Senior Analyst, IT Security

University of Ottawa; Ottawa; Sur place; CAD 97 000 - 121 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

University of Ottawa is seeking an experienced IT Security specialist for 35 hours/week at the Main Campus. You will develop and support security systems, monitor incidents, and lead vulnerability assessments.

The role requires a university degree in CS/MIS or equivalent, 5+ years in a security-focused IT environment, and strong knowledge of SAML/OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and secure coding practices. Ontario campus, competitive salary, and vibrant IT team.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Minimum 5 years in a complex IT environment with security focus.
• Experience with identity platforms (Entra ID) is an asset.
• Hands-on security across web apps, APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Experience with SSO using SAML/OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0.

Responsabilités

• Develop, implement, upgrade, and support security systems and applications.
• Monitor logs/alerts; analyze events for incidents and remediation.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
• Integrate SAST/DAST/SSO and CI/CD security checks into pipelines.

Connaissances

DevSecOps

SSO integration

OAuth 2.0

Threat modelling

Secure coding

Vulnerability management

SSDLC

Security monitoring

Container security

WAF tuning

Formation

University degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field

Outils

PeopleSoft security

Microsoft Entra ID

WAF

CI/CD tooling

Description du poste

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

N/A

Job Family:

IT Security

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

IT Services and Infrastructure

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/10/22

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/11/02

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

Salary Range:

$96,570.00 - $120,712.00

About Information Technology:

Information Technology is a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are focused on prioritizing and optimizing technological investments that facilitate the best student experience, as well as the activities of faculty, researchers and staff. Our greatest strength are the people working with us. People like you, professionals eager to flex their intellectual muscle and achieve new heights in their career. Working here gives you access to a great IT environment, rich with a diverse range of platforms, products, and services. This is a place where innovative ideas are welcome.

In a nutshell: working here is challenging and rewarding. It'll bring out the best of you. We want people that have the drive to advance IT in higher education. We have the technologies to keep your inner fires burning, and benefits that can help you sustain a better lifestyle. And all this minutes away from gyms, the Byward Market, downtown, and the Rideau Canal at lunch time for runners and skaters.

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager, IT Security, the incumbent develops, implements, upgrades, integrates, tests, manages, and supports information security systems and applications. Performs real-time analysis and correlation of logs/alerts from a multitude of infrastructure, network, and security devices with a focus on the determination of whether said events constitute infrastructure, network, or security incidents. Responsible for researching and documenting various mitigation strategies. Provides information security education to the University community and prioritizes remediation of issues in a highly complex environment with critical uptime requirements.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Security Administration and Platforms: Implement, operationalize, customize, configure, program, test, and maintain complex security systems, platforms, and solutions using multiple technologies. Provide technical recommendations for improving IT security infrastructure and assists in the coordination of audit and compliance requirements
• Analytics and Monitoring: Monitor a wide variety of IT assets, network, and data to ensure the prevention of events that negatively impact confidentiality, availability, and integrity. Build/manage reports and analyze logs and messages to identify and report possible security violations. Collect and analyse performance reports for various systems, and report trends in hardware and application performance to assist senior technical personnel to predict future issues or outages.
• Development: Develop program code/scripts according to technical standards and security policies. Build/develop use cases for Security and/or Network Operations Centre.
• Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing: Perform ongoing vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of systems and networks to ensure compliance with security policies, standards, and procedures. Interface with IT teams on implementing controls.

What you will bring:

• University degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a complex and diverse IT environment demonstrating experience in IT security.
• Experience with PeopleSoft security would be considered an asset.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID or comparable identity platforms would be considered an asset.
• Hands-on experience in application security and DevSecOps, including security assessments of web applications, APIs, and enterprise applications.
• Experience integrating applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and knowledge of OAuth 2.0 authorization flows.
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot federation metadata, certificates, claims, tokens, and application access controls.
• Knowledge of secure coding, threat modelling, security design reviews, OWASP Top 10, API security risks, and secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) practices.
• Experience configuring and tuning Web Application Firewalls (WAF), onboarding applications, analyzing security events, managing exceptions, and troubleshooting false positives.
• Experience integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI/CD pipelines; interpreting findings; and implementing security checks and remediation workflows.
• Knowledge of container and infrastructure as code security.
• Experience with program