Security Consultant

Mindlance; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindlance is seeking an experienced data center network security specialist to support a healthcare-sector customer account in Canada. You will work in client environments, handle Palo Alto firewall operations, and apply SDN and micro-segmentation concepts to protect critical PHI/PCI DSS data.

The role requires strong incident resolution within SLA, collaboration with senior IT staff, and ongoing audits and reporting to ensure security architectures evolve with application needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a data center network security role.
• Palo Alto Next-gen firewall administration.
• PHI or PCI DSS compliance or equivalent experience.
• Threat assessment tools, intrusion detection and SIEM (Splunk).

Responsibilities

• Day to day work in client environments.
• Communicate easily with senior client IT personnel, front-line client IT personnel and coworkers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer support incidents within the SLA paying special attention to customer satisfaction.
• Palo Alto firewall operations and administration.
• Monitoring operations and proactive administration or threat prevention for hosted security infrastructures.
• Capacity and Performance Management
• Change Management
• Maintain and develop network security architecture to keep pace with the application performance and security requirements
• Work on audits and reports for customer environments

Skills

Data center security

Palo Alto next-gen firewall

PHI/PCI DSS compliance

Threat assessment tools

Intrusion detection tools

SIEM (Splunk)

Education

Post-Secondary degree in Computing Science or related

Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator

CISSP

Tools

Palo Alto firewalls

Splunk

Job description

This individual will have broad exposure to data centre network security technologies to support a customer account in the healthcare sector. Technical experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Software Defined Networking and micro-segmentation, threat assessment and intrusion detection tools is required. Experience working in successful, high growth organizations will be a plus. On call support and some flexibility in work hours will be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Day to day work in client environments.
• Communicate easily with senior client IT personnel, front-line client IT personnel and
• coworkers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer support incidents within the SLA paying special
• attention to customer satisfaction.
• Palo Alto firewall operations and administration.
• Monitoring operations and proactive administration or threat prevention for hosted
• security infrastructures.
• Capacity and Performance Management
• Change Management
• Maintain and develop network security architecture to keep pace with the application
• performance and security requirements
• Work on audits and reports for customer environments

Technical Skills:

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a data center network security role.
• Palo Alto Next-gen firewall administration
• Personal Health Information (PHI) or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS)
• compliance or equivalent experience.

Experience with the following technologies is required:

• Threat assessment tools
• Intrusion detection and analysis tools
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), e.g. Splunk

Educational Requirements:

• Post-Secondary Business or Computing Science degree/diploma (or equivalent work
• experience).
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator
• CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Mindlance is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, equitable, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, and work environment in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). We will be happy to work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process. We use AI in our Hiring processes.