Temporary Summer Student

**Posting Period**:

- Open: September 3, 2025

Deadline: September 16, 2025

Status: Temporary Full-Time

Duration: Until December 31, 2025

**Salary**: $22.00 per hour

Non-Union

**Department Name**:

- The Summer Student role is an entry level position on the Security Operations team. This position is responsible for helping support day-to-day cybersecurity operations and learning from a team that supports security initiatives across the South West Local Delivery Group (LDG) and it?s Healthcare Service Providers (HSPs).

This position offers a great opportunity to learn and participate in incident response (triage, investigate, respond, contain and document), log analysis, vulnerability management, security tool development/tuning and threat hunting. This position will interface with experienced LDG, HSP, and MSSP technical resources when required.

**The Summer Student duties include but are not limited to the following**:

- Participate in incident detection, analysis, response, containment, and post incident documentation.
- Perform log analysis, computer forensics, and proactive threat hunting.
- Develop, test, and tune custom detections and use cases/alerts.
- Utilize, administer, and support LDG security-related platforms and technologies.
- Help HSPs onboard their assets to LDG multiple security-related platforms.
- Research and keep up to date on current and emerging threats/vulnerabilities.
- Assess, communicate, and help prioritize the risks associated with vulnerabilities/threats found at HSP sites.
- Leverage automation and orchestration solutions to automate repetitive tasks.

**Qualifications**:

- Technical knowledge of any of the following traditional security technologies is preferred:

- Antivirus(AV)/Endpoint Detection and Response(EDR) - MS Defender/CrowdStrike
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) - Splunk
- Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Risk-based vulnerability management - Tenable
- Threat Intelligence platforms (TIP)
- Standards, frameworks, and regulations (NIST, ICS, PCI, MITRE ATT&CK, PHIPA, PIPEDA, etc.)
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- OSS tools
- A working knowledge of any of the following related technologies is preferred:

- Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, ESXI, etc.)
- Networking (firewalls, OSI model, NAC, segmentation, etc.)
- Development (Python, PHP, GIT, SDL, etc.)
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to balance multiple and competing priorities.
- Excellent verbal, written and listening skills, including technical documentation like procedures, playbooks, and write ups.
- Demonstrated practice and commitment to the principles of patient and family centered care
- Demonstrated practice and commitment to patient and staff safety at LHSC
- Demonstrated practice and commitment to LHSC's Vision, Purpose, and Values
- Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

**Teaching, Learning and Research**

London Health Sciences Centre is proudly one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching and research hospitals. LHSC has an unwavering commitment to lifelong learning, with education agreements in collaboration with over 55 schools, hospitals, and community agencies from across Ontario, Canada and internationally; among our many education partners, our three regional partners are Western University, Fanshawe College, and Thames Valley District School Board. LHSC provides students with a place where they can learn and discover knowledge and skills to take them forward in their careers as health care professionals. Approximately 2,900 Nursing, Allied Health and other students ranging from secondary school to university graduate level programs receive training at LHSC every year. As an employee of LHSC, you will be expected to engage in role-related teaching, professional development, and research activities in addition to standard position duties and responsibilities.

**Immunization Requirements**

Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC's Health Review requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements LHSC.

**Work Permit**

**Remote Work