Newfound Recruiting
Job title:
Security Analyst
Company
Newfound Recruiting
Job description
Looking for your next opportunity? Our Client is currently looking for a Security Analyst to join their team in Montreal!If you are looking for a new challenge, professional growth and fulfill the following qualifications, this is a role for you!RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitor banking sources of potential security incidents, health alerts with monitored solutions, and requests for information. This includes monitoring real-time channels or dashboards, periodic reports, email boxes, help desk or other ticketing system, phone calls, chat sessions
- Follow incident-specific procedures to triage potential security incidents to validate and determine necessary mitigation measures
- Escalate potential security incidents to Level III and IV engineers, implement countermeasures in response to others, and recommend operational improvements
- Maintain accurate incident notes in the case management system
- Maintain awareness of the bank’s technology architecture, known weaknesses, the architecture of security solutions used for monitoring, imminent and pervasive threats identified by customer threat intelligence, and recent security incidents
- Constantly improve the service by identifying and correcting problems or gaps in knowledge (analysis procedures, plays, customer network models), false positives, identification and recommendation of new or updated tools, content, countermeasures, scripts.
- Conduct peer reviews and consultations with other Level II analysts regarding potential security incidents
- Serve as a subject matter expert in at least one security-related area (e.g., specific malware solution, python programming, etc.)
- Actively seek self-improvement through continuous learning and advancement to a Level III analyst
- Provide shift status and metric reporting
- Weekly support for 24×7 coverage
- Adhere to internal operational security and other customer policies
- Perform scheduled light work
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3+ years working with technologies such as SIEM, ELK, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and data leakage protection (DLP).
- Experience in alert handling, triage, correlation, and escalation.
- Familiarity with ELK (Elastic Search) or SPLUNK solutions.
- Proficiency in ticketing systems like ServiceNow or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with anti-virus software, endpoint detection response (EDR), firewalls, and content filtering tools.
- Strong knowledge in incident response, log analysis, and PCAP analysis.
- Solid understanding of network fundamentals (OSI Stack, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), SMTP).
- Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish (a strong plus but not mandatory).
- Prior experience in the banking sector is a significant advantage.
NewFound Recruiting is a Canadian professional services company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, and is one of Canada’s leaders in professional staffing and recruiting. Currently, NewFound Recruiting is servicing clients across Canada, having established relationships in Ontario (Toronto and Ottawa), Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland. By applying innovative techniques, we match the right candidate with the right position. Our 20 years of industry experience give you the assurance that we will provide the right answers to your difficult questions.At NewFound, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to our success. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. All employment at NewFound is based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. NewFound welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities, and we will provide reasonable accommodations, accessible formats, and communication support upon request during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at [email protected].
Expected salary
Location
Montreal, QC
Job date
Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:05:42 GMT
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