Organization Overview

BC Assessment is a Provincial Crown Corporation that develops and maintains real property assessments throughout British Columbia in addition to providing real property information. BC Assessment serves the citizens of British Columbia and has 13 offices throughout the province.

In BC Assessment, our people and culture are important to us. We work together to create a culture that appreciates differences in all forms. We trust and respect each other, and are invited to bring our whole selves to work. We are committed to making BC Assessment the best possible place to work, and through our efforts ultimately contribute to a better British Columbia. Our digitally agile, service-centric employees are productive, engaged, and work collaboratively in a modern flexible workplace. Our employees are at the heart of our organization and we are proud to be recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers for the ninth year!

We offer competitive benefits for our employees:

• Work-life balance – 35-hour work weeks, hybrid work options and flexible work schedules.

• Public Service Pension Plan – one of the best in Canada, allowing you to plan for your future.

• Health and Wellness - generous extended health and dental benefits through Pacific Blue Cross and an Employee Assistance Program to help support our employees overall well-being.

• Career development – we want you to grow and learn with us! We provide ongoing learning, leadership development and career development scholarship program.

• Our office is located at Uptown in Victoria, B.C. which overlooks several retail shops and coffee shops and is walking distance to the Galloping Goose trail network. 

We are committed to ensuring that reasonable accommodations are made available to persons with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.

This critical role will lead and maintain the BCA information security framework to enable employees, business partners and customers access to appropriate information, applications and technology. It provides security expertise for Information Communications Technology (ICT) services at each stage of the systems life-cycle and designs and tests procedures to protect systems and services.
 

We are looking for a proactive, detail-oriented, analytical, customer-focused individual that understands data, and the essential role Cybersecurity plays within the organization.  You are able to understand issues, prioritize tasks, coordinate resources and make sound decisions that contribute to the success of the organization. You are highly technical, but have strong interpersonal skills and experience in a leadership role with a small team.  You can do the necessary analysis and can communicate solutions to all levels within the organization.  You also truly hear your stakeholders and understand the business.  You can act effectively in a pressured incident response situation. You can prioritize your tasks and projects to ensure they continue to move forward.

Finally, you need to want to contribute – to our team, to the business and the communities that we support. This is your chance to join a great company and make an impact.
 

Key Accountabilities

• Develop, maintain and evaluate corporate security policies, processes, and procedures to support BCA’s security framework.

• Enforce security policies, procedures and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard and best practices.

• Keep current with emerging security alerts and issues. Conducts research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards to security enhancement/development efforts.

• Review new legislation/regulations and identifies impacts to information systems security.

• Ensure systems comply with audit/review requirements, quality plans, and security  standards.

• Lead the day-to-day systems security services delivery.

• Prepare project plans for the implementation, upgrade and operation of security services.

• Respond to job assignments such as work orders, engineering changes and trouble calls.

• Investigate threats, proposes solutions, and implements recommendations for security counter-measures against error, disaster and misuse.

• Grant, modify, and revoke access to electronic information and applications based on designed security models for applications and data and a defined approval process.

• Monitor and report on security issues and incidents. Coordinates investigation and resolution of security problems and informs senior managers.

• Conduct confidential security investigations or reviews of internal/external systems access and documents findings.

• Review and check application, server and network logs and regularly report issues.

• Work with provincial government agencies to identify, track and report on global security warnings, audits, and incidents.

• Coordinate physical security of IT infrastructure assets and reports on inventory.

• Participate in the analysis, testing and scheduling of security patches for client and server operating systems, applications, and active network devices.

• Identifying, developing and implementing plans, measures, for continuous improvement.

• Conduct security audits to ensure security policies and, procedures are adhered to makes recommendations for improvement.

• Assess the organization’s security measures, such as firewalls, anti-virus software and passwords, to identify any weak points that might make information systems vulnerable to attack.
   

Location: Victoria, BC – Uptown *
Compensation: $95,103.21 - $ 111,798.33
Competition Close Date: Sunday, February 26th @ 11:59PM

*Other BCA locations may be considered

This position is excluded from the bargaining unit.  BC Assessment intends to establish an eligibility list for this competition.