Holt Renfrew offers you an inspiring, fashion-driven environment with opportunities to learn and grow. From our incredible partnerships with iconic luxury brands, to our commitments to corporate social responsibility, you will be inspired every day.

A job at Holt Renfrew offers a competitive total compensation, a generous employee discount, pension, and health & dental benefits, tuition assistance, and continuous learning and development.

The Network Security Specialist role is responsible for protecting our critical information assets and brand reputation via number of security technologies, process and governance. The role will ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory policies/standards & industry best practices, enhancing and enabling business initiatives.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Develop, maintain and improve existing/new security technologies, processes and governance to effect a proactive security monitoring/detection capability; support implementation and management of the organization’s Information and IT Security roadmap
• Provides information and recommendations regarding network security and installations, and develops and maintains process and procedure documentation
• Safeguard information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems while providing timely incident resolutions in alignment with departmental SLAs
• Investigates and/or reviews alerts, violations and exceptions to security controls by conducting periodic audits and helps close gaps identified by 3rd party security audits such as PCI, vulnerability and penetration tests; understands when an incident should be escalated into the formal process
• Provide security related out of hours and on-call emergency support, as defined by the team's operational procedures
• Stay current with information security trends and provides threat intelligence for intrusion techniques, vulnerabilities and social engineering. Advises on applicable trends and recommends solutions.
• Enforces security governance by monitoring and administering security technologies (IPS/IDS, Firewalls, DDoS Protection, Anti-Virus, Server Patching, Web-Filtering, NAC, Data Loss Prevention, Proxy and E-mail filtering, identity management system and tokenization)
• Protects systems by defining access privileges, control structures, and resources
• Works with external and internal auditors in the provision of evidence and remediation of findings
• Administration access via identity management system, creating, issuing, and monitoring user profiles, passwords, user security groups, AD, LDAP, Radius, two factor authentication and any other system usage accounts and access codes. Ensure proper authority, review, monitoring and reporting of those approving access to information resources.
• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing publications
• Complies with all Health & Safety policies and requirements
• Performs other duties as assigned

The ideal candidate:

• Post-secondary degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 3 - 5 years of experience in Network security, preferably in a retail organization
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and customer service skills
• Possess relevant Cisco certifications
• Be fully knowledgeable with practices and related tools for Data Centre Management and IT Operation functions (including ITIL, ITSM, and Change Management).
• Have advanced technical skills for technology infrastructure management (including WAN, LAN, Server, Network Management, Telecommunication).
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, Fortinet Firewalls, FortiAnalyzer, Cisco ISE, Windows Server Technologies, Cisco Switches/ Routers/ Controllers/ Access Point / Net Scaler Load Balancers. Microsoft Hyper-V / VMware technology.
• Advanced knowledge of Routing and Switching protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, STP, PVST, RSTP, Ether Channel, VTP, 802.1Q, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, NAT/PAT, TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, SSH, TFTP, SMTP, SNMP, ARP, MPLS
• Experience working with Private and/or Public Cloud environments (Azure) would be an asset.
• Confident and effective communication (written & verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Hiring Reason : Existing Vacancy Holt Renfrew is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our future success depends on the perspectives and contributions of all our employees -- their diverse backgrounds, abilities and experiences make our business stronger. If you are contacted for a job opportunity and require accommodation, please email careers@holtrenfrew.com and let us know so we can ensure you have an accessible candidate experience throughout the recruitment process. All requests are confidential and used only to meet candidate needs. Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

$85,000.00 - $110,000.00 / 85.000,00$ - 110.000,00$ (per year / par an)

Final compensation for this position will be determined based on the candidate's unique skills, expertise, individual qualifications, and assessed contributions to the role following the completion of the interview process. The range stated is the starting range for this position. Offers may vary with experience, qualifications, performance, and local market conditions. We strive to offer competitive compensation that aligns with a candidate's contributions to our team, along with a comprehensive benefits package, enticing perks, pension matching, incentives, and our coveted employee discount. / La rémunération finale pour ce poste sera déterminée sur la base des compétences uniques du candidat, de son expertise, de ses qualifications individuelles et de l'évaluation de sa contribution au poste à l'issue de la procédure d'entrevue. La fourchette indiquée est la fourchette de départ pour ce poste. Les offres peuvent varier en fonction de l’expérience, des qualifications, du rendement et des conditions du marché local. Nous nous efforçons d'offrir une rémunération compétitive qui corresponde à la contribution du candidat à notre équipe, ainsi qu'un ensemble complet de garanties, d'avantages attrayants, de cotisations de retraite assorties par l'employeur, de primes d'encouragement et notre très convoitée remise d'employé.