Senior Analyst, IT Security

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Replacement of a regular position

Employee

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IT Security

1

IT Services and Infrastructure

Main Campus

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2026/06/09

2026/08/23

35

Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

$96,570.00 - $

About Information Technology:
Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services.

This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager, IT Security, the incumbent develops, implements, upgrades, integrates, tests, manages, and supports information security systems and applications. Performs real-time analysis and correlation of logs/alerts from a multitude of infrastructure, network, and security devices with a focus on the determination of whether said events constitute infrastructure, network, or security incidents. Responsible for researching and documenting various mitigation strategies.

Provides information security education to the University community and prioritizes remediation of issues in a highly complex environment with critical uptime requirements.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Security Administration and Platforms: Implement, operationalize, customize, configure, program, test, and maintain complex security systems, platforms, and solutions using multiple technologies. Provide technical recommendations for improving IT security infrastructure and assists in the coordination of audit and compliance requirements
• Analytics and Monitoring: Monitor a wide variety of IT assets, network, and data to ensure the prevention of events that negatively impact confidentiality, availability, and integrity. Build/manage reports and analyze logs and messages to identify and report possible security violations. Collect and analyse performance reports for various systems, and report trends in hardware and application performance to assist senior technical personnel to predict future issues or outages.
• Development: Develop program code/scripts according to technical standards and security policies. Build/develop use cases for Security and/or Network Operations Centre.
• Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing: Perform ongoing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of systems and networks to ensure compliance with security policies, standards, and procedures. Interface with IT teams on implementing controls.

What you will bring:

• University degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a complex and diverse IT environment demonstrating experience in IT security.
• Experience in application security, People Soft security, Web Application Firewall technologies, security applications, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Knowledge of secure coding, vulnerability management, OWASP Top 10, and secure software development lifecycle principles.
• Ability to collaborate with developers, technical teams, and business stakeholders to identify application security risks and support remediation activities.
• Experience implementing and supporting large-scale, end-to-end information security systems in a multi-platform environment.
• Experience with security technologies such as various monitoring and log aggregation platforms (Splunk is an asset), penetration testing frameworks, operating systems, vulnerability scanners, and endpoint security solutions.
• Knowledge of various programming…