Province: Alberta

Cyber Security Analyst

Permanent Full-Time

Open to any location in Canada (ability to work from your home office)

Open Until Filled

Annual Salary: $73,730 – $101,378

Innovation Federal Credit Union has a bold ambition. In addition to being Canada’s newest Federal Credit Union, we will be the most digital, member-centric organization in our industry. We are on a journey to embrace the core tenets of the digital business model, like ideation, the network effect, personalized segmentation, coopetition, and agile ways of working.

We come to work to simplify banking for all Canadians – that’s our purpose.

How does this position help fulfill Innovation’s purpose?  Glad you asked!

Reporting to the VP Information & Cyber Security, the Cyber Security Analyst will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating security threats in real-time. The Cyber Security Analyst is highly skilled at incident response, investigation and mitigation related to the organization’s security posture. This resource will have a strong focus on ensuring all alerts are monitored and investigated. This resource will use a proactive approach to improve the organization’s overall security posture, including alerting, investigations, playbooks, and controls.

WIIFY (what’s in it for you):

• Competitive Salary
• Diverse and Inclusive Culture that continues to evolve
• Flexible work arrangement options
• Strong benefit package
• 7% Superannuation matched contribution program
• Attractive variable incentive program
• Wellness Days to create appropriate work/life balance
• Paid Education opportunities to ensure our members have the most equipped staff to help them
• A purpose-driven organization that focuses on the values of Accountability, Integrity and Respect
• And lots more reasons to love where you work and what you do!

What our team is looking for:

• A growth mindset that emulates Model, Coach and Care behaviours in every activity and approach
• A solution mindset that feeds inertia
• An ambassador willing to promote our team inside and outside the organization.
• Somebody who is digitally capable and wants to dig into new technology with enthusiasm!
• Somebody who can work with occasional ambiguity with a focus on process evolution.
• A mindset of Solve, Serve, Sell – a problem solver, serving our members directly or indirectly, and selling our brand!
• Somebody to sweat the small stuff, but also see the big picture.
• Personality and Energy – a flair for polish, and you bring your personal, creative touch to everything you do!

What will you do?

• Assess information risk and facilitate remediation of identified vulnerabilities with the network, systems and applications.
• Triage security events and incidents.
• Report on findings and recommendations for corrective action.
• Perform vulnerability assessments as assigned utilizing IT security tools and methodologies.
• Perform assessments of the IT security/risk posture within the IT network, systems and software applications, in addition to assessments within the Vendor Management Program.
• Identify opportunities to reduce risk and document remediation options regarding acceptance or mitigation of risk scenarios.
• Review, investigate and resolve security incidents.
• Identify gaps through threat hunting and security reviews.
• Create security playbooks to document steps required through the mitigation of security threats.
• Identify areas for improvement in the alert management process and create efficiencies to address them.
• Provide weekly project status reports, including outstanding issues.
• Promote awareness of applicable regulatory standards, upstream risks and industry best practices across the organization.
• Analyze server and network technical requirements and IT services, provide recommendations for improvements to meet security best practices.

Some things that would impress us:

• 4+ years’ experience working in an Information Technology environment.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or related certification.
• Advanced skills and/or certification in cyber security principals, ITIL Foundations, and COBIT Governance.
• Advanced skills and/or certification Microsoft Enterprise systems.
• In depth knowledge of M365 Security, Microsoft Azure Security, Windows Enterprise environments, Windows operating systems.
• Experience in administering IT security controls in an organization.
• Knowledge of technical infrastructure, networks, applications, and systems.
• Strong understanding of adversary tactics and techniques including the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Strong blue team skills including system security, system auditing, threat intelligence, incident handling and detection.
• Excellent customer service qualities, exceptional communication and organizational skills, attention to detail, and project management skills.

Interested?

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Innovation Federal Credit Union acknowledges that Indigenous peoples are the traditional guardians of this land that we call Canada.  In Saskatchewan we are on treaty lands and these treaties serve to govern our relationships with Indigenous people.  We are dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of Reconciliation and treaties are honoured and respected.