Security Analyst - Hybrid

Advantages
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Responsibilities
System Security (70%)
•Acquires and maintains a comprehensive understanding of the university's technology and information systems, including internal and cloud / externally hosted systems.
•Responsible for participating in the development and maintenance of institutional security policies, procedures, and guidelines.
•Ensures IT systems security through monitoring, secure access, control, and security evaluations.
•Responsible for planning, implementing, and upgrading security measures and controls for university systems. Researches, recommends, and installs appropriate tools and countermeasures.
•Establishes protocols to protect data and information systems against unauthorized access, modification and/or destruction.
•Anticipates and investigates security threats, alerts, incidents and disasters and reduce their likelihood.
•Analyzes security threats and breaches to determine their risk / root cause, brings to the attention of senior IT leadership, and provides thorough post-event analysis and reports.
•Performs and/or coordinates vulnerability testing, risk analyses and participates in security program assessments.
•Conducts and/or coordinates security audits of internal systems and externally hosted (cloud) systems.
•Develops and/or maintains security awareness and other IT security training programs. Acts as the advocate of good security practices on campus.
•Mentors fellow employees in security awareness and procedures.
•Part of a team responsible for management of network intrusion detection and prevention systems.
•Implements, configures, maintains, and monitors security and information event logging solution(s).
•Coordinate security plans with outside vendors.
•Maintains an in-depth knowledge of security technologies through formal training, seminars, and self-directed study.
•Tracks industry trends to ensure that the University is taking advantage of new security technology where appropriate.
Project Participation (10%)
•Participates in the development of project plans for complex systems implementations.
•Participates in the development of budget estimates for technology infrastructure projects.
•Participates in the development of RFP requirements for project implementation.
•Participates in the evaluation of RFP responses to identify optimal technology solutions.

System Recoverability (5%)
•Participates in IT disaster recovery and business continuity development, planning and testing.
•Participates in the protection of the University's IT assets through the maintenance and management of reliable backup systems, procedures, and processes.
•Where applicable, performs and tests backup and restores to ensure that systems and data are recoverable in the event of data loss.
•Maintains an in-depth knowledge of data protection technologies through formal training, seminars and self-directed study.

Planning (5%)
•Conducts research and evaluation of systems hardware and software to determine value and support development efforts.
•Participates in identifying requirements and proactive solutions to technology challenges.
•Participates in the development of project plans, budget estimates and RFP requirements for complex, institution-wide systems implementation projects.
•Participates in the evaluation of RFP responses to help identify optimal technology solutions.

Support (5%)
•Supports end users in the use of centrally managed IT systems.
•Assists advanced support for MIS and Desktop Support teams with systems infrastructure issues.

Supervisory (5%)
•May acts for Team Lead when required.
•May supervise student staff.



Qualifications
A university degree in Information Systems, Computer Science (preferred) is required. 
Minimum of 5 plus years of hands on experience
Strong verbal and written communications as well as time management and organization skills. 
Able to build strong relationships with team members, clients, and external parties.

Summary
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Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.