Senior Associate, Cybersecurity – Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security

A career within PwC Canada’s Cybersecurity practice gives you the opportunity to help clients strengthen digital trust, protect critical systems and data, and prepare for emerging security risks. You’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, bringing together technical knowledge, consulting discipline, and practical delivery experience to help organizations strengthen their security posture and prepare for emerging risks.

As a Senior Associate, Cybersecurity – Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. You’ll support client work across cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, IAM, secrets management, data protection, AI security posture, and security engineering. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:

• Deliver cybersecurity engagements across cryptography, PQC readiness, IAM, secrets management, data protection, AI security, and security engineering.
• Assess client environments to identify security gaps, cryptographic risks, identity issues, secrets exposure, data protection needs, and improvement opportunities.
• Support cryptographic inventories, risk prioritization, control mapping, crypto-agility planning, and transition roadmaps aligned to business and regulatory priorities.
• Design, configure, test, document, and support security solutions across PKI, key management, certificate management, IAM, DLP, cloud, automation, and Dev Ops environments.
• Prepare client deliverables, communicate progress and risks, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to reusable assets, proposals, and thought leadership.

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for:

• Experience in cybersecurity, cryptography, IAM, cloud security, security engineering, infrastructure security, or technology consulting.
• Knowledge of cryptography, PKI, certificates, key management, secrets management, PQC concepts, crypto-agility, and related security controls.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST, OSFI B-13, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and related technology risk requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Python, shell scripting, Terraform, Dev Ops tools, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud platforms.
• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, stakeholder management, teamwork, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• This role does not require professional engineering licensure and is not classified as a formal engineering position under provincial regulatory definitions. While individuals with a P.Eng designation are welcome to apply, the responsibilities of this role do not involve the practice of professional engineering as defined by applicable legislation.
• As a requirement, a Security Clearance is mandatory for all staff who’ll be engaged on these assignments. Prior to applying, please review the Government of Canada website to ensure you meet the eligibility requirements to obtain this clearance. This’ll become a condition of your employment with PwC should you receive an offer from us.

The salary range for this position is $84,700 - $134,700. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements.

We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

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