TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is a great place to work. You can see it in our team members. The diversity of the team and their unique contributions set us apart from the competition. Our success is based as much on our future friendly team as the innovative technology solutions we offer.

Our team members include people like you – enthusiastic, innovative, passionate and energetic. We believe that you'll find our high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging and financially rewarding.

Here’s the impact you will make and what we will accomplish together

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation to tackle one of the most pressing social challenges of our time – achieving more efficient production while lowering the impact on the environment. We believe that by delivering data insights and digital solutions that empower and connect producers to consumers we can improve the quality, safety and sustainability of our food and consumer goods.

We offer an unmatched suite of innovative solutions and purpose-built applications for every participant in the supply chain, from seed manufacturers and farmers through to grocery stores and consumer goods companies. Our solutions are comprised of the latest technologies that enable our customers to optimize their businesses with more accuracy, efficiency and profit and create unified, trusted and sustainable food and consumer goods value chains.

As part of our Global Technology team, you’ll help drive product development, business systems, data analytics, security and architecture. Your goal in this position is to preserve our organization’s security configurations by running offensive tests against TELUS Agriculture systems and proprietary applications and create precise and comprehensible reports identifying the weaknesses in these systems and applications. With your results you will develop recommendations and implement solutions in collaboration with the various key stakeholders, IT and product teams to strengthen our organizations overall security posture.

Here’s how

As an experienced security professional with strong collaboration and communication skills you will work with the wider security team and business units across the company to identify vulnerabilities through the development and execution of a practical and thorough testing program with the primary responsibilities below.

Operate a hands-on role involving penetration testing and vulnerability assessment activities of complex proprietary applications, operating systems, wired and wireless networks, and mobile applications/devices
Work with the Director of security to deliver the annual penetration testing schedule
Develop and maintain security testing plans and help in the defining and formalization of the scope of each test and rules of engagement by consulting with key stakeholders to ensure proper participation and transfer of knowledge
Use new penetration testing mechanisms to run across various system segments to identify potential dangers by simulating exploits
Automate penetration and other security testing on networks, systems, and applications
Run physical examinations to inspect physical deficiencies in systems, network devices, servers, and physical access management.
Develop meaningful metrics to reflect the true posture of the environment allowing the organization to make educated decisions based on risk
Consult with application developers, systems administrators, and management to demonstrate security testing results, explain the threat presented by the results, and consult on remediation
Act as a source of direction, training, and guidance for less experienced staff
Mentor and coach other IT security staff to provide guidance and expertise in their growth
Communicate security issues to a wide variety of internal and external “customers” to include technical teams, executives, risk groups, vendors, and regulators
Foster and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
Maintain and keep up to date with new and emerging threats such as zero-day vulnerabilities through continuous research

What you bring to this role

Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with other technology professionals to develop and maintain enhanced security solutions to be applied throughout the TELUS Agriculture. A qualified candidate will possess the following:

Previous working experience as a Penetration Testing Expert for 5 years
BA in IT specializing in Cybersecurity or Computer Science
Solid experience using a combination of DAST tools and manual techniques to detect exploitable threats to the organization
In-depth knowledge of application development processes and at least one programing or scripting language (e.g., Java, Scala, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PowerShell)
Hands on experience with testing frameworks such as the PTES and OWASP
Networking knowledge such as public vs private IP, MAC Addressing, DNS, OSI model, DHCP
Solid understanding of firewalls, IDS, PKI, and cryptography
Applicable knowledge of Windows client/server, Unix/Linux systems, Mac OS X, VMware/Xen, and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Advanced written and verbal communication skills
Analytical thinker
Strong social engineering skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills

Join us

Collectively, our talented team and integrated solutions uniquely position us to transform collaboration within the industry at a global level, empowering and connecting producers to consumers for a more efficient, sustainable future.

Everyone belongs at TELUS Agriculture. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected. Because the more diverse perspectives we have the more likely we are to crack the code on what our customers want and our communities need.

Do you share our passion for enabling remarkable human outcomes?

Together, let’s make the future friendly.

Accessibility

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

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