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Consultant, Cloud IT Risk Assessment

  • Location: Toronto, ON
  • Project Type: Information Technology (IT)

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: 6 Months 

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Consultant, Cloud IT Risk Assessment, to collaborate with senior leaders to ensure alignment of Global Cyber Security initiatives. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

A typical day involves developing and maintaining IT Risk scorecards that provide comprehensive visibility into the organization’s cloud and infrastructure risk posture. The role includes conducting stakeholder consultations to review and analyze critical artifacts such as vulnerability assessments, control evaluations, and architecture documentation to identify and assess risk exposure.

Key daily activities include delivering weekly scorecard presentations to senior leadership. These presentations are instrumental in enabling risk-informed decision-making by executive stakeholders prior to application deployment to production environments. This role requires strong analytical capabilities, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to communicate complex risk concepts to diverse audiences at all organizational levels.

What will you do?

  • Create IT Risk scorecards for Non-Cloud and Public Cloud application initiatives and communicate risks to key stakeholders
  • Establish and build credibility with stakeholders and senior leaders in order to provide representation that is seen as professional, positive and credible.
  • Work in collaboration as a trusted partner to ensure that projects are planned, managed and executed in alignment with the functional strategy and goals.
  • Seek industry trends and organization knowledge to ensure a high level of technical currency and understand alternative approaches.
  • Collaborate with senior leaders to ensure alignment of Global Cyber Security initiatives.
  • Manage risks, leveraging support from the bank SMEs and escalating to Global IT Risk (GITR) leadership as required.

Must Have Skills:

  • Prior work within cloud teams in other FIs
  • Can speak risk management to application owners (might be non-technical) and Senior Management
  • Certs: CISSP, CRISC, CCSK or CCSP
  • Minimum 7 or more years demonstrated experience in Cyber Security
  • Knowledge of Cyber Security Frameworks and Cloud Security Frameworks
  • Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
  • Information Security and Public Cloud platform certification is an asset (AZ-500, SCS-C01,CCSP, CCSK, CISSP)
  • Knowledge of government and regulatory requirements as it relates to data information management, including emerging trends and issues related to the subject matter.
  • Ability to partner effectively with key stakeholders on complex projects with excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
  • Clear understanding of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, including containerization (AKS/EKS)
  • Knowledge of OWASP, SANS, NIST, ISO 27001, CSA, CIS or other security-related practices
  • Application Security or Development experience (SAST, DAST, CICD Pipeline, Infrastructure-as-Code)
  • Knowledge of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Elastic search and Kafka

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Experience implementing AI technologies organizations
  • Certs: Certs from MS Azure or AWS
  • Previous Banking/Financial Industry experience
  • Knowledge of PCI, SOX, SOC 2, or OSFI requirements and best practices

Soft Skills Required:

  • Must have: Professional Writing and speaking, public speaking

Education:

  • Highest Education

FP Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. In accordance with the requirements set out in the Employment Standards Act, FP Inc. hereby declares that AI is utilized in the screening process for this position. The hourly compensation range for this role is $100/hr -$128/hr. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities, and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.