Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering

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Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering

Requisition  Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Senior Manager, Cloud Security Engineering is responsible for providing strong leadership to a dedicated team of engineers who support the Cloud Security toolsets. This team is charged with the design and implementation of enterprise-level security platforms, ensuring robust protection for the bank's technology infrastructure.

In this role, the Senior Manager leads a team of platform engineers, guiding them in the execution and delivery of the enterprise Cloud Security product strategy. This involves setting clear objectives, providing mentorship, and ensuring that platform engineering initiatives align with the broader strategic goals of the organization.

The Senior Manager facilitates collaboration across different departments with the aim of making strategic platform engineering decisions. Emphasis is placed on technical design and seamless integration with Dev Ops practices. This cross-functional approach ensures that security solutions are embedded into the bank’s development and operational workflows.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills are essential for this role. The Senior Manager must be able to distill and convey complex technical information to executive management, including details related to risks, resource utilization, and the impact on project roadmaps. Effective communication ensures alignment among stakeholders and supports informed decision-making.

It is imperative that all activities undertaken in this role comply with applicable governing regulations, as well as internal policies and procedures. The Senior Manager is responsible for ensuring that the team’s work adheres to these standards, thereby supporting the bank’s commitment to operational integrity and regulatory compliance.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

Lead and manage a team of Cloud Security Engineers to implement and tune Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Protection tools to all the cloud environments in the organization.

Lead and Implement security controls for containerized environments, ensuring secure container registries, runtime protection, and service mesh security.

Lead and Implement security controls for Enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

Translate high-level information security policies and business objectives into actionable engineering roadmaps

Closely collaborate with Product, Architecture and operations teams to ensure implementation of the bank’s enterprise security strategy.

Manage platform implementation and project deliverables, including communicating clearly to stakeholders, ability to define critical chain of events to execute a project successfully, and strong project management skills.

Work closely with their Director to facilitate cross-department strategic decisions and work with leaders in defining and building executive communication.

Manage resource allocation, estimation for new initiatives, assessment of incoming work, development and maintenance of a roadmap for the team.

Deliver projects to remediate IT Risk, Internal Audit and Regulatory (including OSFI) associated with security platforms.

Build and maintain stakeholder buy-in and relationships across IS&C and IT business line teams.

Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and…