IT Security Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON - Remote

Contract Length: 6 months.

We at Raise are hiring an IT Security Analyst for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

Responsiblities

• Conduct threat risk assessments on technology assets, specifically applications. Verify security controls, provide suggestion on compensating controls, and advise stakeholders on security best practices.
• Work with third and fourth parties to capture data inputs to the assessments, including the review of testing reports and summaries.
• Experience with architecture documentation – ability to recognize and identify risks based upon application design or implementation plan.
• Review and evaluate responses to security assessments, collect and validate supporting evidence.
• Review security and technical design documentation.
• Understand compensating and mitigating controls.
• Identify risks and understand their impact.
• Clearly and intelligently communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders regarding risks and corresponding actions necessary to remediate said risks.
• Prepare and report results to stakeholders and management.
• Understand regulatory requirements and how they apply to the evaluation/assessment of tooling or solution.
• Understand the financial regulations that legislate and impact technology and security controls.
• Work closely with stakeholders, including application owners and business lines to ensure risk remediation or acceptance is addressed.
• Conduct security risk assessments for 3rd and 4th party applications, components, services.
• Understand cloud infrastructure and cloud security controls.
• Work closely with third party relationship managers to define security expectations and hold vendor accountable for risk mitigation or remediation plans.
• Collaborate with IT business partners and team leads.
  
  

Must Have Skills

• IT Security Analyst or related cybersecurity background (2+ years of experience, but will consider recent university graduates with a degree in Cyber or Information Security).
• Recent experience working directly on Cyber Risk Assessments ( 2+ years, or 1 recent project).
• An understanding and experience with security controls/mechanisms and risk assessment techniques pertaining to complex data, application, infrastructure and networking environments proven through recent experience or last project.
• Proficiency in MS Office with extended knowledge in MS Excel ed) – 3+ years.
  
  

Nice To Have Skills

• CISA OR CISSP Certification.
• Recent relevant Financial Industry Experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Financial regulations and regulatory requirements (NYDFS, FIECC, Federal Reserve, Treasury, CFTC, etc.).
• Experience with vulnerability management tools such as Tripwire or Tenable
• Ability to read and interpret vulnerability, host audit/configuration and code scanning (DAST/SAST) reports.
  
  

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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer, and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/.

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