
Manager, Cyber Defense – Strategy
Intact
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Montréal • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$128,300 - CA$156,800 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap to strengthen PSI’s cyber resilience
- Translate business priorities and the evolving threat landscape into actionable defensive capabilities and measurable outcomes
- Lead a team focused on secure architecture and platform engineering, data protection, security control testing, and penetration testing coordination
- Partner closely with other security teams to ensure an integrated, end-to-end defense posture
- Establish a clear operating model, service objectives, and success metrics; continuously mature capabilities, processes, and tooling to improve resilience and reduce risk
- Drive a structured capability maturity plan prioritizing initiatives based on risk reduction, business needs, and the threat landscape
- Define and implement secure-by-design architecture standards and scalable engineering patterns
- Build and run a robust security control testing and assurance program to verify control effectiveness, support compliance needs, and deliver evidence-based reporting
- Plan and coordinate penetration tests and external assessments, define scope and rules of engagement
- Provide leadership through ambiguity and during high-severity events by ensuring clear decision-making, stakeholder communications, and executive-ready reporting
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
- 10 years of information security / cybersecurity experience, including 3 years managing technical teams
- Strong experience across core cybersecurity domains, including network & infrastructure security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, security governance/risk/compliance, security architecture, encryption, and data protection
- Demonstrated ability to translate cyber risk into strategy and execution—building roadmaps, defining measurable outcomes, and driving delivery across stakeholders
- Experience operating in heterogeneous, complex environments spanning cloud, SaaS, and on-premises technologies
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, analytical thinking, decision-making, and communication skills, including the ability to influence across diverse teams and lead through crises
- Ability to prepare and present clear, compelling materials to communicate complex concepts and drive stakeholder alignment
- Recognized certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or GSEC are an asset
- Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with an English-speaking clientele and colleagues across the country.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
- Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance): 15%
- Pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for employees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
cyber resiliencesecure architectureplatform engineeringdata protectionsecurity control testingpenetration testingnetwork securityidentity and access managementvulnerability managementencryption
Soft Skills
leadershipproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingdecision-makingcommunicationinfluencingstakeholder alignmentcrisis management
Certifications
CISSPCISMCRISCGSEC