Security Platform Engineer (Akamai Security)

at  Sun Life

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The successful candidate should have 3-4 years experience in information technology with a minimum of 3 years experience in the information security field. The candidate will join a growing security platform team working in agile environment. Candidates must have the technical ability to plan, deploy and manage a diverse range of security technologies which monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks.

ADDITIONAL/PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience with one or more: end-point detection and response, intrusion detection, crypto technologies, certificate management, email security, web content filtering technologies, cloud security.
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management platforms including log types.
• Experience designing secure networks and endpoint systems.
• Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Experience in a system administration role supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Experience with Windows and Linux based operating systems.
• Experience in deploying enterprise level technology via managed projects.
• Knowledge of networking technologies, firewalls, web application firewalls and intrusion prevention systems.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, technologies, and methods.
• Strong communicator spoken and written with the ability to communicate technical issues to peers and management.

• The security platform engineer will be responsible for supporting and managing existing security technologies that are currently deployed globally across Sun Life.
• The successful candidate will work on security initiatives and enterprise level projects performing proof of technology/concept asks, implementing new security controls and capabilities into existing technologies and be responsible to deploy, support and maintain new security technologies and platforms.
• The security platform engineer will be part of a 24x7 on-call support team and be required to join major incident management calls to provide support and consultation for technologies supported by the team.
• Continuously improve upon operational and security platform process activities.
• Smoothly transition and operationalize each project as the implementation phase ends. This includes developing roles & responsibilities (RACI) documents and educating the teams who will be performing BAU (Business as usual) the day-to-day work.
• Document, update and maintain cyber security playbooks, policies and knowledge base articles used to support the established Incident Management and CSIRT processes.