Security Technology Analyst

Date Posted: 10/06/2026
Req
Faculty/Division:
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department:
MedIT
Campus:
St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number:
Existing Vacancy:
Yes

Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.

MedIT provides information technology support for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Our mission is to partner and collaborate with clients, University, and third parties to determine value based, sustainable technology solutions that enable the Faculty to achieve its academic mission.

As Security Technology Analyst, you will be responsible for implementing, tuning, and scaling advanced security technologies and AI tools to protect Temerty Faculty of Medicine systems, data, teaching, research, and administrative activities. Working closely with the Manager, Information Security, you will monitor multifaceted security data streams, proactively neutralizing threats through coordinated incident response, vulnerability management, and supporting incident response investigation. You will contribute to the secure and reliable operation of security technologies by working with vendor-specific platforms and tools such as firewalls, endpoint detection and response solutions, security information and event management systems, configuration and policy management systems, vulnerability management platforms, AI tools, and identity and access management technologies.

You will prepare technical evidence and reporting, automate repeatable workflows, execute approved remediation activities, and collaborating cross-functionally with IT and University security teams to reduce risk and strengthen security operations.

• Configure, tune, troubleshoot, and maintain security technologies, including but no limited to SIEM/security monitoring tools, endpoint protection and EDR/XDR platforms, firewalls, configuration management systems, vulnerability management tools, identity and access management technologies, log collectors, and related integrations
• Analyze security events and alerts, correlate activity across multiple tools and data sources, and provide initial assessments, trends, recommendations, and escalation information
• Operate and support vulnerability scanning and assessment tools; schedule scans, review results, validate findings, and help identify affected systems and owners
• Perform initial triage and investigation of security alerts and suspected incidents, gather relevant logs, sensitive information, and technical evidence, assess potential sensitivity of impact, and escalation information
• Process account provisioning, access modification, suspension, and deprovisioning requests through approved workflows, ticketing systems, and identity management platforms
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and improve security operations, access management, vulnerability tracking, incident response workflows, and operational reporting

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field, preferably Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum four years relevant work experience in information security, security operations, SOC analysis, threat analysis, vulnerability management, identity and access management
• Significant exposure to information security practices, information risk assessments, security controls, operational security processes, or…