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Posting Date

December 6, 2022

Closing Date

January 6, 2023

Pay Range

Payband 9 $75,662 - $94,699 (Start Rate $75,622 - 85,229)

Hours

37.5 hours per week

Work Type

Hybrid

Type

Permanent

Shift

Monday to Friday 8 30AM - 5 00PM

Start Date

End Date

Position Summary

The IT Security Analyst will report to the Manager, Security and Compliance to oversee and coordinate information security efforts across the College and ITS. Responsibilities include monitoring and responding to security incidents, conducting investigations, analyzing, resolving security breaches, planning and delivering security awareness trainings, reviewing current security posture and recommending measures to address identified gaps. The IT Security Analyst will be required to collaborate with stakeholders to identify and deliver on security initiatives, policies, standards, and procedures.

Responsibilities

Support & Administration

Investigates reported security incidents and policy violations, addresses complaints from internal and external parties which often requires access to sensitive information. Serves as the central point of contact for all security related issues. Conduct and draft post-mortem analysis reports, subsequent to major events, outlining root cause, lessons learned, and mitigation action.
Conducts IT security monitoring on IT systems using appropriate measures such as security dashboards, alerts, etc. and ensures compliance with defined security parameters. The incumbent will identify systems and users behavioural trends which may suggest a breach of IT security.
Provides ITS and college departments security related consulting services and offering insights into best practices by maintaining a broad knowledge of the latest IT security-related technologies, trends, issues and solutions.
Facilitates vulnerability and penetration testing to determine the organization’s security posture and works with stakeholders to come up with remediation plan to address identified vulnerabilities
Develops and delivers awareness and training programs concerning information security. The target audience is ITS and college staff, faculty and other related authorized users.
Maintains and updates ITS risk register under the supervision of the Manager, Security and Compliance. Regularly facilitates reviews to assess the state of identified risks.

Policies, Compliance, Enforcement

Coordinates the development of information security policies, standards and procedures (PSP). Facilitates workgroups that include key ITS, data custodians, and governance resources.
Ensures the enforcement of PSP across ITS and the college. Develops metrics and measures to assist in the enforcement process. Reports to the college executive on the state of enforcement and potential risks.

Qualifications

Education

Minimum of completed three (3) year degree in Computer Science Technology.
Must have a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) or other security certification/accreditation.

Experience

Minimum of five (5) years’ work experience in security architecture design/planning and information security systems.
Experience related to security breaches and vulnerabilities within a large institutional setting, ideally within an academic, unionized environment.
Proven track record to plan, implement, test, and monitor information security solutions.
Experience with operating systems, computer and network security assessments, systems programming and administration, applications development, database administration, networks operations, user support and data centre operations.

Skills

Ability to investigate security breaches and vulnerabilities within a large institutional setting, ideally within an academic, unionized environment.
Defining, implementing and ensuring compliance with ITS security policies, standards, procedures.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders/constituents in a large, multi-site, diverse community.
Well-developed analytical, problem-solving and evaluation skill sets.

Note Seneca requires copies of educational credentials at the time of an interview. Confirmation of educational credentials in the form of an official Canadian transcript or an official evaluation of international credentials which determines Canadian equivalency will be required upon hire.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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