Our Health Care client is looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join their team on a 12 month term. The role will be remote to start but once offices reopen, the location can be in Toronto or Ottawa (whichever is convenient for the consultant).
Roles and Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain the security systems and infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability scanning tools, web proxies, SIEMs, endpoint security solutions, etc.), and security services within the AWS cloud environment (AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, Trusted Advisor, IAM Access Analyzer, CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, etc.)
- Performing ongoing security monitoring of events reported by security systems, SIEMs, and cloud security monitoring services, and assess, respond to, and resolve security events (incidents, vulnerabilities, threats, and overall risk).
- Respond to security incidents involving malware events on employee laptops, including isolating the laptop, containing the threat, communicating to the affected employee, analyzing the source of the threat, and adjusting existing controls as necessary to prevent recurrence.
- Conduct vulnerability and risk assessments, perform root cause analysis of security incidents, provide recommendations for improvements, and implement the recommendations as appropriate.
- Leverage the security and IT infrastructure to assist the incident response team in resolving critical technical incidents by combining your expertise in both event analysis through SIEMs and network packet captures of network traffic traversing across firewalls, routers, proxies, load balancers, and hosts.
Qualifications and Experience
- Security services within the AWS cloud environment (AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, Trusted Advisor, IAM Access Analyzer, CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, etc.)
- Palo Alto FW Administration
- ForcePoint NGFW Administration
- Threat Hunting
- Splunk SPL
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Malware investigation & analysis
- Incident Response
- Zscaler ZIA
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- AWS Security Services
- VPN Administration
- Firewalls
- Technical Design Documentation
- Workload Management
- Web Proxies
- SIEMs
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Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: $85.00-$100.00 per hour
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:
- Information & Network Security Engineers & Analysts: 5 years (preferred)