive and non-technical stakeholders to technical teams
• build strong relationships with internal and external partners to move work forward

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Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

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How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer  accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please  contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

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Additional information:

Note:

• About security checks:
  A criminal or other federal offence record does not automatically disqualify you from the position. We consider each situation based on the position's responsibilities.
  If a check is needed and you've lived outside of Canada in the past 5 years for 6 or more months in a row, or if you are not a Canadian resident, you'll need to provide an out-of-country police clearance certificate from the country you lived in.
  Employment screening checks are only reviewed and evaluated by the Transition and Security Office, which also maintains them and keeps them strictly confidential.
• The information that you provide for the purpose of this competition and the results from this competition may be used to fill other positions. These positions may be of various tenures including short-term assignments. Your information and the results from this competition will be retained for the purpose of filling vacancies in accordance with the applicable collective agreement or policy provisions.
• W-FI-241187/26

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How to apply:

1. You must apply online.
2. Your cover letter and resume combined should not exceed five (5) pages. For tips and tools on how to write a concise cover letter and resume, review the Writing a Cover Letter and Resume: Tips, Tools and Resources.
3. Customize your cover letter and resume to the qualifications listed on the job ad. Using concrete examples, you must show how you demonstrated the requirements for this job. We rely on the information you provide to us.
4. Read the job description to make sure you understand this job.
5. OPS employees are required to quote their WIN EMPLOYEE ID number when applying.
6. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please Contact Us to provide your contact information. Recruitment services team will contact you within 48 hours.

Language requirements and assessment:
All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matière de langue et évaluation:
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichées en français et en anglais. Consultez la section « Langue du ou des postes » en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaître les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont évalués en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/français), vous devrez également passer un test de compétences linguistiques en français.