City : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Category : Engineering

Industry : Telecommunications

Employer : Ciena

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Why Ciena:

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
• We know that financial security is important.  We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
• We realize time away to recharge is important.  We offer flexible paid time off!
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute:

Reporting to the Director, Embedded Software Engineering as a Product Security Architect, you will serve as a security technical leader in Ciena’s Converged Packet Optical domain. You will be responsible for utilizing your broad product knowledge and oversight including deep security competency in identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability scanning, risk management, software development lifecycle, cryptographic fundamentals, architecture design, operations, and incident recovery.

• You will be responsible for ensuring that the defined product security features are implemented such that products and services are compliant with company security requirements and policies. 
• You will develop a high-level security roadmap to ensure the product portfolio meets current and future security requirements.
• You will partner with peers across the Converged Packet Optical domain on architectural designs, processes, and frameworks which meet security requirements, and enable products to meet operational and business needs.
• You will develop reference security architectures defining deployment and operational models including data flow, management, and operations of each product.
• You will collaborate with other Security Architects and Security Design Primes regarding specific feature implementations.
• You will prioritize and track vulnerabilities across the product portfolio.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Initiative – you’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.
• Agility – you are readily able to make key decisions and manage competing and ever-changing account priorities.

• Communication expertise – you have the ability to influence and tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and consensus.
• Relationship builder – with an innate ability to influence, you’re able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done through others.
• The flexibility to work independently and as part of a broader team – you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment, but are comfortable working independently as required.
• A commitment to learning – you keep abreast of technology developments and are always keen to share your knowledge with others.

The Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science coupled with extensive experience in software development and security fields.
• Proven knowledge of Open Source and/or commercial security software stacks.
• Multi-disciplinary leadership experience focused on Identity, Application, Network, Data Security and incident response.  
• Experience with analysis tools such as SCA, DAST, SAST and practices & frameworks, such as OWASP or NIST.

Assets:

• Experience with security publications/certifications such as ISO 2700X:2022, NIST 800-XXX, Common Criteria, FIPS 140-2/3, security related RFCs.
• Knowledge of all aspects of credential management, with excellent knowledge of PKIs and credential management services.
• Experience with embedded systems software and hardware (secure boot, hardware root of trust, Trusted Platform Module).
• A security certification such as CISSP, CISM, CASP+

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At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard.  Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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