Information Security Specialist

SKaaS

Canada

On-site

CAD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A tech company in Canada is seeking an Information Security Specialist to enhance email security and conduct incident investigations. This role requires deep knowledge of Mimecast, including 3+ years of experience administering its environment. Candidates must also have strong problem-solving skills and experience in threat analysis. The position offers a competitive contract in the IT services industry.

Qualifications

3+ years administering Mimecast environment with 100s of policies.
Experience in threat analysis and investigation.
10+ years in technology, including 6+ years in information security.

Responsibilities

Administer Mimecast and enhance email security.
Perform incident triage and investigate attacks.
Identify and mitigate security threats efficiently.

Skills

Mimecast tool expertise

Cofense Triage & Vision

Email header analysis

Incident triage and investigation

Windows OS server infrastructure knowledge

Proficient communication skills in English

Strong problem-solving skills

Tools

Mimecast

Cofense Triage & Vision

Regex

QRadar

Splunk

Job description

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Base pay range

CA$60.00/hr - CA$65.00/hr

Ascend Learning, LLC (www.ascendlearning.com) is a global leader providing online education, assessment, remediation, certification, and e-learning solutions for the post-secondary academic market specifically serving the nursing, allied health, sports medicine, public safety, and the financial services industries. Ascend employs more than 900 employees in 35 states. Ascend's portfolio companies consist of Jones and Bartlett Learning, ATI Nursing Education, the National Healthcare Association, ExamFX, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Boston Reed, Advanced Informatics, and ClickSafety.

Required skills:

Mimecast tool expert, 3 years+ experience administering Mimecast environment with 100s of policies, in-depth understanding of Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection (TTP) policy configurations, and email analysis.
Cofense Triage & Vision, 3 years+ experience building automated playbooks and workflows, in-depth understanding of threat analysis and investigation, including forensic analysis, root cause identification, and response recommendations.
Proficient in email header analysis for enhancing email security, with expertise in identifying and mitigating threats through detailed examination of header information. Skilled in detecting anomalies, tracing email origins, and understanding routing paths to prevent phishing and spoofing attacks.
Strong experience & skills performing incident triage and investigating attacks, malware, and suspicious activity at a process, command, and code-level.
Strong Windows OS server infrastructure knowledge
Technology experience 10+ years, 6+ years of information security
Excellent English communication skills (written, verbal, and comprehension)
Confident, energetic, driver, leader mentality
Extremely detail-oriented
Passionate about information security
Good Judgement
Proactivity
Advanced problem solver

Experience

Working in a SOC or providing incident support for a security team
Leading multi-team incident investigations
Experience identifying and mitigating web application attacks, C2 beaconing, and/or DPL/Data Exfil.
Log/protocol analysis, writing RegEx, and experience efficiently analyzing and sifting through thousands of logs to quickly pinpoint/identify suspicious activity.
Experience with searches in a SIEM (like QRadar or Splunk) and/or an EDR (like Carbon Black, CrowdStrike Falcon).
Threat hunting in core security tools

Tool Experience

Mimecast experience and expert skills are mandatory.
Cofense Triage & Vision are strongly preferred.
Regex is required.
Experience administering other email security tools is a plus (O365, Proofpoint, Checkpoint Harmony).

Seniority level