Apply for Cyber Security Administrator

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is looking for a Cyber Security Administrator to manage and maintain the operational central logging system for both production and test/staging environments. This involves various tasks such as onboarding new applications/systems to cybertools, improve cyber security posture in the area of cloud, administrator tasks such as implementing snapshot restores, creating automation playbooks, handling SSL/TLS certificate renewals, perform operational support tasks such as monitoring availability, capacity, performance, storage, and security of the central logging system.

Responsibilities:

• Designs solutions to resolve system related business problems, meet user requirements, and streamline system workflows.

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives and recommends a strategy, potential solution, or "work-around".

• Monitors and analyzes systems issues and provides recommendations for all systems supported infrastructure as part of regular operations. - Provides guidance and training to less experienced analysts.

• Writes and maintains systems documentation including user and technical manuals.

• Designs, provisions and configures systems.

• Acts as a liaison between technical groups and stakeholders to coordinate the system's installation and ensure technical compatibility and satisfaction.

• Prepares documentation and defines system specific dependencies to assist in problem analysis.

• Provides recommendations for improving procedures and coordinating system implementation.

• Integrates development of best practices, standards, procedures and quality objectives across systems infrastructure or platforms.

• Maintains appropriate professional designations and up-to-date knowledge of current information technology techniques and tools.

Qualifications:

• 3 years – Working knowledge of managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Windows Server.

• 3 years – Service Management (including Incident Management and Problem Management).

• 2 years – Programming (e.g., Ruby, Java, Python, C#, Node.js) or Scripting (e.g., Ansible, PowerShell, Bash).

• 5 years – Experience in communicating and facilitating technical and non-technical discussions during client and stakeholder meetings.

• 4 years – Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

• 3 years – Cybersecurity.

• 10 years – Professional Information Technology (IT) experience.

• 3 years – Cloud (IaaS) hands-on knowledge (AWS preferred).

• 2 years – Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) service management in a self-hosted operational environment (including index lifecycle management, snapshots/restore, custom log parsing)

• OR

• Cloud Security working knowledge (in areas such as AWS Security Hub, AWS Security Lake, AWS IAM, Cloud Security Posture Management [CSPM]).

Desired Qualifications:

• CISSP or other cybersecurity certification.

• ITIL certification.

• Identity and Access Management.

• Penetration Testing.

• Data Analytics using Power BI.

• Network technologies (such as firewalls, load balancers).

• System administration of large (100+) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure.

• Configure ELK pipelines (using grok patterns and scripts).

• Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management / Exposure Management.

• Vulnerability Management.

• SIEM / Cloud Log Management.

• IoT / OT Security.

• Cloud Identity Management.

• Cloud security (AWS, Azure, and OpenStack).

• Integrating applications and systems with MFA.

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About Affinity: 

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca

Job Number: 12490

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