Security Analyst

Job summary

Provide 24/7 technical support and maintain secure cloud applications, infrastructure, networks, and Dev, Test, and Production environments. Configure infrastructure as code, resolve issues across cloud and security components, manage failover capabilities, and provide service management reports to clients.

Job details

Introduction 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. Your Role And Responsibilities 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. Preferred Education Master's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise 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. Preferred Technical And Professional Experience 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.

What you’ll do

Provide 24/7 technical support and maintain secure cloud applications, infrastructure, networks, and Dev, Test, and Production environments. Configure infrastructure as code, resolve issues across cloud and security components, manage failover capabilities, and provide service management reports to clients.

Requirements

Requires over 10 years of relevant security architecture experience, a current Government of Canada Secret clearance, and at least three years configuring and managing security areas. Also requires at least 18 months of recent project experience with integrated applications using Citrix Thin-Client architecture, SIEM, and PKI; a master's degree is preferred.

Listed skills

• Kubernetes · Preferred
• Windows · Preferred
• Linux · Preferred
• Terraform · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Security Architecture
• Security Configuration and Management
• Cloud Infrastructure
• System Administration
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Windows
• Linux
• Unix
• Security Information and Event Management
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Citrix Thin-Client Architecture
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code
• Disaster Recovery
• ITIL

Job areas

• Security & Safety
• Technology
• Consulting
• Government & Public Sector

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