Cyber Security Specialist

Cyber Security Specialist #62089

About the Job:

Mindwire Systems is seeking the services of a Cyber Security Specialist for a contract position with one of our Valued Clients.

Client Location: Ottawa, ON

Working Environment: Hybrid

Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Administer and maintain the security systems and infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability scanning tools, web proxies, SIEMs, endpoint security solutions), and security services within the AWS cloud environment (AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, Trusted Advisor, IAM Access Analyzer, CloudWatch Anomaly Detection)

• Perform 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.

• Assist with the development and maintenance of the existing security policies and procedures.
• Provide recommendations for improvements to existing or new security solutions to improve overall enterprise security.
• Continuously improve and advance the IT infrastructure by assessing overall risk and mitigation effectiveness in face of evolving network attacks and threat vectors, as well as changes in industry best practices.
• Document procedures/processes/implementations for reference and knowledge transfer.

How to Apply:

Online:
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E-mail:
Please email Linda at linda.lemieux@mindwire.ca with an attached copy of your CV.

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.