Elevate business at SIA Innovations
As organizations rely more and more on data and automation, zero-trust and threat management continue to grow exponentially in importance. We want to be at the forefront, guiding our customers towards secure and resilient IT operations with frictionless security.
At SIA Innovations, we are innovators committed to helping our customers transform digitally by leveraging AI and hybrid cloud technologies from IBM and Palo Alto Networks. We create value by helping our customers increase productivity, improve agility & resiliency, and support sustainable operations.
We are looking for exceptional profiles of dynamic candidates who see every challenge as an opportunity and can demonstrate a combination of business skills, technical expertise, and creative problem solving. If your ambition is to shape the digital future for our customers, your mission awaits you at SIA Innovations.
Your role and responsibilities
As an Cyber Security Engineer, you will play a central role in guiding our customers and securing their zero trust journeys. You will lead by example by directing our Security studio and building our team of specialists for customer and internal R&D projects. You will promote our leadership in digital trust and threat management solutions that make SIA the cybersecurity partner of choice for our customers.
The ideal candidate for this position excels in fast-paced, dynamic environments and demonstrates a strong combination of technical skills, business knowledge, creativity and leadership abilities. You are able to tackle complex challenges, design innovative solutions and guide projects and teams towards the desired business outcomes.
The Cyber Security Engineer is customer-focused and results-driven, with responsibilities that include:
- Taking ownership of projects to architect, develop and deploy innovative solutions that leverage Palo Alto Networks and IBM security platforms and technologies.
- Ensuring solutions are aligned with requirements; influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders; managing expectations and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Leading the Security studio - taking charge of projects, coaching the team, leading agile meetings ("scrums" and "sprints"), making monthly presentations, assisting HR by conducting performance reviews for studio employees and participating in recruiting activities.
- Leading research and experimental development activities and projects to increase our knowledge and skills, developing and improving our methodologies, and developing SIA solution and service offerings.
- Providing pre-sales support to SIA's marketing and sales team (understand customer needs, responding to RFPs, developing proposals & project plans, creating & facilitating technical presentations, demos, workshops, and PoTs / PoCs).
- Actively participating in social media and other networking opportunities to promote your brand and our company (including posts and articles on showcase pages).
Technical and professional expertise requiredl:
Ideal Candidates Have The Following Profile
- In-depth understanding of security technologies from Palo Alto Networks (Cortex XSIAM) and IBM (QRadar SIEM/SOAR/EDR/XDR, Guardium, Verify).
- Familiarity with cloud technologies and deployments, particularly Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, empathy, and a growth mindset.
- Curiosity (explorer), creativity and organizational skills.
- Fluency in English and French.
- Comfortable with complex sales and long sales cycles.
Non negotiables:
- Permanent, full-time, face-to-face position (office located in downtown Montreal).
- Must be a resident of the Montreal area and have authorization to work in Canada.
- Must be available for occasional travel in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean - for customer projects, conferences and training.