Senior Cyber Security Analyst

2 months ago

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia Power Full time
The Opportunity

Company, Department: Emera Inc, Office of the Chief Digital Officer

Location: Halifax Nova Scotia

Closing Date: July 31, 2024

At Emera, you'll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help Emera to safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers.

If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you. Apply by July 31st and tell us what excites you about this role.

Reporting to the Director, Cyber Security Governance, the Senior Cyber Security Governance Analyst is responsible for advancing company-wide, multi-jurisdictional cyber security governance, risk and compliance assessments and testing programs. This is a key business role managing the security initiatives and projects from the Emera cyber programs in support of business objectives and will work closely with senior leadership across a large, diverse, and complex organization providing proactive and reliable counsel on all privacy and security matters.

Key elements of this role include:


• Supporting the development of the technical requirements for the operating company cybersecurity assessment plan.

• Reporting on affiliates technical debts or technical obstacles preventing them to meet the Cyber Security Framework requirements.

• Documenting cybersecurity reference architectures meeting the Emera Cybersecurity Framework objectives.

• Supporting the threat intelligence communication between affiliates.

• Disseminating the information in coordination with Emera Incident Responder as required.

• Following-up on the evolution of the threat and technical questions from the operating companies ensuring technical remediations are implemented.

• Continuously assess the efficacy of current cyber security controls and mitigation activities across operating companies.

• Gathering and dissemination of the results of the various operating companies security assessments (including continuous external surface management) while socializing the remediation activities across between teams.

• Provision of consistent and methodical reporting and observations for the development of Emera executive reporting. This will include maintenance of the Emera Incident Response playbook ensuring a technical response can be provided to current and emerging threats.

• Maintain current knowledge on industry trends and emerging techniques and tactics used by cybercriminals to gain systems access.

These skills will make you successful:

The ideal candidate is an experienced cyber security professional with a degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field. You are certified in Information Security Systems and have a minimum of 5 years progressive cyber security experience in the areas of Information Security operations, Cyber Risk Management or cyber security consulting.

Beyond technical experience the role requires a professional approach with the ability to effectively balance long term strategic objectives with short term functional priorities, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely manner under tight reporting deadlines. Also required is the ability to communicate complex analytics and information in a clear and concise manner engage other with new ideas and approaches. Additionally important to success in the role is an appreciation of project management and change management methodologies and a continuous improvement mind set and a focus on achieving results.

Skills, Capabilities and Experience


• Demonstrated ability to effectively influence decision-makers, technology staff and business management.

• Risk management experience with proven ability to effectively apply risk principles to challenging business situations.

• Strong knowledge of NIST CSF and NERC CIP;

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of cyber risk and challenges inherent to Operational Technologies in Critical infrastructure.

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Secure Cloud configuration and Architecture.

• Ability to establish organizational performance measures/metrics that ensure accountability, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

• Knowledge and experience of Cyber Incident Response processes

Learn more about our culture and values

At the Emera Group of Companies, you'll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help us to safely deliver cleaner, more reliable energy to our customers.

If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you. Apply by and let us know why this role is right for you.

The perks of joining our team? We offer:


• Flexibility: Hybrid work model with flexible remote workdays.

• Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for your and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

• Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

• Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, and scholarships for children of employees.

• Competitive Compensation: A comprehensive benefits plan, short-term incentive plans and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Emera

As one of Atlantic Canada's largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment & Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.

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