We are looking for a Security Analystfor a 12-month contract position, with possible extensions in Regina, Saskatchewan. Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
Position is available as on-site location with full-time hours.
Role Description
The Security Analyst will monitor and respond to cybersecurity incidents, investigate security alerts, and help protect the organization's systems and data. Support network security, privileged access management (PAM), security reporting, and incident response while collaborating with teams to identify and resolve security risks.
Responsibilities
- Handling security queue in ServiceNow application to manage security incident tickets and comply with incident response plans and processes to address potential threats.
- Monitor, analyze, and investigate network security events and anomalies across firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), web proxies, and other network security technologies.
- Perform network traffic analysis to identify indicators of compromise, suspicious communications, unauthorized access attempts, and potential data exfiltration activities.
- Support the implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of network security controls, including firewalls, network access control (NAC), segmentation, VPNs, and secure remote access solutions.
- Conduct reviews of firewall rules, access control lists (ACLs), and network security configurations to ensure adherence to security standards and least-privilege principles.
- Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure and networking teams to assess, troubleshoot and remediate network security risks, vulnerabilities and configuration gaps or weaknesses.
- Participate in security investigations and incident response activities, including packet capture analysis, threat containment, and root cause determination.
- Maintain awareness of emerging network-based threats, attack techniques, and security technologies, and recommend enhancements to detection and prevention capabilities.
- Creating and maintaining operational reporting artefacts (e.g. Risk Management Decision Item (RMDI), incident reporting, human resource (HR) investigations, lost/stolen reporting, etc.).
- Compiles and analyzes data for management reporting and metrics.
- Create security awareness campaigns. Research proactively regarding needs and trends to anticipate and identify potential security problems/incidents.
- Engaging stakeholders to fulfill their requests (e.g. decommission request, assets decommission executions, etc.). Coordinates with other peers to research needs and trends to anticipate security problems or incidents.
- Proactively coordinating with appropriate stakeholders across Company during a security incident – management, security, operations, and others to provide timely and relevant updates to stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Analyzing cyber security incidents to solve issues and suggest improvement in incident response procedures.
- Create detailed reports and documentation of all incidents and procedures on a routine basis.
- Support the execution and monitoring of phishing simulation exercises, including user targeting, response tracking, and reporting.
- Respond to and resolve Privilege Access Management (PAM) related activities and service requests within defined SLAs using Service Now.
- The resource will be expected to develop strong relationships with teams throughout the Company and, utilizing strong collaboration and communications skills, work to further secure all of the Company’s application assets.
Required Skills and Experience
- Diploma or degree in Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCNP Security, CCIE Security, Fortinet NSE, Palo Alto PCNSE, Check Point CCSA/CCSE, CompTIA Security+ certifications are considered an asset.
- Experience supporting enterprise security operations in complex, distributed, and hybrid environments.
- Strong understanding of firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, VPN, proxy services, secure web gateways, DNS security, load balancers, and network access controls.
- Experience reviewing firewall rules, access control lists, network flows, routing paths, and security policies to identify risks, misconfigurations, and unauthorized access.
- Ability to analyze network traffic, logs, packet captures, and security alerts to support threat detection, investigation, and incident response.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, VPN, wireless security, and common network protocols.
- Familiarity with Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, least privilege access, secure remote access, and identity-aware security controls.
- Ability to document network security findings, risk statements, technical recommendations, operational procedures, and remediation actions.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, and secure configuration baselines.
- Experience participating in change management processes, including reviewing network changes for security impact and validating implementation
- Ability to work collaboratively with network, infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, and security operations teams.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Please note that while all applications are appreciated, only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
InSync Systems Inc. is a privately-owned boutique Canadian Resourcing and Consulting Services Company that works closely with a range of corporate clients across multiple industries to bring them solutions that effectively address their business needs.
