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Job Type: Employee
Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs): 12
Job Family: IT Security
# of Open Positions: 1
Faculty/Service - Department: IT Security
Campus: Main Campus
Union Affiliation: N/A
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/11/03
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/11/14
Hours per week: 35
Salary Grade: Non-Union Grade NM1
Salary Range: $104,880.00 - $131,101.00
About Information Technology:
Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.
In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It'll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.
Position Purpose
Reporting to the Senior Manager, IT Security, the incumbent leads the design, development, implementation/upgrade, integration, testing, management, and support of information security systems and applications. The systems impacted include large scale mission critical systems. Works with minimum supervision and acts as a specialist with a deep knowledge of complex technologies to enable and support business critical systems. Provides security education to the University community and monitors/investigates/resolves IT security issues.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Security Planning, Design and Deployment of AI Initiatives: Develop plans and approaches to designing and configuring security system requirements for University enterprise systems. Responsible for establishing and/or implementing frameworks and templates to standardize information security solutions and application integration activities.
• Documentation: Develops and maintains Information Security procedures, standards, guidelines, and documentation based on direction from the University's Security Architecture team, security best practices, and compliance requirements. Establish and document use-cases for the security information and event management system. Responsible for ensuring all internal procedures and processes are documented, maintained, and readily accessible.
• Support and Consulting: Provide expert-level technical support, consulting services and instruction to University's staff, academic and research communities on the proper methods to secure their servers, systems and software following industry best practices. Communicates with vendors' technical representatives to resolve complex problems by providing detailed information of the issue and following up with documentation. This may require replacing software or designing and implementing customized solutions. Provides feedback and reports to vendors' representatives concerning technical and/or security problems. Provides supporting documentation to request and justify funding of new features or solutions.
• Knowledge and Enforcement: Maintain a solid working knowledge of Information Security principles and practices. Conduct research of the current trends of information security and event monitoring and keep up-to-date with issues and technologies. Participate in knowledge sharing with other team members to advance the security monitoring program. Enforce IT security policies, procedures and specific security standards that govern various level of security.

What you will bring:

• University degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in design, development, implementation and management of applications/systems related to Information Security in a complex and diverse IT environment.
• Experience securing AI/ML systems, including model lifecycle management, data governance, and adversarial threat mitigation.
• Familiarity with AI-specific security risks such as model inversion, data poisoning, and prompt injection attacks.
• Knowledge of secure MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines for machine learning models.
• Understanding of AI governance frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., EU AI Act, Canadian AI and Data Act, NIST AI RMF).
• Experience with privacy-preserving technologies in AI, such as differential privacy, federated learning, and secure multi-party computation.
• Ability to conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for AI systems and intelligent automation platforms.
• Experience with tools and platforms for AI observability and monitoring (e.g., MLFlow, Seldon, Azure ML, Amazon SageMaker).
• Knowledge of ethical AI principles and bias mitigation strategies in model development.
• Experience collaborating with data scientists, researchers, and AI engineers to embed security into AI workflows.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale, end-to-end information security systems in a complex, multi-platform environment;
• Familiarity with secure data handling practices for training datasets, including anonymization and access control.
• Leadership skills, ability to coach and mentor other IT professionals;
• In-depth analytical skills for complex problem solving - identification, diagnosis, resolution;
• Knowledge of the University's information technology and security policies, procedures and standards would be considered an asset;
• Experience in project management and meeting strict deadlines;
• Good communication skills to interact with team members, support personnel, and provide technical guidance and expertise to clients and management;
• CISSP or other information security certifications is an asset;
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including occasional weekends and evenings.
• Bilingual: French and English (spoken and written).

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click to find out more.
If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 - Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.

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