Security Analyst, Temporary Assignment up to 18 Months Job Details

Date: Jun 19, 2024

Location:

Pickering, ON, CA

Type of Position: Temporary

Type of Position:

Number of Positions: 1

Salary Min: $77,512.00

Salary Max:

Description:

Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand? Do you have a passion for big data and cloud computing – and know the benefit of using data to improve business practices?

Become a Security Analyst, Temporary Assignment up to 18 Months with MPAC

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario. What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day. Learn more.

Our Information Technology team works closely with each department across the business to design, build and deliver innovative solutions that help make MPAC an international leader in the property assessment industry. The way we think about technology is different, and our teams are proud to share their knowledge and contribute to meaningful, technology-enabled success stories that enhance operational intelligence and customer service delivery. We tackle complex problems collaboratively in an agile environment, and are committed to ensuring MPAC technology is consistently available, scalable, performance-based and secure. We’re a group of forward-thinking and talented professionals who stay ahead of the game by using open source technology, cutting-edge cloud computing, advanced analytics and predictive and machine learning models. Learn more at mpacspark.ca

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We take important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard. MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.

Job Description

What makes you great for this role?

You have strong research, investigative and problem-solving skills to provide operational and technical support in IT security related incidents and the measurement of IT security analytics.

We have:

A team of highly skilled, dedicated and collaborative staff to work with
Leadership that supports you
An enterprise that embraces change
A work environment that has flexible work locations (including remote), hours of work and overall employee wellness support

You have:

Diploma or Degree in Computer Science or related field
3+ years of IT experience
Technical security skills to detect and defend against cyber-attacks
Knowledge of IT infrastructure, application, network best practices and emerging trends
Knowledge of TCP/IP, IPSEC, DNS, WINS, DHCP, SMTP, NAT, Layer 2 & 3 networking
An understanding of encryption standards/techniques, and scripting languages such as Python and PowerShell for automated tasks
Strong research, problem solving and analytical skills to troubleshoot system issues

Nice to have:

Post-secondary major in Computer Security
Work experience related to SSCP, Security+, CISSP, CEH and OSCP
1+ year of IT Security experience
Practical understanding of agile methodology

What you will do:

Provide first level security support including detection of issues, incident response, remediation and prevention occurrence measures
Examine and investigate alerts, resolve configuration errors in the network or deployed software and create/update IT security documents
Escalate significant IT security issues and comply with incident response process including taking systems/devices offline to safeguard MPAC assets as directed
Assist external agencies in security testing ensuring reports are accurate and complete
Monitor and report on all IT security platforms, dashboards and systems and maintain application and system log, providing data analytics to senior team members and manager
Support business systems while adhering to security standards and practices in place as well as research new forms of best practices and provide analysis
Aid in the development and maintenance of KPI dashboards and security metric reports and conduct security vulnerability scans
Utilize scripting languages to design and implement automated repetitive security tasks.

Additional Information:

Requisition ID: 2060
Job Type: Union
Closing Date: July 3, 2024

Ready to apply?

Please note, only applications submitted through the Applicant Tracking System will be accepted.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background verification with Mintz Global Screening. By applying to this job posting, you are providing your consent to MPAC to share your name, email address and phone number with Mintz, to conduct the criminal and driver abstract check and for Mintz to disclose the results to MPAC, should you be the successful incumbent.

MPAC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and members of the public feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflect the diversity of the public and communities we serve.

Persons with disability who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may email their request to careers@mpac.ca.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Please note that MPAC prohibits employees from holding a current/valid real estate license and successful applicants must at least suspend their real estate licenses during their period of employment at MPAC as outlined in our Employee Code of Conduct.

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