Toronto, Ontario, CA (Hybrid)1 open job
Canada's largest REIT, owning, operating and developing 700+ retail, industrial, mixed-use and residential properties across Canada, totaling about 65 million square feet.
Choice Properties General Partnership Inc. operates the largest Real Estate Investment Trust in Canada: over 700 commercial and residential properties, roughly 65 million square feet of gross leasable area, and a land position that ranks among the largest in the country. The portfolio is not a single asset class. It runs necessity-based retail anchored by strong tenants, industrial properties in key distribution markets, and mixed-use and residential development concentrated in Canada's most attractive urban markets. That mix is the threat model in outline - a distributed estate spanning retail point-of-sale environments, logistics and distribution tenants, and residential occupancy, all bound to the financial reporting and capital-discipline obligations of a publicly structured REIT.
Scale is the operational problem here. More than 700 properties means a wide perimeter and a long tail of building-level systems, third-party property managers, tenants, and development partners, distributed across Canada rather than concentrated in one data center or one office. Security work in an environment like this is less about a single flagship system and more about standardization across heterogeneous sites: retail, industrial, and residential each carry different access models, different tenant interfaces, and different exposure windows. The organization's stated strategy is capital preservation and stable, long-term value; the security posture has to hold the same line - protect the asset base, keep operations continuous, and avoid the kind of incident that forces a distraction from the balance sheet.
The company frames its purpose as creating places where people thrive, with values grounded in Care, Ownership, Respect, and Excellence, and states a commitment to sustainability and social impact embedded in what it builds and operates. For security practitioners, the relevant read is cultural: ownership is named as a value, which tends to translate into expectations of accountability across teams rather than purely outsourced coverage. Headquarters and operations are Canadian; the geographic footprint is Canada-wide.
