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Coursera

Information Security Engineer

Toronto, Canada
Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 71 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future. More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce. Coursera for Campus empowers any university to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Coursera is backed by leading investors that include Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, and SEEK Group.

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In 2016, Coursera began hosting accredited online Masters degrees provided by University partners, which ​provide ​a​ more convenient, lower-cost,​​ “stackable”​ means of earning credentials identical ​to their ​​traditional​ on-campus​​ counterparts. We also launched Coursera for Business, partnering with enterprise companies around the world to provide access to curated skill development for their employees, now serving 900+ customers.

You personally exhibit a conviction that the world needs Coursera to be wildly successful and alignment to our core values:

  • Betterment: a tireless pursuit to drive results
  • Boldness: take risks and act decisively
  • Deep Honesty: invite and offer candid feedback in order to learn, change, and grow
  • Solidarity: recognize that we are part of something bigger than ourselves and are committed

Your Responsibilities:

  • Implement and manage the Information Security Program including security incident response, vulnerability management, data protection, and risk management
  • Undertake and lead regulatory readiness assessments and development of appropriate compliance strategies (SOC2, FERPA, ISO27001, NIST, etc.) Driving and achieving SOC2 type2 certification in a first year
  • Documenting and maintaining security policies, standards, guidelines, processes and procedures, and other related documents, as requested, and representing the Security Team during internal and external audits
  • Working with Sales, lead the response to customer questionnaires dealing with our security and data protection policies. Review Information Security and privacy related requirements in contracts and provide input to Legal Team
  • Maintain company security breach response documentation and provide necessary training and periodic table top exercises for extended CIRT team
  • Establishing and coordinating remediation and mitigation for identified security risks
  • Ensuring technical security controls are in place, maintained and audited on a periodic basis

Your Skills:

  • 5+ years’ of working experience in an Information Security and Compliance role
  • Have solid knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST and other information security standards and ideally have some experience implementing these standards
  • Industry standard security certification(s) a Plus: CISSP, CISA, CISM, etc.
  • Previous experience reviewing/writing security related legal documents is a plus
  • Solid foundation and good technical knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication, security protocols and applied cryptography
  • Self-motivated and results-oriented
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.

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Job ID: 3daaf77b-f9ff-46b3-b91b-17934264ee0c
Employment Type: Other

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