Programmer Analyst II (Cybersecurity)

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Remote work is eligible, but on-campus attendance is required weekly.

Salary: $8,554.25–$13,340.92 CAD monthly.

Company

hirify.global is a university supporting research, innovation, learning, and campus-wide information technology and cybersecurity services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain security solutions, APIs, microservices, and custom applications across hirify.global properties and networks.
• Define application and technical architecture, specifications, standards, diagrams, coding logic, and integration approaches.
• Gather requirements and collaborate with architects, developers, analysts, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain the product backlog, prioritize user stories and issues, plan releases, manage dependencies, and coordinate development, testing, risk management, and deployment.
• Develop technical documentation, conduct testing, and provide ongoing application maintenance, operational support, training, and consultation.
• Lead retrospectives, manage small to medium-sized projects and budgets, and provide technical guidance to less experienced staff.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and in-depth knowledge of applications and their supporting business requirements.
• At least five years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in some or all of the following is required: requirements gathering, issue and demand management, release planning, data modeling, SSDLC, ORM concepts and frameworks, version control, CI/CD, secrets storage, encryption, authentication, SQL, object storage, message queuing, APIs, and JSON.
• Experience with incident, demand, and change management in a large, complex environment.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, manage multiple tasks, meet deadlines, exercise sound judgment, and raise security concerns regardless of ownership or potential impact.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across functions and organizational levels.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives and commitment to developing knowledge and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science.
• Active, self-motivated professional development, including secure development certifications such as CSSLP or GWEB.
• Experience securing, designing, developing, integrating, and maintaining applications, APIs, and microservices in an enterprise multi-cloud environment.
• Working knowledge of OWASP security frameworks, models, and standards.
• Experience with Python, PHP, SAST, DAST, SCA, SAML, OIDC, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, TDD, HTTP, TCP/IP, x509 certificates, network and systems inventories and architecture, DNS, containerization, virtualization, LDAP, or WordPress.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, ongoing staff position within the Solutions Security & Architecture department.
• Eligible for remote work with required weekly attendance at the Vancouver campus.
• Work involves collaboration with cybersecurity, information technology, administrative, academic, and faculty stakeholders.
• Position may include technical leadership, coaching, and direction of project staff.
• Employment is subject to satisfactory completion of relevant background checks.