Posted 5 days ago
IT Security Design Specialist
@ OXARO Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
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Overview
OXARO Inc. is hiring a contract IT Security Design Specialist in Ottawa, on site, for 10 months. The role designs, assesses and recommends security architectures for enterprise IM/IT systems, including audit, monitoring and controls. Secret clearance and Controlled Goods status are required.
Responsibilities:
- Design and assess security architectures for enterprise IM/IT systems
- Develop security control frameworks and security requirements baselines
- Evaluate digital sovereignty and data residency considerations
- Define target-state capability models for IAM, Zero Trust and monitoring
- Produce advisory reports to inform procurement and implementation
Requirements summary:
- 10+ years of IT security design and architecture in protected environments
- Experience with ITSG-33, NIST or equivalent frameworks
- CISSP, CCSP, or GIAC certification required
- Secret clearance and Controlled Goods status required
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-08
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | CISSP, CCSP, GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst, GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender |
| Encouraged to apply | Women |
| Security clearance | Secret |
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OXARO Inc.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 8 |
Job description
Location: Ottawa, ON (On-site)
Duration: 10 months
Security Clearance: Secret & Controlled Goods required
Responsibilities
AI Disclosure: We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Duration: 10 months
Security Clearance: Secret & Controlled Goods required
Responsibilities
- Design, assess, and recommend security architectures for enterprise IM/IT systems.
- Design and assess audit, monitoring, logging, accountability, and security event management architectures.
- Develop future-state security architectures, security capability models, and security principles catalogues.
- Produce security control frameworks, security requirements baselines, and architecture assessments.
- Evaluate digital sovereignty, data residency, and cross-jurisdictional security considerations.
- Assess security considerations for enterprise architecture, interoperability, and modernization of complex environments.
- Identify and recommend security controls and safeguards in accordance with ITSG-33, NIST, or equivalent frameworks.
- Define target-state security capability models addressing IAM, Zero Trust, auditability, and monitoring.
- Address security zoning, compartmentation, information exchange security, and data protection requirements.
- Develop encryption, cryptographic key management, resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery requirements.
- Map security capabilities to business and operational requirements.
- Produce advisory reports and recommendations to inform procurement, solution evaluation, and implementation planning.
- 10+ years of experience providing IT security design, architecture, and security assessment services in protected environments, including the development, assessment, and implementation of security architectures for complex IM/IT systems and modernization initiatives.
- Experience designing, assessing, and recommending security architectures for enterprise IM/IT systems.
- Experience designing or assessing audit, monitoring, logging, accountability, and enterprise security capability architectures.
- Experience developing future-state security architectures, security capability models, security principles catalogues, and security control frameworks.
- Experience evaluating digital sovereignty, data residency, and cross-jurisdictional security considerations.
- Experience identifying and recommending security controls and safeguards in accordance with ITSG-33, NIST, or equivalent security frameworks.
- One of the following certifications required: CISSP, CCSP, GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst, or GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (multiple certifications preferred).
AI Disclosure: We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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