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Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company

Information Security Analyst

Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company
Canada · Contract · Entry

Job Title: Information Security Analyst / Network Edge Security Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 8-month Contract
Work Type: Hybrid model- 2 days onsite, Tues and Thurs
Pay Range: C$70 - C$90/hr

Job Description
  • We are looking for someone to perform a broad range of activities while collaborating and supporting others on the Security Engineering team.
  • You will be involved in developing and deploying components of solutions with a focus on analytics, support, testing, and proof-of-concepts aligned to business and technology objectives. Think career growth potential!
  • Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager. Here's some of what you may be asked to perform:
  • Deploy new solutions for engineering programs and projects as well as deliver prototypes and proof-of-concepts aligned to business needs.
  • Create and manage and line of business SOPs and MOPs as they related to best practices
  • Analyze technical requirements and recommend pragmatic and comprehensive engineering specific solutions for your own area.
  • Work with other stakeholders to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market, and innovation goals.
  • Contribute to enterprise and business line engineering strategies and mandates.
  • Respond to routine or standard requests from internal and external customers.
  • Understand relationships between work processes and the business to ensure awareness of costs related to workloads.
  • Monitor product life cycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required.
  • Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project.
  • Participate in quality management reviews, reviews of the designs, prototypes, and other required work products to ensure they are fulfilled.
  • Deploy as-built program activities to establish details needed using configuration management processes.
  • Provide support to ensure accuracy of drawings and other technical baseline documents.

Job Requirements
  • University or Post-Graduate Degree.
  • Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering).
  • 3-5 years relevant experience.
  • Knowledge of specific domain or various engineering frameworks, technology, tools, processes, and procedures.
  • Sound knowledge of applications, systems, networks, innovation, design activities, best practices, overall business standards.
  • In-depth experience, knowledge, and skills in your own discipline.
  • Can prioritize and manage workload (under management guidance) to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
  • Solve moderately complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions

Department Overview
  • Our client Engineering covers a broad range of exercises and initiatives including requirements gathering, design specification, industry analysis, vendor engagement and analysis, software development, project management, financial management, test plans and execution, and operational standards implementation. Our highly coveted Engineers are interspersed amongst many areas of focus: innovation, design, execution, maintenance, strategy, portfolio management. We call all these things incredible learning opportunities, and no two assignments are ever the same.
  • There's room to grow in all of it.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Managing incidents
  • Troubleshooting
  • Collaborate with team
  • Certificate renewals
  • Documentation

Must-Have:
  • Security analyst background- 5 years
  • Networking
  • DNS
  • Firewall experience
  • Managing incident/troubleshooting

Nice To Have:
  • Experience CDN WAF
  • BOT protection

Note:
  • Hard worker/communication skills
  • Networking/ DNS/ Firewall experience
  • Doesn’t need to be a banking background for the role

Experience & Education:
  • University or post-graduate degree
  • Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
  • 3-5+ years relevant experience in the IT infrastructure engineering domain with at least 2 years related to tooling of security controls and platforms
  • Experience in the financial vertical (especially large tier 1/2 banks) is desirable

Key Technical Competencies:
  • Full OSI stack understanding and experience in network controls:
  • L3/L4 technologies - routers, switches and DDoS prevention tools and the role they play in securing network traffic
  • L7 - Application layer protocols and how to secure traffic associated with L7 applications (HTTP and APIs for web applications)
  • Functional knowledge of the role of Firewalls in securing and segmenting network zones and traffic.
  • Intermediate understanding of application proxies such as F5, specifically in load balancing and securing traffic between Origin servers and Cloud based services
  • Deploying/ Operating advanced network tools such as packet sniffers, Network Intrusion Detection/Protection platforms and similar.

Desirable Experiences and Skills
  • Scripting / Programming Skills: Python, REST API integration
  • Experience with CDN (Content Delivery Networks), WAF (Web Application Firewalls) (i.e. EdgeCast, Akamai, etc.)
  • Web application development, especially with integration with Mobile apps and in Financial Space.
  • Site Reliability Engineering experience a plus.
  • DevOps/DevSecOps backgrounds
  • Understanding of JavaScripts and SDK (Software development Kits) is an asset

About The Company:
  • Top 10 bank in Canada and North America offering comprehensive financial solutions. Providing retail, commercial, wealth management, and wholesale banking services, we help clients thrive in today's evolving market.
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prototypes firewalls configuration management firewall switches routers python cloud dns
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Posted
Feb 12, 2025
Type
Contract
Level
Entry
Location
Toronto

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