Overview:
At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
Are you a talented individual with a proven track record on executing project deliverables.
A career within our Cybersecurity Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients implement an effective cybersecurity program that protects against threats, propels transformation, and drives growth. As companies pivot toward a digital business model, exponentially more data is generated and shared among organizations, partners, and customers. We play an integral role in helping our clients ensure they are protected by developing transformation strategies focused on security, efficiently integrate, and manage new or existing technology systems to deliver continuous operational improvements and increase their cybersecurity investment, and detect, respond, and remediate threats.
Find out more about KPMG Cyber Defense.
What you will do:
- Provide recommendations and advise on steps to mitigate the current level of exploitation, present risks and remediate the potentially vulnerable environment and remove the ability of ongoing/future attacks.
- Manage a team of technical experts to analyze results of assessment and create technical accurate and articulate reports in a business professional language, to be shared with technical stakeholders, executive stakeholders and potential third parties.
- Conduct research and development on technical cyber security topics, common attack vectors, infrastructure design/ technologies and offensive security testing methods.
What you bring to this role:
Technical Skills / Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer related studies (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems or a related discipline) or Math/Science related studies (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, etc.). Master’s level degree is an asset (in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or another related field).
- At least one, entry level, technical security related certifications e.g., CEH (Practical), eJPT, PWPA, etc.).
- An advanced technical certification in Penetration Testing: OSCP, OSEP, OSED, eCPPTv2, eCPTX, OSWE, PWPP, PJPT, PNPT, etc. is highly desired.
- Certifications and/or certificates of completion from Online Penetration Testing/Red Teaming Lab services (e.g., HacktheBox, TryHackMe, Burp Suite Web Academy, etc.) is desirable.
- 4-7 years of professional hands-on, technical, cybersecurity and penetration testing experience that includes issue identification and detailed analysis, identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities, providing detailed recommendations to issues, providing written and verbal feedback to clients, and formal detailed business level reporting in a business capacity.
Management Skills:
- 1-3 years on management experience within a cyber security team, managing technical cyber security projects, managing and guiding technical cyber security experts and providing deliverables to stakeholders.
- Experience managing multiple team members across multiple projects, creating and managing project budgets, project planning, timeline management, stakeholder status reporting and stakeholder feedback sessions.
- Experience in business development, writing proposals, engaging in stakeholder sales conversations, and converting opportunities into engagements/projects.
- Experience in guiding, coaching and training junior cyber security team members in technical cyber security skills, consulting skills and engagement delivery.
General Consulting Skills:
- Previous experience in consulting (professional services/consulting firm) is an asset.
- Be able to hold client conversations on technical and non-technical topics, engagement status, business development activities, etc. You must be able to converse independently and add value to these conversations.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and outside-the-box thinking, you are organized and methodical, with strong attention to detail and ability to analyze and interpret information.
- Comfortable with ambiguous tasks and objectives, able to self-lead and determine steps to complete tasks, create a self-driven action plan.
- Must be able to work independently, communicate with your team and keep your team’s leadership informed on your progress and how you’re approaching the completion of the project’s objectives.
- Professional verbal and written communication skills; able to clearly communicate issues and solutions to all levels on technical, formal and informal basis.
- Willingness and ability to travel across British Columbia, Ontario and more widely within Canada when required.
• *KPMG BC Region Pay Range Information**
The expected base salary range for this position is $93,000,000 to $155,000 and may be eligible for bonus awards. The determination of an applicant’s base salar
