Snr Security Vulnerability Specialist to creation departmental vulnerability management program Job Calgary area,Alberta Canada,IT/Tech

Position: Snr Security Vulnerability Specialist to support the creation of a departmental vulnerability management program.

Our valued client is looking for a Snr Security Vulnerability Specialist to support the creation of a departmental vulnerability management program.

1 Full time & 1 Part Time (~10 days/month) position available

Responsibilities:

Complete tasks directly supporting the creation of a departmental vulnerability management program.

Following GC guidance, including but not limited to Government of Canada Guideline on Vulnerability Management.

Document and implement vulnerability management capabilities, including but not limited to:

Governance

Understanding business dependencies on IT assets

Identification of vulnerabilities

Vulnerability risk assessment

Mitigation activities

Metrics, reporting and compliance

Identify threats to, and technical vulnerabilities of, networks, systems and applications; technologies include but are not limited to Azure Cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), Third Party SaaS Services, IoT/IC, AI/LLMs (both self-hosted and as-a-service) as well as on-premises solutions.

Collaborate with clients IT Services providers to implement and review vulnerability report data sources.

Centralize Vulnerability Management reporting and correlations using technologies such as but not limited to Azure Power Platform, Sentinel, GraphAPIs, etc.

Create processes and procedures to identify, manage and coordinate vulnerability management activities.

Must Have

Skills:

10+ years of experience, within the last 15 years, performing IT Security Vulnerability Assessments (VA)

2+ years of experience, within the last 5 years reviewing, analyzing, and/or applying department-wide IT Security Vulnerabilities for Government of Canada (GoC) organizations:

Threat agents, analysis tools and other emerging technologies including privacy enhancement, predictive analysis, VoIP, data visualization and fusion, wireless security devices, PBX and telephony firewall.

War dialers, password crackers.

Public Domain IT vulnerability advisory services.

Network scanners and vulnerability analysis tools such as SATAN, ISS, Portscan & Nmap.

Wireless Security.

Intrusion detection systems, firewalls and content checkers.

Host and network intrusion detection and prevention systems - Antivirus management.

Working as a vulnerability specialist on a minimum of two IT security Projects for a
** Large Government, (Federal, Provincial. Territorial, Municipal, or Crown Corporation) or a Large commercial client performing at least 3 of the following tasks across the referenced projects:

Performing vulnerability testing, risk analysis and security assessments.

Understanding various programming language environments and attaching simulations scenarios including performing vulnerability assessments on high virtualized environments.

Understanding and implementing security policies and safeguards.

Conducting analysis with network scanning and monitoring tools.

Conducting impact analysis for configuration changes and patch management.

Conducting internal and external IT security audits and,

Recommending appropriate tools and countermeasures to mitigate IT security vulnerabilities.