Security Analyst

Hakkōda, an IBM Company; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Canada Limited - IBM Canada Limitee is seeking an Infrastructure Specialist: System Administration to deliver 24/7 cloud and security operations from Ottawa. You will build and maintain cloud apps, infrastructure, and networking, ensuring resilience and secure operations.

The role emphasizes security architecture experience, hands-on IaC with Ansible/Terraform, and collaboration with DevOps teams. A Canadian government clearance and ITIL certification are required.

Qualifications

• . 10+ years in security architecture or senior infrastructure roles.
• Must have Public Sector exposure with Government of Canada clearance.
• Experience configuring and managing security areas for multi-tier environments.
• Ability to facilitate security workshops.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions and security operations.
• Build, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Ansible and Terraform.
• Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments across Windows, Linux, Unix.
• Identify and resolve API, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and network infrastructure issues.
• Produce regular service management reports and ensure DR and failover readiness.

Skills

Security architecture

ITIL

Cloud/Infrastructure administration

SIEM

PKI

Citrix Thin-Client architecture

Education

ITIL Certification

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Citrix Thin-Client

SIEM

PKI

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. As an Infrastructure Specialist: System Administration, you will provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless operations across various applications, DevOps, middleware, security, and infrastructure components. You will play a critical role in building, setting up, and maintaining cloud applications, infrastructure, and networking. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Ensure Seamless Operations: Provide 24/7 technical support for cloud-based solutions, identifying and resolving technical problems, and installing software updates and fixes to ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Develop and Configure Infrastructure: Build, set up, and maintain cloud applications, infrastructure, and networking, including developing and configuring infrastructure and configuration as code using Ansible and Terraform.
• Manage Cloud Applications: Administer Dev, Test, and Production environments hosted on Windows, Linux, and Unix servers, and ensure cloud elasticity by auto-scaling resources based on business requirements.
• Identify and Resolve Issues: Identify and resolve issues involving APIs, application services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, microservices, containers, Kubernetes nodes, ICP management, middleware components, network, security, and infrastructure problems.
• Provide Service Management Reports: Provide regular service management reports to keep clients informed, and manage Application ID, ensuring DR and manual redundancy failover capabilities. The position is for a Senior Security Analyst or Architect with over 10 years of relevant security architecture experience and expertise in implementation and or in service support to join an exciting opportunity. A current and valid Government of Canada Secret clearance is required. Requires a minimum 18 months of project duration in the last 60 months, supporting a solution which is comprised of two (2) or more integrated software applications in a virtual 3 tier (UI, Logical and Data layers) or greater environment/platform, and leverages a) Citrix Thin-Client architecture, b) Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and c) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Requires demonstrated experience configuring and managing Security areas, for a minimum of 3 years.
• Experience working in Canadian Federal Government or with an eco-system partner on a previous contract/project.
• A valid/current VCR.
• Ability to facilitate security workshops.
• An ITIL Certification. Canada Software Engineering Professional Ottawa, CA (0026) IBM Canada Limited - IBM Canada Limitee